I’m a web developer from Pittsburgh, PA. This is my tumblog.Tumblr (3.0; @markbalt)http://markbaltrusaitis.com/<object width="400" height="225"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/jkhTo1tEGY3YoASwN2XNIA" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><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://29.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://30.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://29.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://27.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<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltxp5qy1ad1qzrq77o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>My Halloween costume</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12160342037http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12160342037Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:20:14 -0400“One of the great things about sport is its cruel clarity; there is no such thing, for example, as a bad one-hundred-metre runner, or a hopeless center-half who got lucky; in sport, you get found out.”<br/><br/> - <em>Nick Hornby <em>Fever Pitch</em></em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12147625729http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12147625729Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:14:05 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltucslgpaK1qzrq77o1_r1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>Best designed crest in American soccer.</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12082749603http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/12082749603Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:00:00 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls7mjpuuin1qzrgkpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://colourbomb.tumblr.com/post/10751662051" class="tumblr_blog">colourbomb</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>“Capturing the bear in its natural habitat” by Matte Stephens</p></blockquote>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/11447801447http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/11447801447Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:57:00 -0400“The benefit of death is you know not to waste life living someone else’s choices.”<br/><br/> - <em>Steve Jobs</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/11144464983http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/11144464983Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:11:00 -0400<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrzac97Mau1qzrq77o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Grapefruit whiskey sour <a href="http://brooklynsour.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/cardamom-tea-cakes-grapefruit-whiskey-sours/">yum</a></p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/10555951954http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/10555951954Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:48:09 -0400<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/science/20dawkins.html">A Knack for Bashing Orthodoxy</a>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/10441440475http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/10441440475Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:42:11 -0400<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrqiv5FY9R1qzrq77o1_r1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Sara and I at the Fulham game.</p>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/10372241531http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/10372241531Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:13:00 -0400“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”<br/><br/> - <em>Thoreau</em>http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/9588534831http://markbaltrusaitis.com/post/9588534831Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:33:44 -0400