…straight from e-Volve to the gunless wannabe cops.

How often have you as a guy found yourself wanting to not have that phone in your pocket or hanging on your belt clip because it’s in your way? Or needed to have that pen and paper waiting right beside you so you could jot down the phone number of that girl you just met at the bar. That’s right, she couldn’t take her eyes off of you because of that huge, discreetly hidden holster by your side. She thought you were possibly an undercover cop, you know, since women can’t resist a man in uniform. But wait, then she realized that holster actually held a pen and paper….and your phone. Crap, too late to take back the number she just read off to you. Now she’ll just spend the next week trying to avoid any unknown phone calls…but at least you with your phone holster will be able to pick up the next girl in the meantime!

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…well, maybe the true reason isn’t that the machine won’t recognize the pencil lead, but that it could cause a catastrophic explosion as seen in XKCD’s comic.

Everytime I took a ScanTron test, the teachers harped incessantly about using a #2 pencil. I mean, what would happen if you didn’t? You would fail if you didn’t have one because the reader couldn’t see the graphite? The paper would disintegrate due to the sheer amounts of pressure applied under a harder lead? The tectonic plates would shift causing the big earthquake that’s due any day in Charleston? The world economy would collapse? Oh wait, that last one is in the process…Anyway, quite a funny take on the subject in the comic.

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…at least for construction professionals.

Over at “I Want One of Those“, they have an eating untensil set for chidren 3+ years old. And being that I deal with construction workers (I am a designer people, not a constructer), these have to be some of the most awesome ones around. The set has three pieces…a crane fork, a front end loader spoon and then my absolute favorite, a bulldozer utensil to push food around (like getting that last bit off the plate).

Not the easiest price to digest at about $25, but still cool.

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…or hardcore video editing?

I have the toughest time believing this can really not be fake. But if it is, it is the best ragdoll physics I have ever seen on a video. If it isn’t fake, dang, how did that not rip the arms out of that baby’s sockets? Holy crap. Like I said, I have a tough time believing it, and it’s hard to dupe me.

…because if I didn’t win tons o’ cash eating 20.2lbs of hamburger, I had better have a heart attack before the embarrassment hits.

Brad Sciullo, 21, of Pennsylvania conquered the “Beer Bareel Belly Bruiser” at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub. This massive hamburger included 15 pounds of meat, and about 7.2 pounds of toppings and bug, and was devoured in only 4 hours and 39 minutes. All in all, he won $400, a certificate of accomplishment and commemorative T-shirts. Personally, I think he deserved more, but hey, it was his call. I wonder how fast the great Takeru Kobayashi could have done it in?

What I really would have liked to see is how his stomach looked AFTER he finished. Man, you had to be able to see that.

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in honor of my birthday!

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Comic by the one, the only…O!

…this looks somewhat tasty, yet very disgusting at the same time.

My wife and I visited the new “Just Fresh” restaurant last night and I had to indulge in a burger. It’s been awhile since I had a burger, so I had to try one of their combination burgers…pimiento cheese and burger. Dang, that had to be one good burger!

Now, the folks at G4 dared people to make the burger shown above so aptly named “The Fatty Melt”. This heart attack causing monstrosity is basically a burger surrounded by two grilled cheese sandwiches. Yum!

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because there is no way I would have survived this.

Check out this article in Discover magazine and see if you can be as manly as this guy…

The Inuit didn’t fear the cold; they took advantage of it. During the 1950s the Canadian government forced the Inuit into settlements. A family from Arctic Bay told me this fantastic story of their grandfather who refused to go. The family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and all of his implements, thinking that would force him into the settlement. But instead, he just slipped out of an igloo on a cold Arctic night, pulled down his caribou and sealskin trousers, and defecated into his hand. As the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of an implement. And when the blade started to take shape, he put a spray of saliva along the leading edge to sharpen it. That’s when what they call the “s*** knife” took form. He used it to butcher a dog. Skinned the dog with it. Improvised a sled with the dog’s rib cage, and then, using the skin, he harnessed up an adjacent living dog. He put the s*** knife in his belt and disappeared into the night.

Wow. That is all I can say. MacGyver meets Eskimo. There you have it.

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because it’s definitely a good approximation of what society could be like if it was instituted.

How many times have you been on Facebook, YouTube or even general forums and found people venting or writing inflammatory remarks? Probably about 85% of the sites you visit have at least one of those people on there. I’m sure every now and then I’ve been responsible for some of those comments. The most common I have posted is the image below. This is for when you get tons of people acting like pompous airbags all spouting there beliefs as if it is the only way things can be.

So, my social commentary for today, think before you write, and think twice before you submit/send.

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Let’s ask Jose Cruz of West Virginia, he certainly found out the hard way!

You know, I’m trying to figure out who is really the most wrong with this scenario, the cop or the man. When Jose was pulled over for driving without his headlights on, he then failed a field sobriety test. When the police took him in to be booked, the man shifted over and passed gas on the police officer. Afterwards, the man was charged with battery for that act.

Now, come on, it’s gross and all, but battery? Some people have the impression that police officers are control freaks and overbearing…stories like this don’t help that image.

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