Thought I would share this one with you and ask what others do. As I do yacht deliveries, we often have to carry spare fuel in cans and use this to top up the tanks when making passage. Pouring fuel can be a difficult job as the fillers are usually outside the rails and, with the boat heaving around...

"Senator Joe Simitian: Your cell phone law sucks." [via Mercury News] That's the blunt message on a large billboard off Highway 101 south of the IKEA store in East Palo Alto. Who is behind this? A fellow named Grant Paulson of Pleasanton, who despises California's hands-free cell phone law, authored...

British sailor Dee Caffari became the first woman to sail solo and non-stop both ways around the world today when she completed the Vendée Globe yacht race. The 36-year-old from Titchfield in Hampshire immediately phoned her shore team to order a ham and mushroom pizza and Diet Coke to be delivered...

After almost 100 days alone at sea taking part in one of the most gruelling sporting events, Sam Davies could be forgiven for looking forward to a little time off. But last night as she was on the brink of becoming the first Briton to complete the latest Vendée Globe solo round-the-world yach...

NOTE: Video is clean version but still has lots of bleeping out since every other word is a bad one. Watch at full volume. This is the latest from The Lonely Island, the SNL crew that made a music album. The song, I'm On A Boat, is about being on a boat. Which *yawn* is nothing special if you're a p...

Saturday night pizzas and sparkling rosés. A cake in oven* after the pizzas. Then chocolate chip biscuits and earl greys. And we were telling stories of stories by telling the stories. Because the best way to describe a story is to tell it. What a wonderful thing to be a real teller of stories, to ...

It took me a while to figure this tagging the 4th thing out. O, Docker started it and Bonnie passed it on. Capn' JP tagged me and so here's the damn deal. I have been tagged by JP to post......

Listen carefully.  I thought that Barack Obama was nervous, which he probably was, but Chief Justice John Roberts messed up the oath. Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will fait...

It was 0200 on a dark and clear night in the Sea of Cortez - also known as the Gulf of California. We were motoring along at 1600 rpm in a 1985 40 foot O’Day sailboat making about 3 knots, the oil pressure was wavering between 7 and 15 pounds, (the engine was rated for 50 pounds) and the engine al...

Earlier in the week, we posted a remix that the Budapest-based We Plants Are Happy Plants (WPAHP) did of fellow Hungarian electro heads Tits & Clits.  And now, to finish the week off right, we've just gotten our hands on some fresh-as-hell new, original tracks.  Peter Bergmann has created thes...