Skip to content

Category Archives: HEALTH

song: xx marks the spot (i wonder how many other bloggers used that title…)

20-Oct-09

Two for Tuesday from my favorite (I think) new band of the year, The XX. They’ve gone ahead and brought something new to the scene by stripping songs down to their most basic pieces. Something else about this band that I find really interesting, and makes me like them more: both singers seem to have [...]

laugh: protect insurance companies psa

22-Sep-09

Reason number 56,450,456,403,870,557,423,208,911 that I love the internet: fake PSAs. Gotta love Will Ferrell and his awesome spoofs. Like who could forget this classic? And he’s not the only big name who does lefty internet spoof ads. The Coen Brothers made this one about “clean coal” technology.

bargain: super-cheap spectacles

21-Sep-09

If you don’t wear glasses, move along, there’s nothing to see here. If you do, you know that they’re expensive and a pain in the ass to acquire. Well, that’s just not true anymore, unless you insist on getting Versace or Gucci plastered on the side of it. The glasses I’m wearing right now cost [...]

Sleep Apneopoly?

03-Mar-09

I went to the doctor’s office the other day to see if I could get tested for sleep apnea. I’m almost certain I have it. It’s an annoying sleep disorder that makes me stop breathing in the middle of the night, then have a jolt as my body panics from lack of oxygen. It makes [...]

Amazing Feat

25-Nov-08

I accomplished something amazing the other night, something I doubt many people can claim to have done. I chipped a tooth in my sleep. That’s right. I chipped one of my upper teeth with one of my lower teeth…. while sleeping. How, you ask? I wonder how myself. I must have made some sort of [...]