Thanks to Snopes I found FreeRice. You can improve your vocabulary and donate rice to the hungry at the same time. The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen. This is regular advertising for these companies, but it is also something more. Through their [...]

My wife picked up four of these Grāpple Brand Apples at the grocery store. She raved about them and told me that when I got home I’d have to try one. I opened the blister pack and was hit with the sweet smell. It was indeed reminiscent of grapes. These start life as Fujis and [...]

So I know you’re all waiting with bated breath to hear how my birthday weekend was. Well it was a bit of a mixed bag, but good overall.

“Trendy” name aside, zpizza is awesome. I just had lunch there and dined on their Napoli pizza. A great thin crust, just a little chewy, topped with a schmear of garlicky sauce, good mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil hit the spot. The chain (website here) started out in “the art colony of Laguna Beach, California, where [...]

I just saw a commercial that painted Hellman’s as being good for you because it’s all natural. Kudos for the ouevos that that took on the part of the ad agency. Here’s a flash, arsenic occurs in nature too.

Words fail me. SupersizedMeals.com – The Deep Fried Bacon Cheese Dog

The contents of any given vending machine are rarely as fresh as they could be, so in spite of the fact that The Wonder Pizza – Pizza Vending Machine sounds like a good idea on the surface, I’m not sure that it would work that well. If I want a slice that bad and nothing [...]

No, not like white and nerdy. Tonight I wax poetic about things from which neither light nor your tastebuds will escape.

This is my new coffee maker and it rocks the hizzy. My old Grind-n-Brew bit the dust and so I dropped some Christmas cash on it. What’s the big deal?

I do so love these interweb quiz thingies, especially when they appeal to my inner (and outer)geek.