Month: August 2011

Robots Makin’ Za

photo credit: Ian Muttoo via photo pin cc

There is no doubt that commercials have been getting weirder and weirder the past few years, I imagine trying to catch the “youth demographic” or something like that. I have no problem with this, in fact if a commercial seems truly clever or original then I’ll give credit where credit is due. I caught this… Continue reading Robots Makin’ Za

Tumblr

I’m a bit of a fiend when it comes to social networking. Without any real need, I pretty much sign up for every site there is. First I had to have Facebook and MySpace accounts and from there it all snowballed: Last.fm, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger, Google+… All the nonsense I could get my hands on.… Continue reading Tumblr

Rangtang

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I was a the bar the other day, drinking a beer, and looking at the various vodkas with Laura Miner. She noticed that, strangely, both Belvedere and Grey Goose had similar bottles—frosted glass with an image on the back-inside. We wondered who was copying who, so I decided to look them up on Wikipedia. Belvedere… Continue reading Rangtang

One Year In (Stand-up Comedy)

Today marks my 1-year anniversary of being a stand-up comedian. Not that I needed it, but Facebook even helped remind me by posting an “On This Day In 2010” status for me. It was in Worcester at the now defunct Orlando’s Comedy Jam. I was there to record Ryan Staples‘ set so he could submit… Continue reading One Year In (Stand-up Comedy)

Words That Lose Friends

I’m an avid player of Words with Friends, a Scrabble-like game for smartphones and Facebook. The trick to the game is not really having a big vocabulary, but more so to have absolute understanding of all the world’s short and somewhat cheap words (I’m looking at you, “qi.”) Recently I stumbled across the word “za,”… Continue reading Words That Lose Friends