July 2010

  • Zirh Introduces a Booze-Soap Line

    By becksta on 7/30/10 12:02am
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    Long Island Ice-Tea SoapLong Island Ice-Tea SoapAt the end of a long, hard night drinking out on the town, it’s likely that you will have at least some alcohol on your body, your top, your jeans,  your purse, your man-bag, your Iphone, your Ipad, or whatever else you might happen to have with you. If you aren’t going out, however, and would like to pretend that you’ve been out for a wild night on the town in order to impress your friends, you can now use Zirh’s booze-inspired scented soaps.


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  • Sacramento, California - Alive with Musicals!

    By colormejosh on 7/28/10 8:50pm
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    The capitol city of Sacramento, California comes alive during the summer with the California Musical Theater and Music Circus back to back musical productions.


    One of my personal favorites Oklahoma! is currently playing (July 27 - August 1).

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  • Hooray! Too Many Stupid Toys!

    By msarko on 7/26/10 6:27am
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    life after IP Address Doomsdaylife after IP Address DoomsdayPut on your party hats, pop the cork on that bottle of Dom Perignon, tell your boss to go consummate his relationship with his fountain pen and break out that emergency reserve of cocaine-dusted hookers because we've hit an Internet milestone. Well, at least we're about to. In just a few months (by current estimates from very estimate-y people) we're going to run out of IP addresses. For all ya'll who live out in the sticks, that means we're short on the numbers, dots and magicals that make the glowy think-box work. That's right, while there is a functionally infinite variety of domain names for use on the Internet, there's a very limited number of meaningful device addresses that actually allow your computer to access all that porn and pirated music, and probably some business-related stuff, too.



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  • Tell an Old Joke Day

    By sarajean on 7/23/10 9:38am
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    Tomorrow, July 24, is the day everyone gets to sigh with collective relief because they don’t have to come up with new jokes to entertain people with. Okay, maybe those of us who aren’t comedians don’t really lose sleep over such things, but there is a joy in recycling old jokes, isn’t there?

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  • Travel Pro: Airport Check-In

    By msarko on 7/22/10 10:23pm
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    Over the past decade American air travel has become a pretty daunting task. What was once a mode of luxury and leisure has become a heavily trafficked and frequently esoteric experience. There's a ritual to making it through airport security smoothly and a number of ways to avoid the most common headaches of traveling by air. Here are a few tips for becoming a real pro of the plane experience.



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  • Hot Weather Drinks

    By msarko on 7/8/10 8:18pm
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    It's hot. It's damn hot. It's summer, so that means there's little to do in the off hours but sweat and long for air conditioning. It's hard to get into a mood for booze when there's so much heat outside. Never mind that alcohol actually drops one's core body temperature, just one nip will bring on a little too much mercury for these dog days. So, how can you get away with downing the fire water when it's blazing in the shade? Well, you can dip deep into the classic cocktail book or you can get creative.



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  • Bourbon: A True American Spirit

    By msarko on 7/4/10 1:35pm
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    Today is Independence Day in the United States, a holiday when we yankee folks recall our country's successful bid for autonomy from our colonial rulers in the English crown over 200 years ago. It's a day to celebrate liberty and all the things we love about our nation. While there are a lot of things to appreciate about America (its dense cross-section of different cultures, its unparalleled contribution to the art of film and its varied landscape to name a few), one of my personal favorite things about our sovereign union is its most popular native liquor: Bourbon whiskey. A lot of cultures have a unique variety of whiskey to their claim and it's for that reason that America has bourbon today. Many of our 18th century immigrants were of Scottish and Irish descent, so they brought their craft for whiskey making with them to these shores. There's a very interesting history to just how bourbon became the whiskey Americans know and love today. It involves war, two great historical figures and a staple of American agriculture.



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