Beer Froster

These are pricey, but I absolutely love this.

It is called a beer froster. What it does is get beer to one degree above its freezing point, which is apparently 24 degrees.

Why is it called a “beer froster” and not a “beer chiller”? Because it is cold enough that if you put a beer on the counter, frost will flash-form on the bottle.

Mex beer with lime on a hot summer afternoon. Sweet!

Hawaiian shirt friday may start at work. Even then, there are Fridays where you may not be in the mood for la vida loca, you may want to take it down a notch and relax at home.When I feel like a little Hawaiian shirt Friday, Friday or not, I go to a few places online for some fun.

My first stop is always failblog.org, part of the cheezeburger network. A few years ago, a couple of bored Hawaiians (an oxymoron, if you’ve ever been there) decided to add words to a picture of a cat. “You mean, I can haz Cheezeburger?” went ultra-viral, and from this one thing they have built an advertising revenue driven empire. Check it out.

Then there’s facebook. Seek out your newest favorite life guru, the uber-gay, uber macho Pauly Casillas. He’s rude, crude, inappropriate… and entirely hilarious. Be warned, this may or may not be one of Gary Busey’s post-contracoup personas. Look for “Ask Pauly Casillas” and try not to get caught laughing.

And finally, a casual-Friday related demotivational poster. I found this one pretty motivational! Demotivational posters are viscously funny!

Ciao for now….

Oh, the Huge Manatee

Today is a disaster in the making for your truly.

I am going to hop into the electric car with my Mrs after work and head down to a new pub.

Just had all the brakes totally restored professionally.

New drums, shoes, lines, master, bearings, cv joints, and painted everything I could get my hands on too.

It was only driven home, seemed to work. No time to test. No time like the present.

Get outta the way, it’s Friday!

You provide relevant content, quick download times, inbound links from relevant sites, a sitemap and use google tools. You wait and wait, and still no love from Google.

Green Egg(s) and Spam

The way the search engines are set up, it isn’t fair. Search engines are ‘gaming’ online commerce, in my opinion, in that they are set up to ignore good sites for ones that have jumped through bullshite hoops.  

They richly deserve to be outsmarted, manipulated, and otherwise humiliated.

Long gone are the days when you can look for something and find all these cool, groovy, hip little stores. Now its comparison sites (that make Google rich), mega-corps who have droves of cubicle drones who do nothing else than feed the google monster (that make Google rich), and mega-corps that publish little stores to make themselves look cool, groovy, and hip.  And make Google rich.

But some of you out there didn’t get the memo. Even with a sympathetic admin, you… just… gotta… push…. don’t you?

Here are the rules,  spam kids, read them, know them, live them and love them.

1 : Post with RELEVANT and ORIGINAL copy. Do NOT simply copy something and repost it. This will require you to READ, then THINK, then WRITE. No effort, no link love.

2 : Your link should not be to crap products or services. You know what crap is. Medicines, get-rich-quick, warez, squeeze pages. You know what crap is, even if you are in denial that what you are promoting this week is crap. You know.

3 : Your link should not be to a competitor. If my blog is for Hawaiian shirt Friday, and I sell from http://www.hawaiian-shirt.net (which I do), do not post to me from aloha shirt shop dot com.

4 : Write in English and use good grammar.

5 : Learn to spell. This bugs the crapola out of me, so I listed it separately. I was a production slave and occasional freelance editor for a division of McGraw-Hill before they mismanaged it into the ground (another story), and I HATE bad grammar and LOATHE bad spelling.

I did have an open policy for posting, but all I got was redirects, joke names (I am guilty of that) and Akmet the mad spammer.

Bye bye spammers, just installed Askimet.

This week after work, go to a wine bar.

 Being a beer fancier myself, and having been brewing my own since 1984 (on and off), I don’t seek wine out.

This Friday, that is exactly the suggestion. Get out of the cycle, go get yourself somewhere fun and/or enjoyable. 

This week it’s a wine bar.

You won’t have a bad time, so you have nothing to lose.

The House

I didn’t get to post the past few Fridays. I had to paint the house.

Normally this would not be a problem, but I got a sinus infection on top of that.

I am still fighting it off. The gift that keeps on giving.

So I went looking for things to do in the big city, and found out Bill Maher was coming to town.

Only problem, $250 for two tickets. Next.

Tear For Fears coming to town in late August. The spouse is willing to go, but not really into the music. Next.

When did a night out become so expensive? Who could afford to date at these prices?

No wonder people never leave home.

As for my Friday? A good hawaiian shirt, a netflix movie and a homebrew.

Cheers.

Vintage Hawaiian Shirt

Arm people with water pistols, Nerf balls or paper wads to assail anyone who is blocking creativity

Ask a work mate if they need a hand, then give them a photo copy of your hand

At the office, make your garbage can into your in-tray

Bring a different tablecloth and flowers for the lunch room everyday for a week

Call everyone “ Bob” or “Richard”, even the females. Down south, “Richard-Bob”

Change the speed dial settings on a co workers phone

Change your accent every three minutes.

Create the worst case scenario for your project – feel free to exaggerate

Decorate your office with fun posters – add a humor section to the bulletin board

Dress up like a flight attendant and stand in an elevator, when people get on hand them peanuts and tell them to enjoy their flight.

Give crazy awards fior the sexiest phone voice, biggest blunder, Most likely to OD on coffee, Largest toe contest or whatever

Have fun with a photocopier or scanner

Have swivel chair races at work

Hold an awards ceremony during a particular stressful period

Hold meetings out of the board room – at a park, picnic site or a bowling alley

Mail an anonymous joke-of-the-week to someone on a regular basis

Move your desk into the elevator and ask anyone that comes in if they have an appointment.

Penalize people who talk about work when they are not at work

Play Nerf Frisbee in the office

Pray to the gods of the water cooler and leave various sacrifices.

Proudly show everyone your calculator and hand out cigars. Tell them your computer just had a baby.

Put a sign on your photocopier that says “New Copier – Voice activated – please speak your command”.  Watch the fun

Send odd emails from other peoples computers – Pretend you are them.

Use a banana or any other vegetable as a pointer for your next presentation

Water the fake office plants.

Wear your thong over your trousers and act surprised when anyone notices

When people send you unsolicited faxes – Send them back to them about 600 times

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Having an ongoing discuss (it seems) on that wacky, outta-control Hawaiian shirt Friday.  The world is ending!

A fop. Not "Fraternal Order of Police".

George Carlin famously quipped “You know what you almost never see anymore? A FOP.”

You know, he’s right. So when one does pop up, it peaks my interest. Enter Mr Dick Fuld of Lehman’s (think ‘large financial disaster’).

Come to find out that Lehman’s, being one of  the last to adopt a casual Friday, went hard on anyone who did not dress to the nine’s as himself.

“You know what? Fine. If these jokers wanted to dress like slobs outside the office, there wasn’t much Dick could do about it, other than sighing audibly and acting put out.”

Mr Fuld must have been a bundle of fun to be around, much less work for.

Full article here >

In case you want more of an upbeat idea, here is a link to some webcams on Maui. Drink it in, and dream of the tradewinds….

Vintage Hawaiian Shirt

Elsewhere on the blogosphere….

A new twist on the definition of casual friday.

And it’s REAL casual fridays at the white house