I was talking to an old friend from school today, and the conversation inevitably led back to our time in college together. We started reminiscing about one of the dumbest things we ever did together, which was the time we decided to take a year off and just bum around. Of course, we didn’t want to do that in Chicago (our hometown), so we figured we’d get an apartment. In Boston. With $800 between us, and no leads for any kind of Boston jobs at all.
As you can imagine, that episode didn’t exactly turn out very well. We made it to Boston safely enough, and crashed with a mutual friend for a couple of days. Then, we decided that it was more fun spending time sightseeing and sunning on the beach in Cohasset, so we didn’t bother looking for apartments or jobs after that. We burned through our funds in two weeks, and then had to call my parents to beg them to wire us gas money to get back home.
Oh, and needless to say, we sheepishly returned to school that fall, since we had no other prospects to look forward to!
Luc Bourdon, who appeared in some 27 games for the Vancouver Canucks this season, died earlier today after crashing his motorcycle near Shippagan, New Brunswick, Canada. Bourdon was just 21 years old.
Those of you who watch Grey’s Anatomy have probably heard that there’s a sex tape circulating online that allegedly stars Chyler Leigh, who plays Lexie Grey on the hit ABC series. Unfortunately for all you would-be pervs out there, the chick in the flick is not Chyler. Various sources have debunked the video by showing various differences between the real Chyler and the lookalike in the film. For instance, the real Chyler Leigh has a huge tattoo on her lower back, while the woman in the sex tape doesn’t. Also, the woman in the tape has a tongue ring, but Chyler doesn’t.
Last night I read a Forbes piece about the 

What’s wrong with the Seattle Mariners this season? Many analysts predicted that the team would have a pretty solid year since they added ace Erik Bedard to their pitching staff and all of their younger players would have some more experience under their belt. 
Are NFL rookie contracts getting out of control or what?? Former Boston College QB Matt Ryan, the first-round pick of the Atlanta Falcons, has signed a 6-year, $72 million contract that makes him one of the highest paid players in the league. $34.75 million of that money is guaranteed, which means it comes in the form of signing bonuses and other measures not related to on-field performance.
There are admittedly a lot of things in this world that I don’t understand, and expensive food is one of them. I’m not the kind of person that is comfortable eating at fancy restaurants — not because I don’t know which forks to use with which course, but because I can’t fathom the idea of spending $100-$200 per person on a single meal. The most I can spend without feeling guilty is $50 per person, and that’s only like once a year when we go to Bob Chinn’s for a special occasion.
One of the front page stories on Yahoo! news this morning was about a problem with McKinney High School yearbooks. Apparently, the printing company contracted to produce the yearbooks went a little crazy with Photoshop and royally screwed things up. The company, Lifetouch National School Studios in Minnesota, stretched, mangled, switched, and otherwise altered photos of students throughout the pages of the book.
When the economy is bad like this, saving money becomes an even more critical issue for small business owners than it usually is. After all, it can be tough continue paying bills and making payroll when fewer and fewer customers are buying your products or services.
Since anyone with Internet access is allowed to edit Wikipedia, there are frequent cases of “vandalism”, where people purposely post humorous, malicious, or simply misleading information. Of course, most of the time these problems are cleaned up pretty quickly, which means it’s somewhat hard to actually find examples of vandalism. In fact, the first time I saw an instance with my own eyes was a couple days ago when I was reading about Mario Kart Wii on Wikipedia.