Todays awesomosity for me has been over 30 years in the making. Let’s do some math here. Ill be 30 in a week, so about 30 years and 9 months ago, there was an event. It was the 1978 World Series. The Yankees beat the Dodgers 4-2 and 9 months later, my father was a dad for a second time.
Today I had lunch with my little grandma, my dads mom. We pulled out the album marked “Mark”. It was awesome. Lots of pics of my brother and I young, which are fun. And of course, pictures of when my dad had long hair, which sometimes was so very mullettish. Awesome. I wish I had that picture to show you, but you’ll just have to use your imagination.
For real though, I do salute my dad. He is the best dad a guy could hope for, and is truly awesome.
Todays awesomosity is something I saw while bartending for a wedding reception tonight. Actually, I’ve seen it before, and have always been aware of the awesomeness of Sterno.
For those not aware, Sterno is the stuff lit under banquet food. It gives off that sweet blue flame. Itself, it is a blue gel that I am sure is used in military weaponry, since it will burn for hours and sticks to anything.
Ok, well there are thirsty celebrating people that need drinks, and I need to get them.
This is another product designed for men, but pointed out to me by a woman. Hhhhmmm. Maybe she’s trying to tell me something? Anyway, today’s awesomosity applies to men, and not all men, just men that have trouble trimming that looked-really-cool-in-the-late-90’s look of a goatee. I introduce to you a father’s day gift: The GoateeSaver.
A few comments on that video. Is this a real product? That “commercial” makes me think its a joke. Were real actors simply too expensive? Is it that hard to trim a goatee? Was there no wardrobe advisor to tell that woman to never ever wear that dress anywhere for any reason? How much did you pay for that “commercial”, because I know a company that could make it way better for undoubtedly way cheaper (hint: it’s my company; Under The Line). Who is going to buy me one of those for my birthday?
you'll notice I'm clean shaven. That is mostly due to my lack of being able to appropriately trim my facial hair into a perfect goatee.
Be awesome by never wearing a goatee, unless of course, its trimmed with the GoateeSaver!!
I am guessing that today’s awesomosity applies to roughly half of you reading now. Though, it might be less, my stats don’t tell me the gender of my readers, just how many there are. This one only applies to men.
It really stings the nostrils
I hate shaving. I really do. That’s why I try to do it as little as possible. I did however, shave this morning because I had a client meeting, and the scruff was starting to add up. The best part of shaving is applying the after shave in my opinion. And I use what my dad used (he still does, but he used to too), Skin Bracer. It still has alcohol in it, they haven’t changed the recipe. That means that when you put it on, it STINGS!! And I love it. It feels really good when you shave your whole head. I also really like the scent of it. But, like I said, its what I grew up with, so I’m sure there is some nostalgic type of thing going on there.
Another one of my favorite things about Skin Bracer is that it was made by Mennen (You totally just sang “by mennen” outloud, didn’t you!). Mennen is perhaps the best brand ever. It has men in the name, and thats who they serve, men. Not girls, or little boys that want an after shave that smells like polo and is alcohol free so it doesn’t sting, or is a cream, or you buy at a salon, not Wal-Mart. And it still comes in the orginal green death color and scent. It’s perfect. Way to go Mennen. I wanted to post an audio file with the slogan being sung, but instead I found something way better from one of the best comedy shows ever on TV, Scrubs. Enjoy:
(on a side note, this clip also features a jingle that I have on my iPod, and I really love. What is the best part of waking up?)
When you think of my face, think of a baby's butt. Ok, don't do that. Think of Uniroyal.
Now, be awesome and use an after shave you can feel!
Today’s awesomeness comes from my friend and business partner, Sean. He finds these crazy things on the interwebs, and then plays with them for a while. This is certainly crazy, and quite cool. It could be very easy to spend quite a while playing with this sound machine. Check it out here:
I think we will end up using some of the stuff Sean is creating in some video projects. So, go have some fun with a tone matrix, don’t drive yourself nuts.
