Smartphones – Jackass Trouble Spot Examples of mobile phones and jackassery teaming up to make magic are legion. They are, indeed, a match made in heaven. Where there is a cell phone/smartphone, you can be sure that a jackass is nearby. We’ve chronicled several beautiful examples of this finely-tuned humanity before: They always have a…
This past week it was announced that you could no longer buy 11 albums for one penny. Columbia House – the most famous of the “record clubs” of the 1970’s – finally called it quits. More lament for this aging baby boomer watching fond memories from childhood goes “poof” in front of my eyes. Several…
She was initially published in July 2010. My wife had fallen asleep in the hotel room. Our eight-year-old, who we allow watch TV on trips like this, was transfixed by an infomercial. “Daddy, you have GOT to see this,” our son said, shaking me out of what was nearly sleep, “and we have got to…
Timeshares got their start in the late 1970s. This was when drunk people in leisure suits thought becoming a 1/52nd owner of a condo was a great idea – maybe even a significant “investment!” Timeshares, it turns out, are a freaking rip-off. Nothing more than another money-making scam for investors and developers who are now…