Articles from April 2012

In just a short amount of time, Pintrest has become one of the most popular social networks in the world.   Earlier this year, it became the fastest site to have more than 10 million unique visitors in a month, when it eclipsed 11.7 million visitors in January 2012 (which is just slightly more than Living with Balls receives).

What makes this even more remarkable is that 83 percent of the visitors in the United States are women. It’s amazing that Pintrest is doing so well despite failing to appeal to half the world’s population.

Every woman I know is obsessed with this site.  Mrs. Sacks loves to just aimlessly scan through its iPhone app for hours at a time, completely ignoring me.  I tried using Pintrest but could not get into it. Pintrest is filled with baking recipes, cute photos of cats and lame inspirational platitudes.  There just isn’t much there for men.

But recently, a new site came out, called Punch Pin, which is the same exact concept as Pintrest, only the items posted are for men.  The look of the site is very similar. You may not even notice the difference at first, until you see the pictures of women with large breasts scattered throughout.  The site has plenty of other categories that a guy could spend hours browsing through, such as gadgets, beers, DIY projects and man caves, in addition to all the pictures of beautiful women.

It’s definitely a great time-wasting site, so be sure to check it out.

A better kind of fantasy baseball

I’ve been playing fantasy baseball for many years now. Baseball is my favorite sport and I follow it more closely than any other sport, yet I have yet to win a fantasy baseball title—EVER. It’s beyond frustrating. It seems like no matter how hard I prepare for a draft, or how closely I monitor free agents during the season, something always goes wrong. This season is already shaping up to be another shitty one.  When it comes to fantasy baseball, I subscribe to Murphy’s Law—the belief that anything that can go wrong, WILL go wrong.

Here is my “Fantasy Baseball Murphy’s Law” list

The perennial all-star you draft in the first round will have the worst year of his career the year you draft him

The following year, when you pass him over, he will dominate the league

The ace pitcher you draft will announce he is having Tommy John surgery two days after your draft ended

Your best closer will lose the job one month into the season

The guy in your league with five closers will pick up his replacement minutes before you do (more…)

I was browsing through the online catalog for Hammacher Schlemmer the other day— or as I like to call it, the catalog for people who have more money than they know what to do with—and I was blown away by some of the crazy items they have for sale there.

A while back, I wrote a post about some of the crazy stuff that can be found on Hammacher Schlemmer, but with my recent visit to their site I’ve learned that they have managed to top themselves.

Let’s take a look at some of the most recent outlandish items for sale at Hammacher Schlemmer.

The Killer Whale Submarine

A quick glance at the picture above appears to show a killer whale leaping out of the water.  But it is actually a two-person submarine.   Just take a look at this description…

This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the Orcinus orca after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2″-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale’s pectoral fins for rolls and stealthy dives. With a finger on the right lever’s throttle trigger, steering is provided by dual foot pedals that control the vectored thrust of the craft’s 255-hp supercharged Rotax axial flow engine, enabling realistic behaviors such as porpoising or skyhopping. It can hydroplane up to 50 mph over the water’s surface and it can cruise up to 25 mph while submerged; its dorsal fin’s integrated snorkel ensures air supply to the engine up to a depth of 5′. The cockpit’s dashboard includes a speedometer, tachometer, engine and air pressure gauges, and an LCD that displays live video from the dorsal fin’s built-in camera. Vinyl seats with closed-cell foam upholstery and four-point racing harnesses ensure pilot and passenger safety. (more…)