Tag: Healthy living

photo courtesy srhbth Philly has its own style pizza? Does it involve putting a pizza inside a hoagie? Please help us solve this mystery by giving your speculation about what is a Philly-Style pizza.

The number in parenthesis is the number of hits the post got in 2008. Top 250 words spoken at presidential candidate debates (7,634) A timely post. Fun graphic. Caught fire on flickr. (there were four images, they each got 5441;…

“What is the optimal temperature for a refrigerator?” The best place I can think to get the answer is Sears. I would consider Sears to be the ultimate source on refrigerators. Where do you go to buy a fridge? Sears.…

I like calling the name of Cherry Pepsi to be “Cheery Pepsi.” If you enjoy Cheery Pepsi or Cheery Coke, please let us know what you like about it in the comments.

Wembleyheads on 43things wants to prepare a dish for a politically-themed potluck. It needs to be named something like “Barack-oli casserole” or “Palin-guini” or “McCain-aroni and cheese.” There are awards for the best names! Here are some ideas: Barack Obama…

A random snail mail letter was sent to me from a six-year-old thinking I work at the corporate headquarters of McDonalds. He has some incredible ideas for a McDonalds playground design with crazy tubes, slides, and mazes of various levels.…

Image courtesy kmccaul via creative commons license There are only four google results for “hopscotch world championship“–probably because hopscotch is really quite simple. How about making the sport MORE EXTREME‽ Place the squares farther apart, so you really have to…

Dark Chocolate Peanut M&Ms Dark Chocolate Peanut M&Ms would be great for currency. I love dark chocolate peanut M&Ms. Vocalo.org recently asked what is the best way to fund public schools? My response? Dark Chocolate Peanut M&Ms. Although if they…

While filling out this registratiom form for veer.com, I was getting a little cRaZy. I ate lots of chocolate today. 8^D I love how it makes my Veer profile look: I’d love to see someone try to snail mail me…

Image courtesy Chotda via creative commons Jell-O is such a great dessert, but yet I cannot think of any restaurants that have Jell-O on their menu. Now bars have jello shots, but i’m thinking of the wonderful jello masterpieces that…

According to McDonalds nutrition chart, their grilled chicken has more cholesterol than their crispy chicken. How can this be? It just doesn’t make any sense that the grilled chicken would have more cholesterol than the crispy chicken. Did McDonalds totally…

I’m just about to purchase a water filter. I was thinking of getting the big momma 1.13-gallon tank (Brita Ultra-Max Dispenser). The easy-to-use dispenser would be nice for filling up water bottles or cups. And it’s so monster huge, I…

Print out cute photos from the internet and include them with your mail. Paying your credit card? Stick a hedgehog in with it. Submitting your student load payment? Slide a squirrel in the envelope. Sending in a rebate? That certainly…

If i was Wrigley Company, I would buy the naming rights to Wrigley Field from Sam Zell. But I would name it Wrigley Spearmint Field one year. Then Wrigley Wintergreen Field another year. Juicy Fruit Field another year. That way…

As Antartica experiences its summer season, Chicago gets hit with winter. Often it gets super cold in Chicago, and it makes me wonder if we ever get colder temperatures than Antartica. And I’m talking South Pole, Antartica. On January 18,…

It’s gotta be really hard to be homeless and have to constantly ask for money or food all day long, only to have people reject you all the time. That’s one of the hardest things in life, when people reject…

The world is a better place when you are a klutz. Dropping things and tripping over stuff makes you intimately more aware of your environment. Trip down concrete stairs? You’ll say, “Wow, I never realized just how hard concrete stairs…

In various dark chocolates you’ll find claims of 65% cocoa or 70% cocoa. The cocoa percentage is nice, but what really helps you are the flavonoids in the chocolate. They reduce “bad” cholesterol and increase “good” cholesterol (source). 100 grams…

Got a clogged drain? Pour boiling water and baking soda down it. Got a sore throat? Pour hot water with tea down it. It’s funny to think of the parallels. A clogged drain and a sore throat are both solved…

Chicago water is so popular that people bring it back home by the gallon. One of my friends at work told me about how an out-of-state relative of his requested that he bottle up a few gallons of Chicago water…

The McDonalds by me closes at night, but the drive-thru is open 24 hours. They don’t let you walk up to the drive-thru, but they let you come via bicycle. But how about a kick scooter? Or maybe roller blades?

New name for Marshmellows: bonemellows or skinmellows Marshmellows are made from bone, skin, and sugar? GROSS! They should be called bonemellows or skinmellows, so people are aware of this. I will NOW start calling marshmellows that. Oh what a party…

Drinking caffeine will make the joints in my fingers to make cracking sounds. The caffeine will also make my hands hurt overall. I don’t drink soda or coffee very often (maybe once a week) and EVERY time the next morning,…

Right now construction crews are drilling 34 holes in the ground going 120 feet deep, 10-feet in diameter. These will be the caissons for America’s tallest building, the Chicago Spire to be completed in 2010–or will it be completed? Many…

It’s so much fun to have people come by my desk and enjoy a treat. Everyone should have a treat dish at their desk/cubicle/office. The costs are minimal (a couple bucks a week) and the gain is priceless. Seven reasons…

In one corner we have the new worldwide sensation, the Internet! In the other corner we have the tried and true champion, the Weatherrrrrr! Last night the weather came out on top as it threw a lightning bolt that fried…

A wallet full of two-dollar bills is like carrying around a wallet of joy. People get excited with unexpected encounters of two-dollar bills, and for some people it’s just the regular course. The two-dollar adventure unfolds many personality traits. Getting…

The Beachwood Reporter collected the following: “Descriptions of the taste range from shrimp to canned asparagus to not much at all.”– USA Today “They taste like almonds.”– RedEye “They taste like raw potato.”– Northwest Herald “I found them woodsy and…

If you have a candy jar at work with Hershey’s Kisses, you can make a little recycle box out of a sticky note, here’s an instructable on how to make it. Plus, it’s fun to see how much the foil…

Throughout college and six years after, I was a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 25.4 (5’11” 182 lbs). Technically 25 BMI is considered overweight, which seems a bit odd to me, but anyways. Then I lost 20 pounds through a…

Dove very much needs to offer some sort of rewards points program. Please email Dove¬Æ and tell them to offer one. Here’s what I wrote. Feel free to copy or modify to your pleasure: =========== My dearest Dove, Your dark…