When you want to sell a car sometimes you need just the right person to present the product to the consumer. This has brought us instant classics and some commercials that take time to recognize their genius. Let’s take a look at the greatest automotive presenters that pitched us some of the best and worst cars. Continue reading
Travel
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Most airlines will let you donate miles to charities. It’s not tax deductible, but if you have no use for the miles, they’re going to expire or you just feel like they could be put to better use by a charity than by you then you might want to donate. Continue reading
Having ridden 15,000 miles along the Pan-American Highway from the Arctic Ocean down to the Tip of South America by bus since 2007, I have my packing down to a science. The key is to carry only one backpack. This minimizes the chances of your belongings being stolen or lost.
So what do I bring? Let’s start with food.
Since 2007, I have been traveling the length of the Western Hemisphere, incrementally, by bus. The trips have, for the most part, followed the Pan-American Highway, which stretches from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, next to the Arctic Ocean, down to Ushuaia, Argentina, in Tierra del Fuego. I am 90% done, having held out Colombia until the peace process with the FARC rebels is a done deal. Here, I will share pictures from this journey, from north to south. Enjoy. Continue reading
Well, if you’re like me, you’re having a really hard day dealing with the bankruptcy of one of the world’s best catalogs to ever make its way down the shitstream from God’s trash can on the crap ferry to hell. SkyMall. Continue reading
In 2015 everyone has rage about the concept of manspreading. There are those who think anyone who manspreads is not only a rude jackass who revels in splaying his junk in an apparent display of superiority, but who is also attempting to suggest to you, unexpecting female train rider, that you should not only behold all that is magnificent about male genitalia, but be so threatened by the glory of every man’s significant crotch circus that you should swoon and feel a bit faint just by being in its presence, if not fearful of its magnitude. All the while, pro-spreaders say simply, “Dude, my balls get hot if confined, so I need the space to keep things loose and moving ‘down there.'”
So who’s right, and more importantly, how do we solve the problem if indeed there is one. Continue reading
The last leg of my trip took me north along the Mediterranean and then inland. Continue reading
The leg of my trip that took me into the Israeli (and a bit of Jordanian) desert. Continue reading
Jerusalem is a city of striking contrasts. Continue reading
I have watched a lot of movies where Americans visit in a foreign country, run into serious trouble, and inevitably go to the American Embassy for help. Usually these are in war or action movies where people fear for their lives, but even so, such movies have I think, instilled in my imagination an unrealistic picture of what an embassy, and particularly the American Embassy can and can’t do. A recent (actually on going) experience in a foreign country, lets call it Bangladesh Pleasantville, made me realize how truly naive I am about how helpful the embassy would or could be for its citizens (well in my case I am a permanent resident with an American family). Continue reading