I’m a web developer from Pittsburgh, PA. This is my tumblog.Tumblr (3.0; @markbalt)http://markbaltrusaitis.com/<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kdkVKMND7cQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/22839904727http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/22839904727Fri, 11 May 2012 09:46:42 -0400<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/19mZ5JkKers?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/21379930230http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/21379930230Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:56:12 -0400““When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second-best time? Today.””<br/><br/> - <em>Old proverb via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/opinion/why-trees-matter.html">Why Trees Matter</a></em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20972993339http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20972993339Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:12:57 -0400<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/top-soccer-players-are-seen-to-have-superior-brain-function.html">Soccer Players are Smarter</a>: <p>Soccer players have been shown to have superior executive functions, the brain processes responsible for planning and abstract thinking.</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20849220403http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20849220403Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:28:00 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m27zmmb8fE1qm9rypo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://siphotos.tumblr.com/post/20782641426/mikel-arteta-of-arsenal-top-left-shoots-past" class="tumblr_blog">siphotos</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Mikel Arteta of Arsenal (top left) shoots past Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart to score the only goal of the match during Sunday’s Premier League match between Arsenal and Manchester City in London. Arsenal won 1-0. (Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)</p></blockquote>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20840331561http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20840331561Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:23:12 -0400“Hope is the thing with feathers”<br/><br/> - <em>Emily Dickinson</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20204953372http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/20204953372Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:48:49 -0400“Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth.”<br/><br/> - <em>St. Augustine</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/18739346767http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/18739346767Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:55:35 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m07smcyuFZ1qzrq77o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m07smcyuFZ1qzrq77o3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m07smcyuFZ1qzrq77o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>New Riverhounds soccer stadium coming to Station Square in Pittsburgh. <a href="http://www.riverhounds.com/home/589776.html">via</a></p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/18554342192http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/18554342192Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:32:00 -0500“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”<br/><br/> - <em>Oscar Wilde</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/18494820490http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/18494820490Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:56:35 -0500<object width="512" height="288"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/jkhTo1tEGY3YoASwN2XNIA"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/jkhTo1tEGY3YoASwN2XNIA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="225" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Favorite Portlandia sketch because it happens all the time.</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/16208494465http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/16208494465Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:01:25 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxl8vqYtwm1qzrq77o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Tearin’ it up</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/15620009215http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/15620009215Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:11:50 -0500“the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages”<br/><br/> - <em>Thoreau <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/opinion/sunday/the-joy-of-quiet.html">via</a></em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/15034320962http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/15034320962Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:03:03 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwz8vs7sEO1qzrq77o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>If You Have A Body, You Are An Athlete. -Bill Bowerman</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14982187090http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14982187090Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:04:40 -0500“Absurdly, I haven’t yet got around to saying that football is a wonderful sport, but of course it is. Goals have a rarity value that points and runs and set do not, and so there will always be that thrill, the thrill of seeing someone do something that can only be done three or four times in a whole game if you are lucky, not at all if you are not. And I love the pace of it, its lack of formula; and I love the way that small men can destroy big men (watch Beardsley against Adams) in a way that they can’t in other contact sports, and the way that the best team does not necessarily win. And there’s the athleticism (will all due respect to Ian Botham and the England front row, there are very few good fat footballers), and the way that strength and intelligence have to combine. It allows players to look beautiful and balletic in a way that some sports do not: a perfectly-timed diving header, or a perfectly struck volley, allow the body to achieve a poise and grace that some sportsmen can never exhibit.”<br/><br/> - <em><em>Fever Pitch</em> by Nick Hornby</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14977401293http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14977401293Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:13:57 -0500“I don’t have no sports car And I don’t even care to have one I can walk anytime around the block”<br/><br/> - <em>Bob Dylan <em>Bob Dylan’s Blues</em></em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14315447126http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14315447126Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:23:05 -0500“Only dead fish follow the stream.”<br/><br/> - <em>Finnish expression</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14183455825http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/14183455825Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:30:47 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvquvjzSDl1qzrq77o1_r1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>In memory of Sócrates. Medical doctor, painter, journalist and fellow 6’4” tall soccer player.</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/13786191617http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/13786191617Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:47:00 -0500“Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. … Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts”<br/><br/> - <em>Henry David Thoreau</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/13514957993http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/13514957993Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:17:22 -0500<a href="http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665514/little-printer-delivers-a-daily-personalized-newspaper-the-size-of-a-sales-receipt">A Newspaper For The Twitter Age: The Size Of A Sales Receipt, And Edited By You</a>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/13511188159http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/13511188159Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:54:29 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luv4xx6dOE1qzrq77o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Neato</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12969417736http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12969417736Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:41:57 -0500