Category Archives: Random Stuff

Random thoughts, topics, and factoids you’ll be happy you read.

Only some of you will recognize this

Just a pizza on a roof. If you are a fan, you will love this photo.

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Chris Cornell’s tribute to Whitney Houston

Chris Cornell sings the Whitney Houston hit “I Will Always Love You.” Classy. Heartfelt. Beautiful.

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The Most Expensive Starbucks Drink in the World, Ever–$23.60

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It’s not every day that you receive a coupon for one of the priciest beverage chains in the world! Armed with my Starbucks Rewards card, I decided to take the opportunity to find out just how much money I could pour into a Trenta—Starbucks’ whopping  31 ounce cup!   After about a half-hour with a laughing barista, we created the most expensive drink possible: one Java Chip Frappuccino in a Trenta cup, 16 shots of espresso, a shot of soy milk, caramel flavoring, banana puree, strawberry puree, vanilla beans, Matcha powder, protein powder, and a drizzle of caramel and mocha.

Price: $23.60.

The resulting beverage contains 1400mg of caffeine.   According to Erowid, a widely respected drug catalog, a heavy caffeine dose is 400+mg.  This drink has 3 times that.  If I drank this all at once, it…

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The perfect name for a lawyer

“Occuponomous” means having a name that relates perfectly to the job you have. Here’s a great example.

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Related: Here is a funny lawyer ad.
Related: Thugs need lawyers too!

Every time I look at the clock

Okay, I know this is weird. It seems like every time I look at the clock, it’s 9:11. I usually see this once per day. In the car, at home, out in public. It freaks me out. Does this happen to anyone else?

9-11 clock
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How to fold a suit, pants and shirt to go in a suitcase without wrinkling

This sure beats my method of folding my suits in half and calling it good. Folding and packing level: Asian. By the way, those large zip lock bags can be found here.

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Airplane Graveyards

Simone Preuss set out to tell the story of where plans go to die. It would be fascinating to walk among the carcasses of battered and gradually decaying old planes. I would love to have a big 747 delivered to a plot of woods in Northern Minnesota and build a cabin from it. Read the full story here. Here are a couple good books on aviation graveyards.

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90210: Behind the Zip Code

A video tape treasure from the most popular show of my youth. Copies are still floating around too.

90210: Behind the Zip Code
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The Parachute

This was one of my favorite memories of school as a kid. When the gym teacher broke this out, all the kids came unglued. Go buy one here.

When the gym teacher broke this out, all the kids came unglued.
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Rogue quotation marks

What are they really saying? (via Daily Dawdle)