What I learned today...

The cure for a caffeine high

2007-07-20T20:23:00.000-04:00

Looks like I'm almost out, bummer. If you ever need to chill out from drinking too much coffee at work, have some red wine (bottle or a single glass works)

My brother the cartoonist

2007-07-20T12:20:00.000-04:00

I never knew this, but this morning I learned that my brother Andy writes his own comic strip. I always thought he linked it from somewhere not knowing he actually created it. He posts them on his blog The Daily Grind

Real Guitar > Fake Guitar

2007-07-19T20:11:00.000-04:00

So my girlfriend made me buy Guitar Hero II a while back after she played it at some party. I thought it would be fun to see how it compares to playing a real guitar having played for around 10 years. Doing the career mode was pretty cool at first. I got through easy and medium without really having to practice the songs at all. Anyone can do that. So then comes the hard level. Maybe I just suck at it because I had to practice for about 45 minutes on the very first song to even pass it without getting booed off stage. That brings me to my conclusion....

WTF mate?! Why am I spending 45 minutes practicing on a fake guitar just to learn one song?! Seriously.... Lesson for the day: Slowly step away from your xbox, wipe off your sweaty palms, and pick up your actual guitar and learn an actual song. I know it sounds crazy but you'll thank me in the end. Who knows, it might even get you laid.

A Womans Revenge is NO JOKE!

2007-07-19T18:51:00.000-04:00

As I was driving home from work today I was listening to the Matt & Ramona Show (107.9 Charlotte) and they were doing a segment on breakups with an ending "flourish". You might also call it the Grande Finale of the relationship.

So from listening to one womans story, I've learned today that you should never underestimate the revenge ability of an angry woman. Here's the story:

She's driving over to a male friends house and notices that her boyfriends car is there as well. Not so strange since they are all friends. Well...She knocks on the door and no one answers, even though she sees the friend sitting right there on the couch. He just wont come open the locked door. After some quick thinking she grabs an empty heineken bottle from her car, very classy, and demands that the door be open or she'll bust the glass. The friend opens the door, and she asks where her bf is. "I think he's upstairs." So she busts into one of the upstairs bedroom only to find....

Her bf half naked with another girl. This is where it got good. She takes the beer bottle and starts to beat him over the head. He picks her up during this whole process and takes her outside. Once outside she picks up a brick and busts every window on the sluts car and then gets back in her car to speed back to her place. Why is she going back to her place? To get all of his clothes/belongings of course. She then leaves her place to drive back to the friends place. "Oh wait! PIT STOP! I've got $7, lets buy a gas can and some gas. score!" What to do with this gas? Dump his stuff in the front yard and soak everything with gasoline lasagna-style (gotta have it layered and soaked through!) Yep, lets create a bonfire while he stares out the window like a scared pussycat.

Needless to say, she mentioned that her and the guy are still good friends and laugh about it now. WTF?!!!1!

Grandma's can Ghost Ride the whip too

2007-07-19T12:30:00.000-04:00

When I'm 80, maybe I'll be this in-touch with the kids.

Interesting facts about U.S. dollar bills

2007-07-18T15:46:00.000-04:00

Did you know that there are two "money factories" in the U.S., Washington D.C. and Ft. Worth Texas, and they print over $600 million a day? Hey, they can build one in my backyard and it would pay for itself in what, a half a day?

"In God We Trust" - The motto was not adopted for use on U.S. paper currency until 1957.

95% of the notes printed each year are used to replace notes already in, or taken out of circulation. During FY 2006, 54.80% of the notes printed were $1 notes.

It costs $.05 to make one note.

A stack of currency one mile high would contain over 14½ million notes.

Have you ever wondered how many times you could fold a piece of currency before it would tear? About 4,000 double folds (first forward and then backwards) are required before a note will tear.

The average life span of a Federal Reserve Note by denomination:

$ 1 ...............21 months
$ 5 ..............16 months
$ 10 ............18 months
$ 20 ...........24 months
$ 50 ...........55 months
$100 ...........89 months