Superheros rule. Accept for Aqua Man (don’t get me started). Superheros battling each other rules more.
Pre-internet, you had to wait until Saturday morning to see the super-powered duke it out. Apparently, The Hall of Justice is a part-time gig! But with your trusty web browser (or even better/easier, that ever effective RSS reader on your utility belt) and thesuperest.com, you can watch an almost daily duel unfold on your desktop.
A perpetual battle royal of wits and humor, two talented illustrators armed with pencils and internet connections duke it out with cheeky superheros who’s super power in some way invalidates that of the previous victor. Read the rest of this entry »
In the latest episode of Man Caves on the DIY network, the show hooked up this guy with a Vegas style room with a custom poker table. It is pretty sweet and does not look terribly difficult if you are somewhat handy.
Fortunately for us, they published the materials list and directions on their site. Read the detailed instructions after the jump or read them on the DIY site with pictures.
It is good crispy, burnt, salty, and fatty. It’s good as strips or crumbled. It is enough to man-up the girliest of salads and the snobbiest of scallops. In essence, it is hands down the best piece of meet to ever come off an animal. The single strip of bacon alone is the reason why a pig is better than a cow when it comes to meat.
Today, I found an amazing act of brilliance. Created, of course, by a man who clearly loves bacon the same way that I do. He thought to himself, “Why not weave bacon together and make a tapestry of bacon-y goodness?” All I can say is, “Thank you sir.” Image after the jumpRead the rest of this entry »
Yesterday the Boston area got hit with our first snow storm of the year. In my area, we got 10 to 12 inches. As much as it is nice to get your kids (home from a school closing) to do the grunt work of shoveling all that snow, the bottom line is a snowblower is quicker, better, and let’s face it, a heck of a lot more fun. There is nothing like throwing snow 30 feet in the air!
Snowblowing for me is an excuse to show off my machinery in the middle of the night. It’s like the time you backed out your new riding mower for the first cut of the season. But a snowblower is not like pulling a sports car out of the garage. You start off with a loud bang and a steady hum of the engine for all the neighbors to hear. And while you have a large window of acceptable grass length, when it comes to snow, you have to get in and out of your driveway. Last night I was snowblowing from 8:00 - 10:00 P.M. because I didn’t want it to freeze overnight. Read the rest of this entry »
Noodads, I am all over this one. As a baseball fan, I cannot wait to see the list of cheater-cheater pumpkin eaters in baseball. A source from the New York Yankees has already leaked that the Rocket, Roger Clemens is on the report and will be outed at 2:00PM today.
My buddy Old Number 7 and I put together a quick and dirty Fantasy Steroids Pool.
Running your own poker tournament can be a lot of fun, but if you do not think it through, it can be a real drag. This is the second article in my poker at home series. This time we are talking about how to run a rebuy tournament. A rebuy tourney allows people to get more chips when they run out. This means that people who lose all of their chips can get more chips and keep playing. The great thing about this method is that you can do it on a work night. I have learned a lot about hosting poker games since I wrote the last installment so I’ll try to impart all of this “wisdom” here.
Football season is coming and I haven’t been this excited since…well…last football season. If you are like me, the NFL is your Jim Jones and the start of the season every fall is like the smell of new Kool Aid being mixed.
But when you work every weekday and you normally savor the weekend hours for time with the kids, you are faced with a tough dilemma: balancing kid time with football time. What do you do? You corrupt your
kids of course. After all, if they crave the game as much as you do, you are golden. Here are a few different approaches to obsessing your kids with this great game at an early age. Read the rest of this entry »
I know you are not into it, but you should be. [apologies to our non-American readers. Welcome and we”re glad you”re here!] The rest of of the world is captivated by it. The drama is huge. The biggest names in the game are all there. No, I”m not talking about the World Series of Poker, I am talking about the World Cup. It is probably the easiest sport to understand conceptually and the least complicated to actually engage in. Millions of kids play it in the US alone, and in spite of the fact that you probably also played soccer as a kid noodad, you could not care less about the World Cup. And why should you?
Great (Starter?) Sport for Kids One good reason to get into the World Cup is that it is easy to get your kids into the game both physically and behind the idiot box (TV). Sports promote coordination, quick thinking and physical fitness. In this one, you will not have to explain a lot of complicated rule or strategies. Have you ever tried explaining balls and strikes to a 3 year old? “Daddy, what”s a pitch count?” You just tell your kids: There are 2 goals. Each team tries to kick the ball into the goal while the other team tries to prevent this from happening. Only 2 guys on the field can use their hands with one exception. They are called goalies. You will know the goalies because their shirts look different from the other shirts. Back to the exception; if the ball goes over one of those sidelines, someone can use their hands to throw the ball back into play. My 17 month old loves sitting on my lap watching the World Cup. He just points and says “sooocccceeeer”. He also can identify a hockey game. I”m working on baseball. My 3 year old also likes to watch the games. During half time, we go out in the yard and kick the ball around. She is pretty good at dribbling the ball, but does not understand passing yet. She just dribbles to me. She thinks she is really good and is interested in playing. Perfect. I have just taught my kids the joy of sports before they turned 4.
If you’re like me, your weekends are populated with a combination of exhausting family activities and recovering from said activities. It can be pretty tough to get a guys night in because your noodad buddies are in the same boat and your single buddies probably go out much later than you can handle. You’re probably thinking that having a guys night at home is a cool idea in theory, but that you’ll need Star Trek beaming technology to send the family to Abhu Dhabi for the evening.
Not so, as long as you don’t live in a studio apartment or cardboard shanty, you can have a guys night AND your wife can have a night out by herself or with her friends, but you may need some remedial noodad.com courses before you can do it. Read the rest of this entry »
Superheros rule. Accept for Aqua Man (don’t get me started). Superheros battling each other rules more.
In the latest episode of Man Caves on the DIY network, the show hooked up this guy with a Vegas style room with a
Yesterday the 
Football season is coming and I haven’t been this excited since…well…last football season. If you are like me, the NFL is your Jim Jones and the start of the season every fall is like the smell of new Kool Aid being mixed.
I know you are not into it, but you should be. [apologies to our non-American readers. Welcome and we”re glad you”re here!] The rest of of the world is captivated by it. The drama is huge. The biggest names in the game are all there. No, I”m not talking about the World Series of Poker, I am talking about the World Cup. It is probably the easiest sport to understand conceptually and the least complicated to actually engage in. Millions of kids play it in the US alone, and in spite of the fact that you probably also played soccer as a kid noodad, you could not care less about the World Cup. And why should you?
If you’re like me, your weekends are populated with a combination of exhausting family activities and recovering from said activities. It can be pretty tough to get a guys night in because your noodad buddies are in the same boat and your single buddies probably go out much later than you can handle. You’re probably thinking that having a guys night at home is a cool idea in theory, but that you’ll need Star Trek beaming technology to send the family to Abhu Dhabi for the evening.
