In mid-January, the Wall Street Journal analyzed the actual amount of play time of the average football game. They added up the amount of time the ball was actually alive and in play in four different games, and it averaged out to about 11 minutes. They concluded that the average game broadcast on TV shows 17 minutes of replays and 67 minutes of players standing around. With the biggest game of the year coming up, I decided to do my own analysis of the actual play time.
After more than 40 years, Heinz has updated the ketchup packet. The new packet allows both squeezing and dipping, will cost a little bit more, and will hold three times as much ketchup.
No one seems to know if you can put them on the floor, stomp on them, and get them to shoot all over your friends.
Reading the ramblings of Sleep Talkin’ Man remind me that while I don’t talk in my sleep, I sometimes say and do things in that weird, semi-conscious state between sleep and full, wide awake, consciousness…things that are strange and strangely related to the context of the waking environment…and most times, things that I would never say or do if fully awake. For example, I was once awakened by a ringing telephone on my nightstand at 4:30 a.m., and I went all Maxwell Smart and tried to answer a shoe which was not far from my bed. I remember trying to hit the answer button on the bottom of my shoe, holding it up to my ear to talk, and being perplexed as to why it was still ringing. It took about 30 seconds before I realized what I was doing, but by then it was too late to answer the real phone. Another time, I incorporated my dog’s nails clicking on a linoleum floor near my bedroom into my dream as rain hitting the window, shot up out of bed, and tried to close the window to prevent the rain from coming in.
And it can be worse when there’s someone else there.
I have a standard spiel where I tell overnight guests that they should just ignore anything and everything, good or bad, that comes out of my mouth for the first five minutes after I wake up, especially if I’m awoken suddenly by an alarm clock, an inadvertent kick, etc.
Tracy did not heed my advice.
The Times has a profile of Ernie Anastos, the NYC anchor who’s infamous for the “Keep fucking that chicken” slip. On page three of the article, he addresses the faux-pas, and maintains that he said, “Keep plucking that chicken”.
Months later, he said that he is certain he said “plucking,” but that pretending it did not happen would have been a mistake. “If you keep saying, ‘I didn’t really say that,’ it doesn’t sound right,” he said. “This is New York. That particular word is practically ‘hello,’ the way it is used.”
Smart girls don’t need to tell you they’re smart. They just do smart shit.
Apple introduced the hotly anticipated “iPad”, which is basically just a giant iPhone or iPod touch. I, and I think it’s safe to say that most people, wanted the below:
There is one “feature” that I find interesting…apparently, the 3G service from AT&T will be month-to-month, non-contractual, and can be activated or deactivated at any time from the device itself. Oh, and it’s SIM unlocked, so you can put any SIM with a data plan in there.
(is it just me, or does the name “iPad” sound like some sort of technologically advanced tampon?)
Mint.com explains how some companies prey on the poor.
On secured credit cards:
Basically, you assume all the risks and are charged fees for doing so. Or to put it another way: you lend money to yourself, and if you don’t pay yourself back, you get charged a fee by some company in Delaware.
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
The world’s oldest light bulb has been burning for 109 years, and is still going.
The longest time the Guinness World Record-holding bulb has ever been turned off for is just a week.
The bulb has it’s own web site, including a live video of the bulb that isn’t all that exciting.
Because it’s so hard to convey sarcasm in email/IM/SMS/etc., a firm has created a “SarcMarc”, or sarcasm punctuation mark.
Paul Sak of the firm said that the new punctuation mark was not a gimmick and had serious potential applications, such as allowing deaf people to pick up sarcasm in subtitles.
They want $1.99 for the little mark. Seems like the irony mark would work just as well (and is free).
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Husband talks in his sleep; wife writes it down and posts it on the Internet; Josh almost pees his pants.
My vision of hell is a lentil casserole.
Mine too.
A photo blog called, “Running From Camera”.
The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.
Netflix won’t offer new releases from Warner Brothers on DVD or Blu-ray until 28 days after they go on sale. In return, Netflix will get access to more of WB’s catalog for streaming over the Internet.
I’m not sure why people are upset over this. The only movies I buy are movies that I know I will watch over and over and over again—so-called “Josh’s classics”—and Hollywood produces maybe one of them a year. If there’s a movie that I want to see that I didn’t see in the theater, why would having to wait 28 additional days entice me to go purchase it? It took me 3+ years to get around to seeing “The Last King of Scotland”, and I really wanted to see that one.
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