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I Need.

I Need.

First things first: sod the iPhone. Yeah, you read right, forget about it. Stop saving 10-percent of your pay-packet every month, don’t sign 18 to 24 months of your life away to Cingular, think laterally, not with the crowd. Helio [...]

Drink Up

Drink Up

“Truth is, I’ve always been thirsty” -Ed Bloom, Sr. – Big Fish Even back when a sip of my Dad’s wine would make me spit fire in the backyard, I loved beverages. I would ask my parents to buy me [...]

How Captain Kangaroo Got to Australia

How Captain Kangaroo Got to Australia

This Day In History:March 27, 1977 – Poorly spoken English caused the worst airplane accident in history on this day: the Canary Islands Crash. Hot on the heels of Fox News’s hi-larious Daily Show ripoff comes Conservapedia. I guess I [...]

Ways in Which Giant Brand Baby Carrots Are Nothing Like Giant’s Organic Baby Carrots (or Babies, for that matter)

Ways in Which Giant Brand Baby Carrots Are Nothing Like Giant’s Organic Baby Carrots (or Babies, for that matter)

they’re covered in random pockmarks they’re covered in random white patches that don’t wash off they’re pretty cheap Fun fact: Did you know baby carrots were invented in 1986?

Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature

My boss gives better presents than your boss

My boss gives better presents than your boss

Last week was a great week for presents. Nicco came bearing gifts: –Ditto Diet, the Safeway equivalent of…well, it’s billed as “lemon lime” but clearly tasted like Ginger Ale. –bling stickers for my cellphone. My phone’s pretty old and pulling [...]

25 Signs That You Have Grown Up

We stumbled across this while checking out Scribd at work today.  Haven’t decided yet whether Scribd is a cool online library or, as Tom put it, “finally, a way to publish a document on the Internet”, but regardless, a fun [...]