Jist a oderless smoking product

Did you ever really wonder why people smoke? I get that they are addicted but did you ever wonder why it has to stink so much? Now there is this smoking device product called Jist working it's way into the U.S. Market. It's battery operated and has this cartridge you have to replace after 200 tokes or something here is how Jist it works. The best part is that it does not smell! I literally could be sitting righ next to you and if you were not looking at me you would have no clue that I was smoking an alternative smoking device. They also make a Cigar which looks like the real deal. Actually the most impressive one. The promo vidoes on the site are pretty cheeky but you will get the Jist and everybody will be able to invite grandpa back inside.

Broken NJ transit rail power switch AGAIN!

The commute saga as usual was hell today on NJ transit. Today's excuse broken switch outside of Newark Penn. The platform is now filled with more passengers than it can handle. No refreshments for anybody and I can't open mine because it is illegal to drink beer on the platform and hang-out. WTF NJT? Get it right sometime this Summer please. It is bad enough you make me deal with drunken NJ devils fans during hockey season. Thanks. Wha are the benefits of mass transit again?? ... To be continued I'm sure.

Beer margarita with hot sauce

I can't remember the Mexican name for this drink right now, but it starts w/ an E'. Anyway on a hot and muggy day this goes down the gullet like nothing else in this world.
Ingredients:
1) Lime to prime the edges of the glass. (Pint glass recommended)
2) Kosher chunky salt
3) Ice
4) Beer
5) A hit of Worcester sauce. There is another Mexican alternative that is a similar steak to sauce.
6) El picante. Tabasco or some hot on top.
7) Squeeze and drop the rest of the lime in and enjoy the bliss on your lips. Don't drink too many as it may do a number on your stomach. But damn is it good going down.

Goes with anything you like to grill during the summer months or at the beach especially.

Enjoy.

The Political Economic Battle

If I were running for president I would serve the people first. This obviously is fantasy as once they all get the nod the negociation and reality of politics settles in. Promises O'bama VS. Mc older than Cain style of politi. We the people must condone a few things by our local and federal government:
1) No more tax breaks for big oil (duh)
2) Get the F*ck out of the war
3) Reverse all Afred E. Bush laws
4) Get our privacy back
5) Get Education back on Track
6) Only give hand-outs to small business and stop bailing big companies out. Make them sell back to the employees or in smaller chunks not just anothr big fish.
7) Make local townships accountable for where they spend your property taxes. Not sure where you live but in my local government they over pay just like Federal does.
8) Make the adminstration accountable for all the people's money they have giving to special interests and business. In other words answer the question why are contractors running the industrial complex? Who realy works for the government besides US postal service, law enforcement and people in office?
9) Take action with the need to create a cheaper energy that is both environmentally friendly and can harnass local resources. Lots of action going here but not nearly fast or good enough at all yet.
10) Make the rich pay a little more taxes and the poor a little less lets say at an average household income of 1500K a year. Anybody make any less their local taxes and federal avg requirements are lower on a sliding scale to nil.
11) And lastly add more transparency to government.

Idealistic I know but being that we are now looking at a depression not a recession with the price of everything going up (groceries, gas/oil, entertainement and beer). We need to take action and remove power from the morons who have run us so deep into this sh*t. We need to make them pay back their debt and undo the veil. We all need to eat and they are too fat for their own good. Thanks.

Fox Channel Political paid smear campaign

What motivates the government's Fox News channel and home of some of my favorite shows to smears Obama? What is in it for them? The situation is getting far out of control and as smart consumers we need to put a immediate stop to this BS. It is time to pitch in and tell FOX that their use of racism, local terrorism and prejudice is not acceptable at ALL. The Republican propaganda machine is in full forth and McCain is not going to stop it.

Remember ALL the paid BUSH operators that promoted IRAQ and sold you the war? Well they are back. Firt FOX paid "commentators" accidentally confused "Obama" with "Osama" and then joked (HARDY, HAA HA, HA. WINK WINK WINK) on the air about killing Obama (WTF America?! don't even go there. Remember the CIA killed the Kennedy's Part 2 ~TRS). Next, another FOX anchor said a playful fist pound by Barrack and Michelle Obama could be a "terrorist fist
jab." (Seriously! give me break a-holes) And then, white hood FOX has called Michelle Obama "Obama's baby mama"-- obvious derogatory unwed mother term to describe a mother of a man's child.

SIGN THE PETITION TO AND BOY-COTT ALL FOX ADVERTISERS. NOT JUST THOSE ON THE NEWS CHANNEL.

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Be damned non commutor friendly NJ Transit

The slow pokes dragging their feet are not in my control when I was in full sprint trying to find a open door on the train with a good minute before the 6:23 express depature time. The slow electrical trains hustled me right on time and did not impose on the sweet diesel equipment on the Raritan Valley line out of Newark. But today it took the cake and I damn the conductors who had all of first cars closed except for one door in the middle of the train down the platform. WTF? I am not sure what yahoo thought this sort strategy works but you would think the last couple of doors would be open so the CONNECTING train folk could make it on without hurting theselves and pulling a groin muscle or something. I said THE CONNECTING train folk. BUT Noooooo. Literally one foot from home and beep beep they close the doors. To their usual insult to injury the next train sits around at the mercy of amtrak. NJ Transit I expect more for my $200 dollars a month. Lucky for you the AC was working nicely so letter bombs will not follow this rant but next time get f'kn organized or wait a freaking second to connect people as g*d damn scheduled. FU. Thanks for nothing.

P.S. And where is the damn bar car? The scheduling does not even allow one to make a proper brown bag selection.

