Archive for September, 2010

It’s late.  You’re at the bar and you’re eyeing someone.  Just keep this factoid from Your Smart Phone Says a Lot About You in mind…

OkCupid.com asked its users what kind of phones they use, and then for the 9,785 users who had smart phones, collated that data (on an anonymous basis) with their number of sexual partners. The findings: Women iPhone users had an average of 12.3 partners by the time they turned 30, compared with 8.8 partners for their counterparts who use a BlackBerry, and a mere 6 for those who use Androids. The numbers were similar for 30-year-old men iPhone users.

According to a recent news story, napping is permittable at the workplace.  At first, I thought it was great news.  I can have that long lunch, with the extra side of nice-full-belly.  Hell , I can even knock back a few wobbly pops knowing that some shut eye is just around the corner.  But then I read this in the article: “If you have employees working 16-hour days, you want to give them an opportunity to take a power nap.”

And that sucks.  Who needs 16 hour workdays?  Let’s be real – people are already short changing themselves on sleep, and with footbtall season upon us, that only worsens the matter. For most fellas, football season means less sleep and more hangovers.  The male species has spent decades perfecting the ability to awakewn on Monday, hungover and stinky, yet somehow getting to work in a comatosed state and coasting through the day in a “laying low” kind of operation.  My friend Matt used to refer to this as his “tax day” for the week.  You know, the day at work you don’t do anything to make up for the money you lose in taxes. I don’t care what you call it, but work naps plus football season equals win in my opinion.

Hurricane season is still in full swing and much of the East coast is experiencing it first hand with Hurricane Earl barreling through. With that in mind, we wanted to take a few minutes to talk BBQ safety. Maybe this post should better be labeled, “love your smoker”.

Make sure you don’t leave your BBQ partner in crime sitting out in the rain for the storms, guys. First, your smoker treats you better than that so you should take care of the lil’ guy. Second, the last thing you need is some poorly named hurricane (Earl? Seriously? What’s scary about as storm named EARL? Call it the Kraken and I’ll run.) picking up your grill and hurling it into your house, your neighbors house, the woods, or all the way to Oz to land on some bitchy lady with bad socks.

So do what it takes to keep your grill and safe and in good condition. Take the extra time to put her to bed in the garage, your shed, or at the very least put a cover an secure it to something solid with a chain.

OK, Some of us here at Bully Life are giant nerds. Even those of us that aren’t, can certainly appreciate the genius-level DIY projects that get featured regularly in Make Magazine. Recently, make featured Peter Rauch, who put together a great little smoker and meat timer from scratch.

Any BBQ junky or foodie that watches Alton Brown has probably seen the terracotta flower pot smoker before, but Rauch took this approach to epic proportions by making a DIY controller that manages the heat of the electric heating element and provides alarms for the meat temperature. All bundled up in a sleek little touchscreen interface. Here’s to you BBQ Man! Go check out the article at Make, but be sure to tell us about your own DIY BBQ exploits. If we think your story is praise worthy, we’ll send you a big Bully Life shout out here in the blog and maybe even send you some swag!