Filed under: Cocktails Snowballs have to be one of my all-time favorite New Orleans treats. I once spent a whole summer trying to track down a "wedding cake"-flavored snowball whose sugary syrup made the ball of shaved ice taste exactly like store-bought icing. So I was more than intrigued when I wa...

8oz Burger Bar is yet another contender in the burger+beer category that has been hyped by places like Father’s Office. Unlike Father’s Office, the burgers here are highly customizable. The beer selection may not be as good, but it’s a small price to pay for not having to deal with...

The mysterious Grecian Marble cocktail... My lovely and talented girlfriend has had a cocktail in the past that she says was called a Grecian Marble. What she can remember of it suggests the ingredient list included both creme de menthe and creme de cocoa, ouzo, ice cream and possibly other ingredie...

The following reprinted from Uncle John's Giant 10th Anniversary Bathroom Reader. Got an idea but no paper to write it down? Don't worry, just do what these people did and grab whatever's in front of you and start scribbling: Written on: A cocktail napkin By: Rollin King and Herb Kelleher The Story:...

Remember those $8 ice balls? Yeah, i bought a bag too. What can I say, I was drunk and my credit card was on the desk. Anyway, pi ice. They're ice cubes in the shape of the pi symbol. The reusable tray is available from Thinkgeek for 9 bones. I bought one, and I even went so far as to make my own dr...

Mom's never been much of a drinker, which is not a bad thing...but she's been having issues drifting off to meet Nemo in Slumberland for the last couple years, and I got to thinking perhaps in lieu of the prescription sleep aids that make her cuckoo-bananas-loopy, we may get her a little tipsy and s...

Downgraded: Cocktails as tourist marketing Thailand’s tourist managers have concocted a mixed drink to personify the spirit of the nation, or so they claim in their heavy-handed marketing blitz. A “Siam Sunrays” cocktail “consists of a shot of vodka, coconut liqueur, a dash o...

Back in September at the TechCrunch50 event I wrote a brief post about the top 10 products I wanted to try as of Day 2. Today I can honestly say that there is only one product on that list that I still use everyday - it’s OtherInbox. I set it up shortly after TC50 and started seeing the benefi...

Football is like life: it has a playbook, and when it breaks down, people get hurt. Enjoy. The play begins thusly. We play the part of the quarterback, labeled here as O/S. The idea: to successfully pitch our way through an evening of socializing at a party in DC with the pitchman, our friend the lo...

Affable expense tracking If you’ve ever been on the side of frustrated when it comes to managing expenses and budgets, you’re not alone. It’s ironic that today, in an age when just about everyone has online access to their entire lives, that there’s not an expense tracking so...