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TBT! Other Stuff There Should Be Nobel Prizes For

(10/11/14) They’ve been handing out Nobel Prizes all week long, announcing two or three every day. This may come as a surprise to you, but I didn’t get one. It sure as hell came as a surprise to me. There’s even one for Literature! Is The Phil Factor not Literature?

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All my life there’s been awesome participation trophies and ribbons that have given me the belief that I deserve an award for everything I do. Adulthood has been kind of a let-down in that regard. You probably have some...

The New Facebook Emojis: Dislike!

Picture courtesy of Facebook Inc. and techcrunch.com

If you live in Spain or Ireland you’ll soon have the privilege of telling someone that their Facebook post makes you angry or sad or if you love it or laughed at it. Perfect! Just what we need; more ways to express our imaginary feelings with fewer words to our imaginary friends! Instead of actually using words you can now show your friends your feelings with “emojis” that accurately portray the whole range of complex human emotions. Apparen...

Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Reasons I Want to Live in Hotels Forever

Phil Taylor:

I’m traveling for work this week so I thought I’d reblog this Top Ten from last year about my love for hotels. Have a great Thursday ! ~Phil

Originally posted on The Phil Factor:

If sometime in hopefully the very near future I win a lottery of approximately 1 trillion dollars I am going to sell my house and car and spend the rest of my life in hotels.

10. No lawn to mow: At hotels I won’t haveany yardwork and yet the hedges will always be impeccably trimmed and sometimes in the w...

Top Ten Tuesday! Ten Sexy Quotes From Yelp Restaurant Reviews

I’m visiting the city of Austin, Texas for work this week and my friends and I were looking for a restaurant to go out to dinner. On Yelp I came across the restaurant Fogo de Chao, a Brazillian steak house. I read some reviews that seemed overly effusive and verging on pornographic. Apparently some people really, really love meat in ways that maybe they shouldn’t.

10. “The party really started once I flipped over my little red coaster to its green side, which seemed to have magically summone...

Zuckerberg: Facebook’s Evil Overlord

Remember about ten or fifteen years ago when chain letters/email were the bane of our inbox? Well, them and that poor Nigerian Prince who needs help transferring an enormous sum of money to your bank account. Last weekend I reached my breaking point and it wasn’t because, brace yourselves, I found out that the Nigerian prince is a scam. No, it was because not one, not two, or not even three, but several of my Facebook friends posted the “Facebook Chain letter.”

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Throwback Thursday! Hey Guys, We’re In Trouble…

(09/27/14)If you’re a guy, reading this may save your life. Ladies, you should read this because you’ll thoroughly enjoy the perspective.

Guys, we’re in trouble. Throughout history men have been the dominant gender because of our advantage in size and muscle mass. I think that may be changing. In my never-ending quest to live forever I’m continually trying to stay in shape. Recently I joined a new gym. I tried a couple classes that approximate Cross Fit. Do you know who’s in these classes? W...

Top Ten Tuesday! The Top Ten Causes of Writer’s Block

I love the angry baby

The curse of writer’s of all types is writer’s block; the desire to write but the sensation of having all your ideas bottled up somewhere behind a locked door in your brain. I thought of the idea for this list because I was having writer’s block about what to write a Top Ten list about. To be honest, my free flowing idiocy that I post every Saturday comes to me as naturally as breathing. Coming up with a Top Ten topic that people will want to read is far more challenging...

Music Monday! Panic! At The Disco: Bohemian Rhapsody

My son and I saw this band last week. It was my fourth time seeing them, although the first three times they were opening for other, bigger acts. It seems they’ve outgrown the opener label as my son and I waited in a line about a quarter mile long to get into the venue. The lead singer of the band, Brendon Urie, whom my son would like to model himself after, has a great voice and a brilliant dramatic flair on stage. Although the bands lyrics are catchy and clever I chose to add the video of t...

Miracles Happen

Phil Taylor:

A wonderfully moving post by my friend Debbie.

Originally posted on little debbie:

It was April 1st, 2014. Yes, April Fool’s Day. A day when we rack our brains, trying to think of that perfect gag to play on co-workers and friends. But not last year. Last year April Fool’s Day was no laughing matter. And it’s a day I’ll never forget – as long as I live.

I was sitting in my office with my face in the computer when I received a call from my best friend. She had her biopsy results —...

Just One Thing

Many of you may not remember this scene from the 1991 movie City Slickers:

Or maybe you do. Jack Palance’s, character, Curly, tells Billy Crystal’s character that the “secret of life is just one thing.” To which Billy Crystal replies, ‘That’s great. but what’s the one thing?” Curly answers, “That’s what you’ve got to figure out.” This week I figured out what my one thing is.

It was the end of the school day at Cicero Elementary School. Bus number 186 was called over the P.A. system, meaning...