the average person's blog

I've never felt older than when we were on vacation last year and I saw this group of teenage kids covering RATM's Bulls on Parade, and I realized they probably thought it was classic rock. I mean, that's not even from their first album.

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You're pretentious.

I am too.

It's because we own iPhones.

But now there's a way to allay some of that pretentiousness: A very cool app called Do Good. It's completely free and the basic idea is that it gets people doing at least one good thing a day.

Take a minute and check it out. The rest of the world will thank you.

Why do I have to pay for shit? Not shit in general, but shit the word. And 'fuck', 'damn' and 'bitch' too. I imagine I'm paying for a lot of bitches.

For some reason Apple wants me to pay 2 dollars, or 25% more, for the explicit version of Kanye West's debut album.

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Costco sells some wild, random stuff, especially on their website. For example, last month I was searching online for a composter I had seen in their store and came across a section where you could buy individual solar panels (e.g.

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My brother has been known to play a practical joke or two. As a testament to both his devotion to practical jokes and his poor execution of them, he has a permanent scar on his arm from a time when we were camping and he quietly snuck off into the woods, circled around behind the camp, ran up behind us growling like a bear, tripped and fell into the fire.

So you can understand my skepticism when he sat up from the backseat of the car and started hitting me on the shoulder yelling "Fire! Fire!"

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According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt the average blog has one regular reader. That person is the blogger, of course.

If you're a blogger, that probably isn't ground-breaking news to you. But when I read this I was overwhelmed with pride, because apparently tapb has twice as many readers as the average blog. First there's me - that's one. Then there's my wife - and that's two (woohoo!)

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Today the Mrs. and I were discussing why noone has tried training dogs to be crossing guards. If seeing eye dogs can help people across busy streets, it doesn't seem like that much of a stretch. She thinks it's because they are to small and would be hard to see. I think it's because no one would respect them.

My wife and I were discussing an important matter this evening. Imagine you are the Pope's PR person and you're tasked with picking a memorable toll free hotline number. What would it be? 1-800-THE-POPE ? 1-800-POPE-GUY ?

1. It felt shorter than it was. I'm not sure if this was because of good writing or because the industry standard seems to be getting longer.
2. One of the best gags occurs at the very beginning of the movie. Make sure you get there on time.
3. The animation had a lot of depth and the colors were very bright. In this sense, seeing what amounted to an extended length Sunday night episode on the big screen added a lot to the experience.
4. Who would have guessed that Lisa was a horcrux?

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I've found it! The sure cure for hiccups is Chloraseptic. It makes sense as a hiccup is a reflex action and Chloraseptic is a numbing medicine but a scan of the net shows it doesn't seem like the connection has been made before. Next time you get the hiccups give it a try and let me know if it works for you.