Monthly Archive for September, 2008
The Impulsive Buy is a hilarious website where a guy reviews products with the sort of random absurdities that you’d find on [adult swim] on a regular basis. For a hilarious read, you should go back to his review of New Kids on the Block’s Summertime.
His latest review covers Twin Lotus Herbal Toothpaste, a Thai herbal toothpaste that looks like just about the grossest thing I’ve ever seen. You can read the full review here, but he also includes the following actual ad for the stuff: Continue reading ‘Twin Lotus Toothpaste: Now Racistier!’
While it’d be a stretch to call me a “gamer”, I do genuinely enjoy both playing video games and, frankly, watching people play RPG games (the idea of developing the skills to actually play one myself seems like it would have about the learning curve of teaching me to operate a UPS truck, which would be less entertaining but more profitable). But I do love keeping up with all the news and sometimes ridiculous review of video game sites.
This weekend, we had the big move in our house: two roommates moving out, three moving in. As a part of this, my roommate Jordan had to clear out his bedroom, including the multiple cups of change that have been accumulating over the last five years. That’s right, five years.
After an attempt to take it to the Commerce Bank up the street (which we then discovered wasn’t actually…ya know…open…yet…), we took it over the Harris Teeter, which has one of those Coinstar machines. Normally, I’d never recommend this: 8% fee to get the money I already have? Seriously?
BUT: They now have a new feature! If you turn in the cash as a gift card for things like Amazon.com, iTunes, or Starbucks, they waive the fee. Epic. Continue reading ‘Coinage! The Coinage!!!’
