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July 12, 2008

$8/gallon gas is good for America

Much like everyone else, I too am feeling the pinch due to gas prices. But as a person that always hated huge ass SUVs (you have 2 kids…you don’t need a full size Yukon for them to be comfortable!), I must admit that I am somewhat happy to see gas prices on the rise. Much [...]

June 7, 2008

Weird Japanese Gadgets

Everyone knows the strangest things come from Japan. Here are some recent strange ass Japanese inventions that are out there.

This fascinating little noisemaker, called the Magical Water Princess, is used in female restrooms to mask the unpleasant (or for some strangely erotic - think 2 girls 1 cup) sounds that come from the gastrointestinal system. [...]

May 27, 2008

Car Dealerships - The New Marketing Guerrillas?

As some of you may know, I’m a marketing nerd. I always like seeing innovative new ways of trying to sell something to your target audience. Now there are very few corporations that really innovate to attract you to their product in a new and different way. I blogged a little while back ago (in [...]

May 19, 2008

Criminal Fat Ass Given 2000 calorie per day diet; sues

The below story was taken from the Smoking Gun. This fat ass is finally getting a reasonable caloric intake for once in his life and he’s going to sue for it. Welcome to obese America!
Accused Killer In Calorie Beef
Down 105 pounds, obese inmate sues jailers for “lack of nutrition”
APRIL 27–Meet Broderick Laswell. Since his [...]

May 19, 2008

75 Skills Every Man Should Know

I saw this and completely agreed. I know a good many of these yet not all. I especially agree with #s 12, 21, 24, 41 and 52.
Source: http://www.esquire.com/features/essential-skills-0508
The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master

A man can be expert in nothing, but he must be practiced in many things. Skills. You don’t have to master them [...]

May 3, 2008

Sportmanship Lives

Although I have no written a blog on sports yet, I am a huge sports fan. Particularly of football and futbol. One thing however that consistently disappoints me about most professional sports is that the lack of courtesy and respect involved for those playing the games and/or the game themselves.
When sports reaches any type of [...]

April 20, 2008

Idiocracy

It came to my realization that although I have a category on my blog named Idiocracy, it’s likely a large percentage of my readers have no idea what I mean by that. Idiocracy was a movie made by Mike Judge (of Office Space fame) that was released a couple years ago. And since I’ve watched [...]

March 30, 2008

Those Swedes sho’ kno’ how ta make dem greens!

Just something funny that I saw in our local Weis Supermarket this afternoon. I was not aware that yams, collard greens, fish frys and sweet potato pie was so European. Despite how European Sylvia looks, I’m think there was a mistake here.

March 21, 2008

Heaven, Hell and the Funerals in between

I am a huge StumbleUpon user and I am generally amazed about how this little add on to Firefox can pick out some of the most poignant sites to present to me. Understandably, I have fed it several thousands of thumbs up and thumbs down so it probably knows me better than I know myself. [...]

March 15, 2008

Great tool for Amazon users - Free Shipping!

One of the great things about Amazon is that they have an extensive selection and that a lot of their stuff qualifies for free shipping if you order more than $25. The thing is because their prices are so good, especially on CDs, books andDVDs,  you can sometime end up buying a couple items but [...]