On the outskirts of London yesterday, Led Zeppelin completely and utterly destroyed the rock landscape for the first time since I was a little lad. I was not there. I thought I would be okay with not being one of the supremely lucky 20k people who were on the inside but reading the reviews, viewing […]
Delightedly this past Saturday, the 4th day of Channukah, 5768, I was given gifts, which, upon further reflection after many minutes of glee, seem to be items one would attribute to a geeky 15 year old. I don’t even care – they are so friggen cool. Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy is […]
Maybe its because I have to go to Atlanta for the day (!) on Thursday but I am finally posting this helpful travel info that I found while on the island of Lanai in Hawaii. I don’t think enough people to read this blog (yet) to blow these “secrets” – I’m sure more people read […]
If you love to connect to the net for free and you spent time in NYC, then CBS’s announcement that it will be developing a CBS Mobile Zone, a free Wi-Fi network for laptops and other wireless devices, in the heart of the Big Apple should make you very happy. This zone will cover the […]
I am not going on any nautical excursions in the near future. Instead, I am proudly announcing that MyFootballClub has entered a deal in principle to take over Ebbsfleet United Football Club, affectionately known as “The Fleet.” What this means is that I, along with the approximately 20,000 current MyFootballClub members, will own an equal […]
Is Google outsmarting everyone?. It is quite possible. Financially, the $2k that I didn’t invest in Apple in 2003 and the $2k I didn’t invest in Google when it debuted are worth around $25k total right now. Apple has gone up about 10x since when I thought about buying it and Google has gone up […]
When watching and listening to the clip below, I just kept envisioning Rob Schneider’s character from Necessary Roughness announcing the game. This clip has gotten so much press that the NYT wrote about the student announcer Jonathan Wiener (who did a fantastic job keeping up with the frenetic action on the field). In case you […]
Halloween originated from the Pagan festival Samhain, celebrated among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. That is why the pic below (which I carved last night) is called a Jack-O’-Lantern. It can be traced back to the Irish […]
When a frequent reader sent me a link to a Hello Kitty Assault Rifle yesterday, I knew immediately I had to post it. Its just so damn cute: The gun comes from a site called GlamGuns which is full of ridiculous guns, like the gun above and one called “My Little Carbine.” Lovely. Before you […]
Economics professors have a standard game they use to demonstrate to their students how apparently rational decisions can create a disastrous result which they call a “dollar auction.” As you read on, keep the whole Iraqi war debacle in mind. Here is how the “dollar auction” works: a dollar is offered for sale to the […]