get an rss reader (aka, use an rss reader)

this is a story about using an rss reader. They are great. You don't have to go to the website anymore, just sit back and have it download new articles for you. Pretty much all blogs and websites provide rss streams for you now. You can even follow comments without needing to refresh

for osx: Use NetNewsWire
It's fast, configurable, looks nice, lightweight, rad

for win: use NetNewsWire for osx on the mac you are going to buy, or use google reader with some kind of notifier. Or I think firefox can act as an rss reader. use that

Congrats grad, you now will waste more time watching your rss reader and immediately switch from whatever you are doing to it when you see a new article has popped up.

Oh, and..


I'm Back!

wheat

so

samuel adams makes over 1 million different types of beer and every single one of them is touched by a hard working middle American man who is this guy on the right here.

none of the beer makers have good commercials. Corona is just some dude and a girl on the beach drinking away with some shiteating grin all over their face and a big ol lime next to their bucket. what they didn't remind you about was when you just paid 30$ for that beer in the Caribbean and it probably had a sip taken already by the bartender who before letting you take the beer, tried to sell you some poorly crafted home-made bracelet, where you were all "oh man, this is just what i want to remind me about this trip. a shitty bracelet and a beer to forget about the bracelet"

the best commercials by far are budweiser. Most, if not all of their commercials don't even have people drinking beer in them. They are just like "hey, look at the bud logo shown in different ways, because we have drilled this logo so far into the base of your skull that you don't even need a reason to like the drink other than the fact that you like this logo. Have a look at this horse, or maybe some stupid frogs. Are you drinking yet? Have some more. Man this logo tastes good, eh?"

you know, if drinking beer makes me look like grizzly adams, I think i'll have another