Spatula City, we sell spatulas - and that’s all! 

Spatula City, we sell spatulas - and that’s all! 

Fun fact: the A Christmas Story house in Cleveland, OH is now open for tours. The house was used for the exterior shots, while interior shots were done on a sound stage. New owner Brian Jones restored the house and redecorated the interior to be as much like the movie sets as possible. You can tour the house and visit…

“I have a new sociological theory that explains most human behavior. It is this: people are idiots.” - Scott Adams

This kettle is in no sense “cordless”. It runs on 110 volt AC house current via a plug-in base. When the water is hot you can lift the kettle off the base, but it’s not “cordless”.

This kettle is in no sense “cordless”. It runs on 110 volt AC house current via a plug-in base. When the water is…

This is actually a terrific idea; too bad it’s such a butt-ugly table. If it looked nicer I’d buy it, but it looks like a milking stool.

This is actually a terrific idea; too bad it’s such a butt-ugly table. If it looked nicer I’d buy it, but it looks…

Horrifying fact: In the 1930s Bayer was part of IG Farben, the German chemical conglomerate that was in bed with the Nazi government, and supplied the Zyklon B gas used in their gas chambers to murder jews and others. They also used slave labor in their factories adjacent to concentration camps, and paid for …

Aww, sad-making... Gilda was the best. Rock Against Yeast may be the best SNL sketch ever.

On the 1966 sitcom Family Affair, Jody went missing in a bad part of town. They found him with a poor but caring man.

Some flying scenes of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo were filmed in and around San Francisco. When an oil refinery in Oakland caught fire they rushed the planes out to film against the backdrop of the smoke and flames. That’s right; the part of Tokyo was played by Oakland.

I’m not a money guy, but I’m scared to death of the stock market; it seems to me like a casino for rich people. Over it’s lifetime the Dow has returned just over 2%. Today it’s hovering around 1,000 in constant-dollar terms; all the rest is inflation. Yes, I know the Dow is not denominated in dollars, and this does…

I love long books that you can really get your teeth into. I’ve read all five of the Song Of Fire and Ice series, and I’m thinking about reading them again.

I strongly recommend Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, 1886, aka Symphony #3 with Organ. This is a big, bold piece of classical music that could almost be the soundtrack of an action movie. The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 1993 recording under Charles Munch is definitive.

My summer job in high school was working in a department store selling records and radios. In college I moved up to working in their computer center operating an IBM 360/30. My dad was a mid-level executive with the company and hooked me up. I was very, very lucky.

This is a good place to revisit one of the great commercials of all time.

The correct answer is: ketchup. You can ignore all the other brackets and skip right to the end.

I wonder how accurate her forecasts are. I’ve participated in several forecast exercises over the years, and did some research into how effective such activities are. It seems that they’re not very effective at all; future forecasts usually predict that the future will be mostly like the past.

That was more like dialog set to music. In the first movie he tried, and failed, to sing some actual ABBA songs.

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