As I’m sipping my dark chocolate orange tea that I got at the holiday market from the nice, attractive French man last week, I remembered I had picked up a few ideas for gifts that I thought I’d share with you all. Continue reading
Product Reviews
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Earlier this year, women of childbearing age were thrown into a mass panic when OB tampons vanished from the shelves of North America.
Women were angry.
We are angry no more, because of this.
Use it wisely, friends. You can only play it once per computer.
If you’re going to be buying the iPhone 4S, it’s probably time to evaluate what kind of deal you’re going to get by signing a new contract. With three carriers now, people actually have a choice if they want to get involved with Apple’s baller marketing/demon magic team. Here’s a quick breakdown of the three carriers and who you should go with if you are free to choose. Continue reading
The other day I was perusing the aisles of my local Home Depot and when I glanced over at one of the shelves, I was suddenly hearing the power chords of Black Sabbath’s Crazy Train inside my head.
I reached tool nirvana on Saturday afternoon, my friends, when I spotted what has to be the greatest piece of hardware ever made: the gloriously named FatMax Xtreme Fubar.
First of all, the FatMax Xtreme Fubar is 100% forged fucking steel. It weighs like 15 pounds. It has a THICK coated rubber handle for grip and it is painted in fluorescent hi-viz yellow. This thing is so fucking punk rock. And it only does one thing well: BREAK SHIT. Continue reading
If you were given the choice to replace a limb or an organ with a prosthetic that functioned exactly the same way, perhaps even better, would you? Would you give up your arms to get replacements that could lift incredibly heavy items and punch through concrete? Would you give up your legs to run faster and jump higher? Would you give up your eyes to see through walls and in the dark?
This is the fundamental question that the Deus Ex series, including the latest installment Deus Ex: Human Revolution, asks the player. What happens when humanity is suddenly given the opportunity to become more human than human? Continue reading
When I forked over the $205 to Amazon for the Hauppauge HDPVR high definition television to PC recorder, I thought two things: “I hope it’s worth it” and “How the hell do you pronounce Hauppauge?” I found out the answer to both questions this week when my recorder died after 22 months of otherwise perfect operation.
Before Crasstalk came along, I spent most of my free time working on MythTV. I don’t care for the DVR service that the cable providers are offering. The monthly fees are a part of it, but that the menus on those provider DVR units are also full of ads is unacceptable. There are already ads during the content, product placement ads in the actual shows, they even shove ads in with my monthly billing statement. MythTV is partially an act of defiance on my part. I want at least some control over the content stream coming into my home. Continue reading
Perhaps it’s the drugs.
Lately, I’ve been having as least one very vivid dream each week. When I awaken, I can remember the details so well that I actually have to question whether or not I actually did teleport myself to Chicago where I met up with an ex who then took me to Joseph Arthur’s house so we could crash there for the night.
Yeah, maybe it is the drugs.
Then, there was the dream where my co-workers and I had to move offices to a more crowded floor, but first, we had to go to a concert in an amphitheater. I can easily remember walking through the grass towards the stage and waiting for the band to perform. There was even an instance in the dream where one of the guys from the band recognized me.
Drugs are good! Mmmkay?!?
No matter their subject, I can’t complain about the dreams, actually. My physical life isn’t nearly as exciting, so I’m glad at least one part of my brain is firing and making sure I have a good time somewhere.
After spending the last 6 years of my adult life using the Farberware my parents got for their wedding as my cookware I finally decided to by my own pots and pans. Morale at the Firm has been pretty low this year (we had layoffs last year and it wasn’t handled well) so they decided to throw money at us this Christmas to make us happy again. I decided spending some of that money on beautiful French copper pots & pans would ease the pain.
I was right. Good lord I love this cookware. Mauviel – hand made in France by the same family for 130 years – a brilliant copper sheen glowing in my cupboards.
I would probably have sex with it if that were physically possible.
Stay tuned for a regular cooking post featuring the best my kitchen has to offer!