Reppin the Cards again today. What a game last night.
I got a new app for my iPhone recently that gives me all the daily content of Mashable, which is a social media guide website. It is a great website, with all kinds of awesome info about whats going on in the social media world, most of which seems to revolve around Twitter these days. Not all of their news stories are Twitter though, which is how I found today’s awesomosity, a new site called Hunch.
Basically, you answer a bunch of ridiculous questions, so that the site can “learn” about you, will suggest things. You can ask it just about any question, from “Should I see [insert movie title here]?” to, “Where should I eat?” to, “Should I upgrade my iPhone to a 3GS?” which is the one I took. Here are the results:
I got the awesome for the day today last night while working at Llywelyn’s. People that dine at our fair establishment frequently leave things behind. They usually come back for purses and wallets, about 50/50 on credit cards, and almost never on coats, hats, sunglasses, etc.
While I really want the Tony LaRussa “glasses get darker when it gets brighter” glasses, I don’t have them. Yet. What I do have now, thanks to a loyal patron, is clip on sunglasses to turn my normal specs into sunglasses anywhere, anytime, for any reason. Maybe I just wanna wear my sunglasses at night? So I can, So I can, Watch you weave then breathe your story lines. What? I have no idea. Here, just check out my shades and tell me if they look awesome or creepy.
I am the T-3000. Have you seen this boy?
And...VOILA!! No sunglasses, because it is a rainy day. You don't need sunglasses on a rainy day.
Today’s awesomosity happened last night. In between episodes of the Office, we took out the trash, only to find an awesomosity for today. Across the alley, there was a church service going on. There were many, many funny things about it. All the music was supplied by a boombox with a mic plugged into it. There were several songs in which the soudntrack was played on the stereo and someone would sing into the mic. Probably my favorite line I heard was something to the effect of, “I used to be a stripper and lived on the streets.” There were people dancing in the yard. Here are the photos I tried to get, none of them really do much justice, but I didn’t wasnt to just walk up to the fence and snap a pic, so these were taken “incognito”.
taken while putting trash in the dumpster
taken walking back to here place, got a little too much of me here.
And, taken while giving Janelle a hug, so as not to look to inconspicuous. I think Mission: Failed.
Now, what is truly awesome about this is an unabashed, true and genuine love of The Lord. They are totally unafraid of anyone that may sit on their balcony and watch, or walk down the alley and give ridiculous stares. People that have found God and want to come together to worship him any way they know how. I have no idea whether or not they all go to a “brick and mortar” church, or how they began their backyard service, but it was awesome. If you want to worship some Sunday night, let me know, I’ll show you where to go.
Flonkerton. That’s what is awesome today. Janelle and I are taking it easy tonight. She is a huge fan of the office, and has several seasons. I enjoy it, but haven’t seen a lot of episodes. So, we are going through them from the start. We just saw the office olympics episode, in which they play flonkerton, an Icelandic game in which one straps their feet to a box of paper, and then races across a room. I’m pretty sure I could win at that. Feel free to challenge me anytime.
Today’s awesomosity is somewhat theoretical, followed by an awesome video.
So, I have an iPhone. That is real, not theoretical. They are releasing the new version and the new OS for older versions next week. Let’s just get theoretical and say that a friend had a copy of the new OS before it was released. And what if this friend sent me a text with a link to get it. Remember, this is all theoretical. Then, just for kicks, we’ll say I downloaded it and tried to install it several times, succeeding only in totally erasing my phone. Perhaps the Apple help screen told me to update iTunes, and after that, the update worked. So, theoretically, I could be on the new iPhone OS like 5 days before most people. I could be enjoying things like cut and paste, emailing multiple photos, voice memos, seeing where calls come from, and even a search feature, which brings me to the awesome video. (There is a very slight bit of foul language, but it is a very funny video).
