10 Reasons You Should Get a Bidet.

For probably the last 10 years or so at least one toilet in my house has had a bidet attachment. Currently all the toilets in my house have one. The one I recommend is the Ace HS Bidet which is less than $100 and very easy to install. I wouldn’t splurge for the warm water one as quite honestly, those particular nerves don’t notice the cold that much. And I say that as someone...
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Review: Motorola Droid 3 First Impressions

A Shiny New Droid 3
(stock photo—not mine)

So my new Motorola Droid 3 arrived today. I’m still getting it set up and getting used to it so there will be an adjustment period where I don’t know what the hell I’m doing, but I’ll give my first thoughts about it for now.

First, it’s sleek looking. It has rounder corners than the original...
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Choosing a New Android Phone

I’ve had my original Motorola Droid for about a year and a half and the battery life is starting to decline rapidly, and the touchscreen is becoming finicky. And it’s going kind of slow. Now some of this may be because I rooted it and installed the Bugless Beast ROM on it, I’m not sure. But regardless, the phone was showing its age.

So I went to the Verizon store with my...
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The World's Most Complicated Drink

This is me in Sorrento, Italy. I’m enjoying something to eat and drinking a whiskey sour. I’m on my honeymoon. Life is good. What led up to this moment, however, was just bizarre.

We had taken the train from Naples to Pompeii, then after looking around Pompeii had taken the train to Sorrento. We walked down the long, winding road to get to the water’s edge and...
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I find this Dove ad offensive

I was at the dentist yesterday and I came across this ad for Dove bodywash in People Magazine:

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The poster on the left shows dry skin and says “Before” and the poster on the right shows nicer skin and says “After”… the three women in a row in front imply “before>after” to me because of where they are standing. They progress from darker skinned and heavier...
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The Sound of Glee

I had really high hopes for the new Fox show Glee this fall. I really loved the show “Fame” when I was a kid, and I hoped that this would have some of the same things I loved about that. I was a performing arts student myself in both high school and at the beginning of college.

The show is a comedy, and a very campy...
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Another Installment of Absurdist Mail Theater

Incredible! I have in my hands another piece of the most ludicrous mail I’ve ever received. Yet again, sent by hopped-up religious zealots. Now, I have nothing against Christians in general, but these goofy fringe loonies just get to me. I can’t take them seriously. This one came in an envelope all marked up in silliness, just like the other one did. The best part was on the back:
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This Mail Can't Be Real?!

Ok, I get a lot of junk mail, and I throw most of it away. Every now and then, however, something really stands out. Sometimes it looks inviting. Sometimes it looks cool. And then sometimes it looks so unbelievably stupid and scary, you just have to open it. That was the case today when I checked the mail. Seems some slightly over-caffeinated Christians decided to send out some really weird shit. What caught my eye...
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Hummus: DotCom Overboard?

I think that the trend of companies and products opening websites is wonderful. I am so much more likely to look up information on the web than I am to call an 800 number or (god forbid) actually GO somewhere. I also like to shop online when I can. It fills my heart with joy when I see a TV commercial flash a web address on the screen.

But then there are some things that...
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