Weekend 6.29-30-7.1 - Miller's off next week, back Monday 7.9
We
have a winner in the "coolest dad ever" contest - it's the guy out in
Sacramento who built a fire-truck bed for his five-year-old son.
With working fire-truck parts. No hose, obviously, but there's
lights and sirens and a stereo and a scanner and a ladder and authentic
fire-truck decals and real tires and Mr. J. now feels like the lamest
dad ever.
Thursday 6.28
Next time you're flying and get delayed, and the airline tries to weasel
something by you about the delay being about to end, any minute now,
really, remember this
video from a guy trying to get from JFK to Dallas earlier this week:
FYI, in response to listener
inquiries: Yes, we'll be producing and running Young Entrepeneurs spots
pretty much all summer. So if you're the parent (or grandparent) of a
youngster (8-14ish) who's looking to earn extra money this summer, get
in touch with us at
morningmix@mix97fm.com. We'll put together a
30-second spot for pretty much anything: lemonade stands, lawn-mowing,
caddying, errand-running, pool-cleaning, house-sitting, and so forth.
Plus there'll be a small display ad for the fledgling business here on
the Morning Mix page. It's your call. If we get enough interest, we'll
set up a whole page for all the listings. (FFYI: we're shooting to get
the first ad up by this Friday.)
Supposedly,
this Craigslist posting is actually a yard sale for all kinds of
props from The Sopranos.
Father's Day news:
stay-at-home dads are worth
10 grand less than stay-at-home moms. What the...?
Cool barbecuing tool of the
year? The
Grillslinger. Solves those common grilling issues: like when those
hooks on the grill never seem to work quite right for hanging
things...and when your beverage is juuuuust out of reach as you slave
over the fire.
So this fat dumpy warehouse worker from
Wales goes on the UK's version of American Idol - it's got Simon
Cowell and everything. He's pasty, bad teeth, lousy haircut, cheap suit.
Loves himself some opera, though. Still, the panel is noticeably skeptical. And
then...
Wednesday 6.13
40 years of Sergeant
Pepper's? Been there done that. Try the Detroit Free Press's great
series on
40
years of R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Tuesday 6.12
If you ever needed to find
the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island,
here you go.
A true monster of a
time-waster:
solitaire Scrabble. Play against the robot and you'll probably get
beat. Bad.
Monday 6.11
If you've got a child (ages
8-14) who's planning on opening up a lemonade stand or a similar
kid's-first-step-into-capitalism venture this summer, the crack production team at
the Morning Mix is ready to help promote it with your child's very own
30-second commercial on the Morning Mix, plus a prominent feature here
on the MM page. We'll be talking about this more for the rest of the
week (and into the summer), but we figured we'd give the regular MM page checkers a
semi-secret heads-up. So if your child is interested, send us the
particulars - name, age, type of event, location of the event, date and
hours, contact info, and anything else of interest, like whether they're
saving up for college or toys or donating the proceeds to charity. And
so forth. Pictures are good to send us for the ad we'll place here on
the MM page. Whatever you and your little one think will close the sale.
Send the info to
morningmix@mix97fm.com. (Kids, we know you might
very well be smarter than your parents, but get their okay on this one
before you get in touch. Parents, only send us information you're 100%
totally okay with us putting on the air and on the web.)
As mentioned on the show at
8:55, here's the cat-in-the-fishbowl video:
Wednesday 6.6
We found this game called Blufr that
looks like an amazing timewaster. You can refresh your screen and a
fresh Bluf will come up. Let us know what you think of it and maybe
we'll keep it around:
We found a food that's older
than that hot dog Miller left on the grill last fall and didn't discover
until Sunday. Behold:
the 2100 year old melon.
For the ladies: create your
ideal guy and keep him in your
manquarium.
If you think gas prices are
high here,
take a look at what they're like elsewhere.
Article also has a great explanation about why all those gas boycotts
are thoroughly useless.
Monday 6.4
Timewaster: a twisted little
IQ test called
Lumosity.
If you're handy with the
tools, here's some
free plans for kids toys (PDFs) from the power-toolmongers at Bosch.
Weekend 6.1-3
If you're feeling all sweaty
this weekend, take a look at these frozen waves in Newfoundland. Brrrrrr:
