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Things Men Should Be Able to Do

Skills for Men - Things Men Should Be Able to Do - Esquire

17. Make one drink, in large batches, very well.

When I interviewed for my first job, one of the senior guys had me to his house for a reception. He offered me a cigarette and pointed me to a bowl of whiskey sours, like I was Darrin Stephens and he was Larry Tate. I can still remember that first tight little swallow and my gratitude that I could go back for a refill without looking like a drunk. I came to admire the host over the next decade, but he never gave me the recipe. So I use this:
• For every 750-ml bottle of whiskey (use a decent bourbon or rye), add:
• 6 oz fresh-squeezed, strained lemon juice
• 6 oz simple syrup (mix superfine sugar and water in equal quantities)

To serve: Shake 3 oz per person with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glasses. Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice or, if you're really slick, a float of red wine. (Pour about 1/2 oz slowly into each glass over the back of a spoon; this is called a New York sour, and it's great.)

Airline Seating Charts & Best Airplane Seats

Have long legs like me and want to make the most of your ticket? If so just check Airline Seating Charts @ SeatGuru.com

Seriously Though, I do like those things

Have you seen "Stuff White People Say" yet? It's teh Funny. Although actually most of them are just things that "people" like. But it's still quite humorous writing. Whoever Clander is, he's busting out multiple amusing rants per week. That's not easy.

Oh Amazon, Why Must You Attempt to Save My Wicked Soul

Most amusing bookmark pairing of the day. From amazon. Accident?! I replaced my paperback with one of the last of the first printing hardbacks and got this with it.

Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

By JANET RAE-DUPREE
Published: December 30, 2007

IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience

Link: Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike - New York Times.

Wish I Could Have Been There!

Sportin' the Tuque!!

Merry Christmas

America’s atheists: Believe it or not

According to figures compiled by the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), almost 30m people claimed “no religion” in 2001, a doubling from 1991. This dwarfs America’s 2.8m who describe themselves as Jews according to the same survey (although other estimates suggest that the Jewish population is much larger, at about 6m). Catholicism, the country’s largest Christian denomination, boasts 51m followers. In other words, irreligion claims a surprisingly large number of adherents. Mr Romney’s attack on disbelievers prompted Christopher Hitchens, a well-known polemicist and the author of “God Is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything”, to describe him as “Entirely lacking in dignity or nobility (or average integrity)”. Others cited Thomas Jefferson’s ruder comments about religion. Even some conservative columnists chided Mr Romney for not saying, as George Bush has, that people of no faith at all are Americans too.

And yet those with no religious beliefs are shut out from political power. Earlier this year, a secularist group offered $1,000 to the highest-ranking politician in the land who would publicly proclaim no belief in God. This turned out to be Peter Stark, a Democratic congressman from the San Francisco area. He is the only congressman, of 535, who professes no belief in the Almighty.

America’s atheists : Believe it or not - Economist.com.

7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make

Lifehack explains the 7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make. Always good things to remember and try to avoid.

And I Thought Throwing My Hat Was Fun