If You're a Baller, You Need These (I Think)

If I had a baller pool with a view of the Hollywood Hills, Manhattan or South Beach, I would probably need to buy some of these to put around my pool.

You can buy them here.  I'm not getting a cut of any potential sale, which makes this an honest recommendation. Of course, I haven't actually sat on one of these or had one in my backyard when I've thrown a party so I can't really fully recommend them.  Hint, hint, manufacturer.
http://www.stylepark.com/en/viteo/light-cube?nr=5

Crazy House, Poor House, Crazy House!

Plans for insane asylums:
http://www.oobject.com/category/insane-asylum-plans/

Honey Sundae

Before you die, I suggest you try: pouring bee barf over vanilla ice cream and serving with a napkin that has been moistened at one end.  You will get sticky honey on your lips and possibly your fingers while consuming this dessert and the moistened napkin will help clean you off.

Supposed to be a bowl of ice cream with honey on top

The Minutemen

8.9 Magnititude Earthquake in Japan:

Funniest reaction: I guess this is all just a BATTLE: LOS ANGELES promotional stunt?

Los Angeles Times:

Ryan Bowman, 42, was charged with felony hit-and-run after his Bentley slammed into Lauren Ann Freeman last November as she was in the crosswalk at Hammond Street. Bowman had faced a maximum prison sentence of up to four years in state prison had he been convicted.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/austrialian-businessman-makes-plea-deal-in-fatal-west-hollywood-hit-and-run.html

You Learn Something New Everyday:

The Minutemen? I thought they were a support group for patriotic premature ejaculators.

TL;DR: I hope the Minutemen have a sense of humor.

Is This The Location of Carmen San Diego?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lD8N1YCVxc

My Birthday Filtered Down to This

Obvious things that need to be legislated right now:

• Cell phone carriers and other providers of limited amounts of mobile data need to be forced to provide warnings to their customers when they are within 80%, 90% and 100% of their maximum amounts of data

I want to find:

satisfying work, real hope for success, strong social connections and the chance to become a part of something bigger than myself

I am now older:

Question that is always relevant: Will there be cake?

If you ever have time, you might check out:

http://lifehacker.com/5739492/learn-the-basics-of-design-this-weekend

http://jezebel.com/5738957/social-minefield-how-to-self+promote-without-being-a-jerk

I really want the girl from the T-Mobile ads:

You could walk around my home swishing your dress all day long.

Update 11/30/11: Apparently, the T-Mobile Girl's name is Carly Foulkes.  According to the Wikipedia page about her she has been cast on an upcoming FX show titled Powers, which is based on a comic book by the same name and is set to start airing sometime in 2012.  Unfortunately, I don't think we're going to get to see Carly's acting ability on display because her character's murder is being investigated in the first episode.  Thankfully, her character will appear in advertisements in the fictional world of Powers throughout the first season.

Protest:

http://www.thenation.com/article/157292/mobilizing-jobless

Free media connections anywhere: 

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20029217-12.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

If you scratch my back; I'll scratch your eyes.

What artists started their work at my age?

What artists started their work at a late age?

Future activities: movies, reading, cook dinner together with friends

Reading List

Reading List (I've struck through what I've already read):

• "The Gift of the Magi"  (O. Henry)
• "A Retrieved Reformation" (O. Henry) and "The Necklace" (Guy de Maupassant)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
• Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
• "Mother to Son" and "A Dream Deferred" (Langston Hughes)
• "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (James Thurber)
• "The Miracle Worker"
• "The Hollow Men" (T.S. Eliot) and "The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost)

Book Things

"Accessory is hardly a word that needs dressing up, but if you want to add just a spot of formality or irony to it, appurtenance does the job pretty well. Appertain is the most closely-related verb, and from there the meaning pretty much leaps out: an accessory object that pertains to a particular activity."

-Smart people (Just copy anything in quotation marks you find on this website and paste it into Google to find who wrote it, I don't have time to attribute everything- do it yourself)

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Winning

"fail" is out.

the new term is "winning" 

Aut viam, inveniam aut faciam

Aut viam, inveniam aut faciam = alpha male mentality