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  • In-N-Out Burger SUCKS

    When I started this blog, I needed to put an “about me” page. So on January 2nd, I simply placed the first thing that came to mind, “I eat cheeseburgers. A lot.”

    I liked it then and I still do. I didn’t go all grandiose. Plus, it was heck’a honest.

    I’m not very proud to say it, but I have a pretty bland palette. In one of my better bachelor moments, for a few weeks, every Monday, I would go to Church’s Chicken and order a 20-piece chicken thing. I had breakfast, lunch and dinner for at least two days straight if not three.

    Nowadays, I eat at least three cheeseburgers a week. I love ’em. A red meat sandwich with cheese and a salad (lettuce) all in one. Can’t beat it. So all though I don’t know squat about food and fine dining, I consider myself a connoisseur (aw, shit, fancy French word) of the King of Foods. So it kills me when folks say In-N-Out is good. It’s not. It’s shite.

    The real reason you hear people say “Oh man, In-N-Out is the best! They just opened one? Where? Aw shit! ROAD TRIP!” is because these people know two-shits about a decent burger.

    Two of the greatest sites ever created are Stuff White People Like and Look At This Fucking Hipster (more on the dreaded hipster in a later post.) All though totally different in how they convey their message, their target is the same thing that all Americans across all races and political affiliations hate; spoiled, out of touch, left-leaning white people. I could save them so much time if they would just wear a shirt that said “I’M EMBARRASSED MY PARENTS HAVE MONEY”. Anyways, back to those vile burgers…

    These pretentious few are the one’s that love those wretched things. Unfortunately, they have also suckered some of their normal friends into thinking those things are good.

    The best burgers on earth like McDonald’s or McDonald’s they can’t touch. Why? Well the aforementioned STWL has some very good primers. It’s not natural. It’s not organic. It’s not stupid. So when these delicious deprived individuals get a small hint of greasy, fleshy Americana, they have a mouth-gasim. If I ate piles of horse shit all day, like they do, I guess an In-N-Out burger might taste good too.

    “It has a secret menu with a vegetarian option!” Well I have a fist with a punch-you-in-the-face option.

    So In-N-Out fans, do the rest of us a favor. Go to Mickey D’s, grab a number whatever, super-size the shit out of it and shut the fuck up.

  • Life Experiments

    So I’m learning a lot lately about productivity, lifehacking, and other self induced life changing experiments. We as humans are always looking for that next, get rich quick while losing 50 lbs. in a month, miracle. But what happens when you try something life altering and habit breaking not for your betterment, but just for the heck of it?

    Here are three articles about guys who have tried a few off the wall studies, and their the guinea pigs. No matter how different the project they all have the same result: hilarity.

    Enjoy.

    I Think You’re Fat by A.J. Jacobs

    How To Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire by John Hargrave

    Will Doing EVERYTHING My Wife Tells Me Turn Me Into The Perfect Husband? another gem by A.J. Jacobs

  • The Low-Information Diet

    Once upon a time, like last month, I was always checking in on some type of screen. Whether it was on my computer or on my iPhone, I would regularly check Twitter every minute and my e-mail and facebook every five minutes. The reason people do this, I believe, is everything from feeling important to creating a false sense of “busyness”.

    The straw that broke the camel’s back was when people were trying to have Twitter arguments with me. Yeah, you read right. Arguments. Via Twitter. It’s as lame as it sounds.

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  • American Exceptionalism

    "Progress of America" Domenico Tojetti

    The term American Exceptionalism means many things to many people. To some, it represents imperialism; a world under the oppressive thumb of the United States. To others, like President Obama, it represents national pride. “I believe in American exceptionalism,” said President Obama, “Just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.”

    I disagree with both. America is not just another land grabbing world power going through its dominant phase like Rome or Napoleon’s First French Empire. Nor is America just a mere swab of land bordered by two oceans. It’s an idea. An idea built on the basic value of human freedom and personal liberty borne in the spilled blood of revolutionaries. Revolutionaries that escaped the greatest problem mankind has ever brought to bear on himself: tyranny.

    When compared to the backdrop of world history, the United States of America is still in its infancy. However, on the subject of personal freedoms and human liberty there is no other entity in history that is older and with more experience than our Great Union. The United States is both the igniter and keeper of the Flame of Liberty.

    We are exceptional because in a history of Crowns and tyranny, dictators and oppression, we are the exception.

  • Just Do It? I Just Did.

    So one of my favorite things to learn about is productivity. GTD changed my life. Life was once overwhelming; a never ending onslaught of to-do’s, wish lists, requests, etc., making my existence one unmanageable mess. I felt like I was awash in a blinding light, unable to see or move. Simple things like creating a “Next Action” list made that mountain into a molehill. Now my projects, plans and aspirations have turned that light, coming at me from all directions, into a LASER of focus.

    After all this success, you’d think that the last thing I would do is change what has worked, but that’s exactly what I’m doing.  Kind’a. As of late, I’ve really been enjoying the work of Tim Ferriss. His approach is different from David Allen’s. Whereas Allen teaches one how to manage and compartmentalize everything, Ferriss preaches a more simplified application. You’re to-do list becomes more manageable when you do less.

    One of my own personal goals was to have an American Outlaws chapter here in Arizona. The American Outlaws are the largest supporter group of one of my dearest passions: The United States Men’s National Team.

    The United States Men's National Team

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  • First Post

    This will be more of a semi-public journal. I hate writing but I do wish to have an outlet to place some thoughts and opinions. Creative output, ‘na mean? I have another blog on Blogger that I also set up and have also done squadoosh with that but WordPress has an iPhone App and lazy Tony likey.