Coffee Snobs from Funny or Die

This is too hilarious not to share immediately:

Coffee Snobs from Frankie Shaw

Just put the Yankees and Red Sox in Their Own Division

Look I'm not a real big baseball fan anymore. I confess the strike in 1994 sapped a lot of my enthusiasm for the game. However I do keep my else on things tangentially and I'd like to suggest to MLB that they just put the Yankees and Red Sox into their own 2 team division in the American League.  I think the division should be called American League Cash Cow.

Basically, both teams would play each other 162 times over the year. The winner of the series would automatically get a buy into the second round of the MLB playoffs. I mean that's what everyone wants right? People just want to see the Red Sox vs the Yankees so let's give it to them.

Honestly, it makes sense. Since 2003 between two teams have been the American League East champions 6 times and wild card entrants 7 times. So of 16 possible play off spots up for grab they've taken 13 so it's not like this is a stretch anyway. Taking a look at the current standings NY is leading the American League East and Boston is in the wild card spot. Business as usual I guess.

So a little bit of re-org will need to happen but it can easily be done by moving Detroit from the American League Central to American League East. That gives us 3 four team divisions and one 2 team division.  Playoff spots would go to the winner of the American League East, Central, West and Cash Cow. Additionally the best two records from the East, Central and West divisions would get the wild card spots. This would allow so new blood into the MLB playoffs.

Hey MLB, I don't need any royalties for this so feel free to implement this idea without attribution.

K-Cup B-ball

I will begin practice immediately!

Coffee Etiquette from the Nerdist

A great post from the Nerdist on 8 simple etiquette rules to follow at your local coffee shop.

The Most Awesome Thing Ever! Part 2

Oh thank you Foolish Gadgets for letting me know that these Star Wars Sandwitch Cutters even exist.  Honey, we heading down to Syracuse so I can go to Williams-Sonoma.  I'm willing to bet she never thought she'd hear those words but I need my peanut butter Millennium Falcon to be chased by a ham and cheese Tie Fighter.

Roof Coffee Cup

From Boing Boing: Guy drives around with coffee cup on top of his car and tweets the reactions he gets.

Coffee Infographic

Funny infographic from The Oatmeal on 15 things worth knowing about coffee.

Coffee Jitters?

Well maybe not as bad as these guys:

Friday Book Review: Nextwave - Agents of H.A.T.E. Volumes 1 and 2

It seems like everything I've really enjoyed from Marvel Comics over the last few years has been these wacky non-formulaic books that don't get tied up in their giant company wide crossovers. Things like Agents of Atlas, Captain Britain and the MI-13 and Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.

Nextwave was written by Warren Ellis who is someone that I think is at his best when he lets his warped sense of humour go at full throttle which he most assuredly does in this series. It's drawn by Stuart Immonen before he became super big in the comics world and it's inked by Wade Von Grawbadger who I will forever love for his run on Starman.

The series ran for twelve issues and was collected in Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E Volume 1: This Is What They Want and Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E. Volume 2 - I Kick Your Face.

The series brings together five C-list superheroes to form the Nextwave team. They include Monica Rambeau, a former Avenger; Tabitha Smith a former member of X-Force; Aaron Stack, the Machine Man; Elsa Bloodstone daughter of monster hunter Ulysses Bloodstone; and The Captain. The greatest thing about the team is it is already formed when you pick up the first issue and there is none of the regular mistaken identity/super hero fight when teams regularly get together in comics.

The team has been brought together by H.A.T.E. (Highest Anti Terrorism Effort) to fight U.W.M.D. (Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction). Unfortunately for the team they find out that H.A.T.E. is funded by the Beyond Corporation which is a front for the terrorist organization S.I.L.E.N.T. Regardless, they steal the Shockwave Rider an experimental vehicle, named after John Brunner's novel , and they travel the USA stopping various and hilarious terrorists threats.

The is quite hilarious and it is comic book action amped up to 11. I really have to recommend it to anyone who is looking to read so fun comic book action while enjoying some great art without needing to know 30 years of back story.

A Coffee Cup on Twitter

Did you ever wonder what your coffee cup is thinking? Well now you can find out by following your cup of joe on twitter.

Viagra Laced Coffee

Police raided a warehouse in Malaysia where a company was distributing a coffee laced with viagra. I know there is a joke in this news item somewhere. Please add your own punchline in the comments section.

If You Kill the Joe...

Saw this funny bit on digg and it reminded me of Terry Tate Office Linebacker.



Anything that reminds me of Terry is a good thing!

Always Postpone Meetings...

One of my favourite quotes from Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is to Always postpone meetings with time wasting morons.

However many of us can't be as rude as Mr. Adams as we don't have his truckloads of money. So instead we have to show up for meetings or social functions we don't really have the time for or want to participate in. I'm sure some of you out there have even setup a safety phone call with a friend in order to get you out of a meeting or date.

That's where the iPhone comes in and it's killer app, the Clock! The Clock has a great feature called the Timer. You set the timer to count down for X number of minutes. Once the timer reaches zero your phone begins to ring. At this point your acting skills come into play:

Hello
Pause
What do you mean a group of atheist, vegetarian, motor cycle riding U.S. mortgage company CEO's are tearing up the front lawn with their hogs?
Pause
I'll be right over!

You might want to have an excuse in your head as you go into the meeting as not everyone is as fast on their feet as I am.