Hijinks at Barney & Hobo

Today on one of my rare visits to a Barnes & Noble megastore, I was compelled to do my good deed for the day. Spotting the brand new George W. Bush memoir on 'New Arrivals' table, I thought it would be helpful to the B&N staff to put a few copies out in their rightful section. Being a professional, this seemed like an easy task.

Well. That's not right. It may be fiction but there's nothing religious about it.

 I thought this would be easy, but I can't leave him here. Recovery what? Nobody I know has yet to recover from 8 years of The Decider. Let's try...

 Yeah. It's like a metaphor. But this is serious work and we must be accurate how we shelve crap like this.

Hmmm. Getting close. One more swing around the grand concourse and...

Bingo! I have a Bingo!! Now he's right at home.

Real Love

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Penn Jillette vs.TSA

"Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it."
Penn Jillette <via Penniphile>

Sunday Morning: Bourdain

Sicily. Part 1.




Parts 2-5 below the fold.

Day Nine: Zappadan

From the album Bongo Fury: Muffin Man. 1975. RIP Frank Zappa. 12/21/40 - 12/4/93

Your PARENTS just 'friended' you on Facebook. WTF?

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Acoustic Alchemy. Acoustic bliss

From the album Red Dust and Spanish Lace: Mr. Chow.1987.

Your brain wants to be the boss. Don't let it happen!

Oh Boy! The end-of-the-year top ten lists you hate so much. But wait. This one is different.

Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It) 

10. Knowing You Can Get Smarter Makes You ... Smarter

There's a way of thinking that goes that, since you didn't grow up with genius parents or Einstein's instinctive reasoning, you're only going to be so intellectually able throughout your life. But consider that when a group of college students were given a course that studied the ability to grow smarter and improve performance, they performed notably better in their further college studies than those students who were never taught such thinking. You can easily convince yourself that rigorous study can be a time sink, or let yourself believe in the brain's ability to adapt, and then actually adapt your own gray matter. And it kind of applies to the rest of this list, we'd hope. 

(Go. Now - and read the whole article-->via LifeHacker)