Redneck Fashion

Cruising eBay can lead a person to stumble across pretty interesting things sometimes. Surfing through blogs can have the same effect, only a lot strong, since they’re not regulated like eBay is. But when you combine the two, that my friends, that is when you come across the best stuff.

I forget which blog it was that I was stumbling through at some point today, but I came across waht has to be the height of redneck fashion and, sadly, I want it!

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the glamerous world of Redneck high fashion. Some people might call it stupid, some people might call it ugly, rednecks, we… um, I mean THEY… they call it recycling.The Redneck man needs a good hat to keep the rain from messin’ with his mullet, and now every redneck has one hell of a decision to make: Coors, Coors Light, Keystone Light, Miller, Miller High Life, Miller Lite or Millwaukee’s Best?

Anyway you look at it, you’re still a redneck and you’re still rocking a sexy beer box cowboy hat. But hey, whenever a hippy gives you a hard time for being to creating to much garbage or polluting the air with your broke ass late 70’s Ford truck that’s more rust than truck, you can smile, point to your hat and speak those two words a redneck would never see himself saying: “I recycle!”

Get your very own redneck beer box cowboy hat @ eBay!

How To: Save Money and Take Advantage of Sprint

Through-out my day at work and at home I spend a whole lot of time reading blogs. There are a lot of blogs that I like, but not a great deal that I’m willing to look at serveral times a day; however, one of the blogs that I am willing to check and do check multiple times a day is the consumerist.

The consumerist is ran by two guys that are snarky, witty and fun. Not only is the blog a good read, the guys that run it are out to save everyone a buck and to spread awareness of crappy business practices that so many of todays business’ like to follow. The talk about little known ways to save money, how to deal with certain companys and how to get the best bang for your buck, they even help out people that have been screwed over by companies by sharing their stories and trying to get the company to fix what they’ve screwed up. If you’ve never checked ou the consumerist, it’s certainly worth a read.

Todays how to save a buck and take advantage of Sprint tip comes compliments of the guys at the consumerist. Enjoy!

This sounds like a nifty HowTo on getting Sprint to give you a few extra bucks off your cellphone bill.

1. Call Sprint – 1-800-877-4646
2. Obey the opening instructions.
3. When the system asks, “How may I help you?,” say “dropped call.” The voice should confirm by saying, “Okay dropped call.”
4. Revel in the extra 50 cents or so Sprint gives you.

50 CENTS? Well, that’s for every time you say, “dropped call” until a rep comes on the phone. WikiHow users report an average savings of $11.00. If you abuse it, however, you get nothing, so spank Sprint with prudence.

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Bison at Granville Island

A few weeks ago, before Chrys left for Nebraska, we took a trip to Granville Island to get a haircut and look around and we came across a fantastic new booth. We had never seen this booth in particular there before, so we had to stop and check it out, and it turned out that they were selling any and all forms of Bison you could think of.

The couple running the booth are the owners of the Hanson Bison Ranch in Valhalla Centre, Alberta, where they raise herds of these mamoth creatures.

Chrys and I, being big fans of Buffalo meat, had to pick up some Bison and give it a try, so we picked up a 6 pack of Bison hamburger patties, and let me tell you, they are some of the best damn hamburgers I have ever had. Plain and naked or as a cheese burger with all the fixin’s, these patties make for one heck of a burger. While we were there we also sampled the Bison pepperoni, which was to die for.

Since Bison is obviously a bit of a specialty item, the folks from the Hanson Bison Ranch charge a bit more than you would usually pay for the garden variety beef equivalent, but for meat of this quality and flavor, and born and raised naturally in Canada, its well worth the extra cost. Not to mention Bison is incredibly good for you. I never would have guessed it and we were both taken aback by the information, but Bison is such a lean meat that it has a substantially lower fat and calorie content than hamburger and a much higher amount of protein. Believe it or not, Bison meat has even less fat and calories than chicken! I couldn’t believe that a red meat could be so healthy.

One thing is for sure, I’ll certainly be heading back to Granville Island and the Hanson Bison Ranch to pick up some more Bison.

You can find the Hanson Bison Ranch booth in Granville Island next on October 27th, 28th or 29th from 9:00am – 7:00pm. Or you can order some Bison by visiting their website at: www.hansonbisonranch.com

(per 100g of cooked lean meat)

Species

Fat (g)

Calories (Kcal)

Cholesterol (mg)

Iron (mg)

Bison

2.42

143

82

3.42

Beef

8.09

201

86

2.99

Pork

9.66

212

86

1.10

Chicken

2.00

158

86

0.60

Salmon

12.35

206

63

0.34
Source: Canadian Nutrient File, 2001b

Firefox 2.0 Released Tomorrow

Tomorrow marks yet another big day in the lifespan of Mozilla’s premeire browser, Firefox. The full version of Firefox 2.0 is scheduled to be released by Mozilla mid-afternoon tomorrow, although the full version has already been leaked on numerous sites tonight, to which I won’t post a link as Mozilla has request that people not release the downloads yet and, since Mozilla is behind the awesomeness that is Firefox, I am cool with that.

Firefox has proven itself as browser of far superior innovation and power to that of Microsofts Internet Explorer. The folks at Mozilla update Firefox on a very regular basis and address any and all security issues promptly. Whereas the fools over at MS are more concerned with sticking to a monthly update release schedule than protecting their customers security.

Firefox is my browser of choice and is by and far the best browser available today, and it’s completely free! Don’t forget to download Firefox 2.0 tomorrow.

China to regulate blogging, more so

The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that all bloggers be required to register their blogs with their full, legal names, not screen names. Thought they would be allowed to blog under their desired screen names, they would be forced to register their blogs with their real names, giving the government of China all the information they need to go after a blogger that talks about something they don’t want them to talk about.

“The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said on Monday, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content.”

Heaven forbid the internet be about freedom and be used as a medium for expression and sharing of information, why that would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Its hard to imagine what life in a country like China would be like. So many liberties and freedoms are witheld from the people, supposedly for their own good. People complain about living in Canada and the US all the time, but compared to countries like China, we’ve got it great. All I can hope for is that it stays this way, but with the governments and Canada and the US being controlled by crazy conservatives, who knows where we could be headed.

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Weird Vancouver Sightings

I could have been suffering from delusions as a result of not yet having my morning Americano, but I saw the weirdest thing while walking down W 10th to the bus this morning. I could have sworn that I passed Kim Jong-Il walking a shitzu. I had to do a double take to be sure, but I swear it was him. Maybe he’s hiding out in Vancouver now?

I never would have pegged Kim Jong-Il as a Shitzu person, but the more I got to thinking about it while on the bus (yeah, this is what I do in the morning), the more it made sense. The Shitzu is such an ass backwards inbred breed of dog that it would likely be one of the few things to survive a nuclear explosion. What else would Kim Jong-Il look for in a good pet? Its smaller than him, uglier than him and would survive a nuke. Sounds like a pretty reasonable choice to me.

Maybe he’s got more in common with Paris Hilton then one would think?

PNE Fright Nights Coupon

Halloween is fast approaching and this coupon might come in use for all of you Vancouerites that plan on going to the PNE’s annual Fright Nights. Just go to the site below and enter the coupon code: 06EBAY and you will receive a $5 discount on your tickets.

PNE Hallow Fright Nights Coupon:
http://order.affinity-tickets.com/edirect/member_pne.php