Water Cooler Economics

While trying to recover from yesterday’s House Boat party, I came across a number of interesting economic articles that probably will make good water cooler talk with your coworkers this week.

1. Fashion designers don’t want Snooki, of Jersey Shore fame, to be associated with their brands. So, they are sending their competitor’s bags [...]

100% Annoying

My mom is a big fan of Sun Chips. They are her go-to chips. For nearly the last year, Sun Chips come in a 100% compostable “green” bag — that is as loud as hell. Have you ever been around one of these bags? It’s ridiculous. Her cat usually runs scared to the other [...]

Leg Wrestling

I’m at a cabin this week outside of Eau Claire, Wisconsin with 30 of my closest maternal relatives. Part of the festivities this evening was leg wrestling. My father made me promise that when I (in blue) leg wrestled my brother (in white), no matter the outcome, the clip would go on to my [...]

Bad to the Bone

I thought I’d share an interesting sight from my trip back to Minneapolis yesterday. A little yappy dog just standing (not tied down or anything) on the second seat of motorcycle behind a big, bad Hell’s Angels wannabe going 75mph down the highway:

The dog was barking a lot, but it didn’t seem [...]

Lawnmower Man

I just got my new iPhone 4.

I was testing out some of the video recording (because my old iPhone 3G never had it). And I wanted to see how it would perform in low light. Since I’m home this weekend, and my dad was out mowing the lawn at 8PM, I figured [...]

Baltimore’s Finest

Oh, good ol’ Baltimore. How I miss you so…

A fan, not even trying that hard, is able to run around the Orioles field last night and avoid Baltimore Police for 2+ minutes before he finally gives up from bordem? Sounds about right.

I have a few competing theories as to why [...]

Open Up

Update: Here’s the really small pool I was talking about. We all pretty much had the same ideas. I’m sure we’ll all be equally as wrong by the end of the weekend…

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The British Open kicks off tomorrow. I’m in a small little pool with a handful of people. We have to [...]

Paul Bunyan Gets a Vuvuzela

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It’ll never end.

Quite literally, the buzzword of the last few weeks has been vuvuzela. I know a handful of friends that have even bought them, for some ridiculous reason (Uncle Trey won’t know what hit him this weekend). They are turning up at baseball games in the States, and I even saw [...]

Flaming Jesus

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A small victory for atheists yesterday?

…lighting struck and burned down a 62-foot-high Jesus Christ statue…valued at $300,000.

A lightning rod of controversy…

From Cincinnati.com: Lightning, fire destroy ‘Touchdown Jesus’ statue on I-75 in front of Solid Rock [...]

Coffee Spill

(A big thanks to Emily bringing this wonderful little parody to my attention.)

If you haven’t been keeping up on the BP’s response to the oil spill, this should catch you up quickly:

We are f*cked.