If there’s one thing the Internet is obsessed with at the moment (besides endless debates on poorly covered real news), it’s articles and quizzes either predicting your age or telling you what your current number of years lived means. For instance, I never knew, until […]
Touring ‘solo’ to give a healthy taste of his first ‘solo’ album, Blunderbuss, and the new one Lazaretto, Jack White offered his fans an interesting taste of a whole studied persona. At times, a calculating pop denizen up there with the eclectic likes of Beck, […]
Bring A Plate made me question myself. It’s not because the issues they mull over are thought provoking or that they play hosts to esteemed guests with skyrocketing IQs. Oh no, quite the opposite in fact. As I have mentioned before, podcasts stir strange emotions […]
Well, it’s taken a long time and a lot of money, but scientists may have just finally discovered that men and women share emotions as well as likes and dislikes. Even when it comes to (*gasp*) porn! Sorry to hit you with the hard facts […]
Teaching the other day, I asked a very basic music question, but received a deeply troubling answer. To my students I inquired, “Have you listened to an entire album through in the past month?” Only two of the twelve responded with a “yes,” the others […]
Every worker bee, whether their particular toil involves laying bricks or shuffling papers, has her or his own way of killing (and creating) downtime at work. Some folks hang around the water cooler talking sports or politics, others might spend a little extra time on […]
IPA glass clean and dry status: check. Bottle opener ready: check. Thirsty tongue status: good. Sobriety status: 100% and in need of serious remediation. Commence cap pry-off and pour: Commencing. Status on dynamic pressure for maximum head efficiency: Increasing x-axis angle of neck to 75 […]
Let’s face it, running is a pain in the ass. Sure, once we’re in shape it gets easier and more enjoyable; endorphins make us feel better, and the constant activity can get us more confident about our bodies. That’s all great and all, but that […]
One of the nicest things about technology is that it makes your life so much more bearable, even if you’re sometimes forced to travel to the boonies to make your crust. A good example would be my recent trip out to the culture-deprived nether lands […]
Do you ever spend your time reading and procrastinating on random websites when you should probably be working? * Waits for the irony to fully sink in * Me too! In fact, it’s a pretty standard practice for the vast majority of civilized society. And […]
America’s greatest gift to the world is not its Peace Corps or its advanced agriculture, medicine or technology. No! It’s armaments. Weapons sales by the US tripled to a record high of US$66.3 billion in 2012, the Congressional Research Service said in its most recent […]
Single again and back in the dating world. But where to begin? I have been off the market for almost three years now. I don’t know any single and attractive men so I thought it would be fun to try one of the many dating […]
The image of China as the world’s industrial estate, thick black smoke from factory chimneys cloaking villages, towns and cities alike, has never been stronger. The race to become the world’s next superpower has taken on a grimly apocalyptic hue, with other nations such as […]
A whole bunch of happy jackasses of my general acquaintance were in their element on Facebook, ecstatic that an already convicted sex offender was arrested in Houston, Texas on Sunday August 3, 2014, after “Google flagged images of child abuse found in his gmail account” […]
It is not Anti-Semitic to criticize Israel. It IS Anti-Semitic to irrationally hate on Jewish people. Jews are NOT killing Palestinians. The State of Israel is killing Palestinians. Judaism, to my mind, is a faith not a nationality. That Israel is largely populated by Jewish […]
In a move that has set the world of Tech blogging on fire on Wednesday July 30, 2014, Xiaomi’s eternally twitchily nervous but enthusiastic CEO Lei Jun introduced the Mi4 to an unsuspecting world. Within hours, a worldwide mass of techies was pulling no punches […]
If you’ve ever been to Ikea anywhere in the western world, you know one thing very well: It’s going to be a taxing day. You’re going to buy a bunch of stuff, some of it very necessary, some of it not, but it might be […]
A friend of mine once said, “Every man should experiment with his facial hair at least once in his life.” Although I’m not convinced he had the latest Instagram flower beard fad in mind (seriously, guys covering their chin bushes in blooms and posting pictures […]
Game of Thrones has taught us a great many things. The first being non-attachment, because thanks to George R. R. Martin, no one will ever love fully again for fear of losing the object of said love. But I’m not talking about that. I’m talking […]
Epic Meal Time, the insanely popular YouTube sensation that has everyone on the Internet clamoring for bacon, has leveled up their business from online videos to a television show on the network FYI. Their new show, Epic Meal Empire, which began airing on July 26th […]