America's Got Talent? The best trainwreck ever

Low brow tv keeps redefining the lowest common denominator factor. Starting with the brainiac who convinced the judges; Pierce, Joan and The Hoff to take part in this modern day Gong Show and pair them up with day time Tn'A wringer Jerry Springer deserves more shares! The bad clips must have been so bad they had to rush through NY, LA and The Chicago auditions in season premier. Most of the winners win from pathetic sympathy votes instead of by their talent, except for a violin duo Nuttin But Stringz and a opera singer who tear jerked the audience to a frency. For example two survivors were these Russian hussies who can't sing and a transvestite Britney Spears impersonator who lip synced and are going to Vegas baby. It can only get worse from here and I am frightened America, when the worse were not very entertaining, what is to come next I can only imagine it will be less than un-watchable. The good news is that the bar is low for people to make it and win the lottery where there are no rules and just a stage to free form it. So keep watching America and lets compete against the vapid MTV reality stars are working too hard and don't deserve their fame and fortune. I am not sure how Terry Fator a Ventriloquist won last year but what do I know. We need to fill out summer nights somehow. Who was your favorite performer?

Summer Beer choices Landshark vs Summer Shandy

To kick off this Summer I hit up the local boozery store with a mixed case of summer beer six packs. One of the re-occurring beers is going to be Jimmy Buffet's Island Landshark. great detail on the bottle. Does not feel as heavy as Corona Extra and tasted great with a lime. $6 price-point. The other beer, I fell in love with this Father's day was a lemon summer Shandy from Wisconsin with the zingy flavor already in it! So when i invite you to a bar-b-q you will know what to bring. It's basically a light wheat beer with the twist in it.

Other good choices are Modelos in the can, Dixie from New Orleans (one step above a PBR) and reasonable sixer price point. If you want to get a little fancier Brooklyn Summer Ale is pretty good but find it a little bitter. My old standby when it is really hot is Miller Lite. Yes, this beer snob also knows how to economize when it is sweltering and you just want a guzzler with all the taste of a Budweiser and less calories. A ML pounder is the beer of choice during cocktail hour on the train ride home from Manhattan. Nothing fancy and no hang-over the next day.

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I don't like chemicals in my beef

I quit red meat for many years in the 90s and then I got a hankering with the purchase of a home and a bar-b-q, it is slightly more expensive to purchase the chemical free stuff but but hopefully eventually it wil be cheaper. My daughter eats everthing organic and her first meat was organic turkey meat balls from trader joes. She loves it. You can Win A Grass Fed Cow by recommending a slogan. According to Eatwild.com U.S. cattle get 3.7 Million pounds of antibiotics annually, promoting resistant bacteria. Got cancer?

The Honeyshed beta shoppe site by Droga5

I ran into this today on the intraweb. Funny, Quirky and purposely awkward alternative product placement show. First bit I saw started with Kool Moe dee and then it went into all this girl product stuff and then into promoting sneakers. So i guess it is an infor-mercial thing with foreign models and nerds and a very loose marketing style. The streaming is a little buggy and nav unconventional but you get the point. Not sure how to subscribe but I want it!

Why mobile WAP sites suck

What is this behaviorial mobile tracking all about? How is mobile traffic getting to your web site? Do we all want more personal content or just our phone? or should it just be special content? Isn't it about what you can do? Isn't that always the it for innovation? Isn't this post annoying because I'm asking so many questions(statment). What is so annoying is that everybody is trying to figure out how to monetize and not really spending the time to make it work first. Sure walking and talking is easy bu how can you monetize something that is so alienating to most users. Right now the good WAPs are one-way push content sites (porn & articles) but damn you if you try and login somewhere. The screen realestate and functionality is just not quite there but damn does it make for a good investment. Zeldman had a fantasy blog post back in aug 2007 about what the new iphone will do not sure if the next iteration, due in june, will live up to expectations but we can all hope.

Urban Myth confirmation Westfield NJ Memorial Pool

So it is indeed NOT an urban myth. People were in line to get an open slot for the Westfield Memorial Pool at 3AM today and it is now 5:45AM or so. I got in line at 4:15AM and about the 40ish person in line! There are now about 150+ people in the line which wraps along the front of East Broad St. and then back down the side of the old Library entrance. They were still coming as of 7:30...and by then the line wrapped by pond. Easily 500 people.

Recommended required supplies:
Sunglasses, coffee, whiskey, ipod, umbrella, and a chair.

Update:

Only 997 spots open and my family were some of the lucky ones. The joke is that after, according to the rumour mill in the line (Some of moms do gab a lot) the first batch "gets-in" and then there is waiting list that does nothing. So if you missed it get there early. Like 3AM.

On the plus side no monsoon as was forecasted. Just fog. So the experience could have been much worse.

The Best Pranks for April fools day

Whoopee cushions, messing up somebody's office space and more elaborate pranks never get old. The more evil and the larger the conspiracy the better sometimes. Some of the best pranks stuff take things to the outer limits Here are some choice ideas for tomorrow to pull on your internet friends. (1) Send them an audio prank. Add a hidden comment on their blog berating them needlessly. (2) Phone sex pranks. (3) Not sure how funny this is but a death blog listing is classy way to worry your friends where some girl names jane was counting down to her death. (4) Rick roll a major news paper like the NY times and some film trickery. (5) Spoof a major directory site and add some modern day graffiti to Craig's list. Save the Sharpe ink. (6) Make an outrageous claim and make Flickr a lot advertising revenue with link titles like "Photo of Jessica Biel losing her bikini top while swimming at the Chateau Marmont". Otherwise known as SEO backlinking and then have the link be so disgusting people will be sorry. (7) Tom Green is always good source. Check out this more elaborate Slut mobile video he pulled on his parents where he spray paints the roof of his dads card. classic. (8) The Japanese are always a little bizarre. Funny prank video comp of scaring people and giant rolling balls.

What are your prank stories?