Any rental car. Being in an unfamiliar car in an unfamiliar place, sometimes jet-lagged, and almost always late for something, combined with just having forked over for the full insurance package, does not make for a heedful, careful driver.

In Georgia:

You mean, other than Hawaii?

Screw any book with 8 point black text on a blue background, unless it's so short you can memorize it after the first pass. Needing a surgical light to read a bedtime book defeats the purpose.

Two things: listening to anything spoken word (audiobooks, sports, news, comedy, etc.) seems to keep me alert more than music.

There wasn't a chance in hell I was going to do that. So when they asked if I wanted to come around to that side and cut the cord, I said, "Nah. I'm good over here."

Am I the only one who is hoping someone uses the Boromir minifig to recreate a Sean Bean Death Scene Supermix in stop-motion?

I'd forward this to my wife, but I just don't have it in me to explain Norv Turner to a loved one.

And then win at Indy with it.

A friend of mine just started reading fiction for pleasure at the age of 43. Reason? He got a tablet and it's now dead easy for him to find things to read and, since he always has it with him, convenient to read when he has 15 minutes. This is a guy with whom I once had the following conversation about the David…

It's a neat trick to fly over Guam and THEN enter American airspace in Hawaii.

That's wasn't a pickelhaube. It was just really cold that year.

Same here. I saw that can and got flashbacks to vomiting in a corn field. It says something that you can have a viable business buying up the rights to really shitty regional beer brands, mass produce them off the same line in Milwaukee and turn them into shitty national beer brands. I'm not sure what it says, but…

Wait. U of C has a Park Ridge campus?

I wonder if anyone at Big Ten HQ is rethinking the wisdom of naming awards after people who are still alive enough to embarrass you.

Guy buys himself a brand-new full-size conversion van, takes it out on the interstate. Sets the cruise control, goes into the back to get a drink/take a nap/watch TV, and is totally surprised by the resulting rollover.

1. EMS - That's tremendous.

On the nook, it doesn't disappear, but if you try to open it, you get a message telling you that the lending period has expired. To get rid of the expired book you have to delete it yourself.

That would have been a trick, since he never lived there while president.

I prefer over-ear headphones on airplanes because I've had problems getting my ears to clear when wearing in-ear phones.