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Kevin Judd's 'Party Rock Anthem' Halloween House-Display Banned by HOA {AOL Real Estate}
Oct 25th 2012 7:49PM This is fantastic! I want one of these for my neighborhood. Seriously.
This is what talent looks like. I'm actually going to sign this with my first name: Bill
Squatters in Littleton, Colo., Couple's Home Refuse to Vacate Despite Judge's Ruling {AOL Real Estate}
Jul 31st 2012 8:31PM Here's the deal: You arm yourself. You wait until all the occupants are out of the house. You enter, one way or another. You change the locks, you occupy the house and don't leave. You wait for the squatters to return. But they can't enter, becuse you've changed the locks. If they cross the threshold, or enter in any other way, it's defined as a home-invasion and you now can use deadly force to prevent it.
Tips for flying cheaper in 2012 {Gadling}
Feb 10th 2012 10:29AM Actually, this is not true. Here's a first-hand story, from the days before TSA put ziploc bags at inspections. So . . . I don't have a ziploc bag, and I left a little 50 ml bag of some funky French "scotch" (can you believe it!) in my carry on. TSA found it and confiscated it, both of us joking about the notion of "French scotch", me bemoaning its sorry fate. So anyway . . . my wife and I are eating sandwichs purchased from a deli, before we board. And lo and behold the sandwiches are in ziploc plastic bags. So I go back to the TSA guy and I wave the bag at him and he points to the wastebasket. There is my little bottle of scotch in the bottom with all the other trash. I plucked it out and off I went.
Tips for flying cheaper in 2012 {Gadling}
Feb 10th 2012 10:22AM The typical little bottle of booze is 50 ml, about 1 1/2 oz. We've brought these small bottles a number of times through TSA with no problems -- they just have to fit inside the ziploc bag with all your other stuff. Jack and Coke, or scotch and soda etc are thus easy to come by at about 1/2 the price.
The Half-Marathon of Doom {Fanhouse Backporch}
May 2nd 2010 9:30PM Advice from an old guy who can no longer run:
My most animal of all experiences was running in a warm rain. Take off your shirt. Now you're just wearing trunks. Rain dripping off your hair into your face, sweaty greasy skin... My god I miss it. More animal than sex. Now I bicycle in the rain, but it isn't the same (bicycling in the rain is dangerous, running is just pure animal). . . (think the Oliva-Newton song).
Here's to you for completing the run! Now the trick is to get some enjoyment out of it. Here's my thoughts: if you're going to run and for some reason feel the need to compete (why? but that's another e-mail) then train for 2x the run you really want to run, i.e. 6k to "train" for a 3k. (Don't let anyone cajole you into longer races. And when you run the 3k remember, it's a race, you'll burn. But you'll want to smoke the other guy/gal.). Trust me: life is short. Use your body. Shock the monkey. Enjoy the animal. Enjoy it. Enjoy it, enjoy it, enjoy it . . .
Most Annoying Airline Passengers Ever {Lemondrop}
Dec 19th 2008 2:17PM (1) Litte kids kicking the back of my seat. Finally you turn, but the parent is oblivious to you and their kid.
(2) I did this one, I was the passenger from Hell: I bought one of the box lunches that happened to have juicy pears; I opened the foil top and the nitrogen fill of the little container, now-pressurized by the low cabin pressure, caused the juice to spritz the guy next to me. Sucked to be him, but I was in the middle, and it sucked to be me too. I apologized but all's I got was a humphf.
(3) I know they (baby) can't help it, but the crying baby, all the long, long redeye from Boston to LA.
(4) I hate the sound of shuffling cards. I think it's because it reminds me of sitnky cigarettes and vile cigars and nasty day-old whiskey-soaked sweaty Las Vegas losers.
(5) People who are mean to the flight attendants. Mean passengers in general. I once witnessed some particularly mean, arrogant fur-coated passengers from a foreign land south of the US boarder get theirs -- they were met at their arrival by some kind of air marshal types.
Did 'Sesame Street' Ruin Generation X, or Save It? {News Bloggers}
Nov 20th 2007 6:18PM Doesn't Disney own these characters? If so, that may explain what this is all about: $$. In case someone doesn't know what those symbols mean, it means 'money' translated: Whatever pleasures the 'sponsors' (also known as 'those who pay the bills') pleasures the commercial entity known as 'Disney.' I could get bitter about the 'Christian right' and all those who 'pay the bills' by buying their palp-as-product, but if I push this too far this message will be purged.
