She's engaged to who?

I'm sorry I've been so behind on posts. But the truth is, I've been in a bit of a daze since I found out that Angie Everhart is engaged to Joe Pesci. I mean...come on! I know that famous actors and musicians are capable of pulling incredibly disproportionate tail, but...Joe Pesci and Angie Everhart? There has to be a line somewhere... We're talking about arguably one of the hottest women to ever walk the face of this earth. We're talking about one of the three supermodels responsible for jumpstarting my puberty (Everhart, Kathy Ireland and Elle MacPherson for those scoring at home). Joe Pesci?

Anyway...new posts coming in the New Year.

Linkage

God bless TCG's secondary alma mater. Although I can't say I really blame the professor. I mean, how can you possibly prepare a COM grad for post-college life without teaching them about drinking?

Makes total sense...I mean, from a public policy perspective of course...

I'm slowly being persuaded that maybe New Hampshire is on the right path. Cool villages, beautiful scenery, lots of beer, candlepin bowling -- find me a good modified-fastpitch softball team and I may be all set to move.

An argument for taxes

College professor figures the services he spends $9,000 annually in taxes for would cost him $56,000+ in private sector if Libertarians had their way.

Artsy-fartsy pools

Once in a while my artsy-farsty side gets tickled.

This is one of those times.

How about "Sun-burned Irishman pink"?

I'm not really going to add any comments to this.

I just thought its definately worth posting.

NH knows how to party!

Here's a map depicting the highest rates of drinking per capita. Massachusetts comes in at 9.3 liters annually, which puts us just above Greece and right below the Netherlands. (You can suck it, Texas!)

Most surpringly is our Granite neighbors to the north: New Hampshire residents apparantly drink the second-highest amount of alcohol of any country, state, territory in the world! Only Luxembourg clocks in higher!

I'm not sure if its surprising or unsurprising that Washington D.C. is third. Guees you can't blame them -- Bush and the GOP's will drive anyone to drink!

FOLO: Yea, apparantly I was trying to set the world record for most exclamation points in a blog posting. It's like I'm a 12-year-old girl talking about Zac Effron.

And with the number 3 pick in the 2008 draft...

OK, it's well past time that I start this thing back up. No more excuses. It's blog time baby.

I'm going to lead off with a Patriots postl this one from barstoolsports.com. For those of you not familiar with it, it's the daily blog for the Barstool Sports mag you see sprinkled around the streets of Boston. I really couldn't care much for the mag itself (it's a local version of Maxim, without the talented writers or any sort of design), but the blog is a freakin' hoot.

This posting is about one of my favorite factoids of the season: that (hypothetically speaking) the Patriots could run the table AND STILL wind up with a Top 3 pick in the draft. Thanks San Fran! That's the biggest con job since the 86 Celtics landed the Number 2 pick in that years' draft.

Although, I guess, that situation didn't exactly work out very well.

Anyway, unless 1987's Bo Jackson is making himself draft eligible this year, I don't think the Pats keep the pick: I think they spin it off for a grab bag of picks down the line.

Im outta here!

Johnnys vid

KJ

Reinert video

Somethign familiar about this...

Apparantly Hillary Clinton is having a contest for hew campaign theme song. And the campaign is teasing the winner with a Sopranos style video. It's corny, and Hillary comes off stiff as usual, but the ex-Pres is great as is the cameo by Johnny Sack.
Worth checking out.

Clark, the Canadian goalie shortstop

Who were the ad wizards....

Some unfortunate logos. It took a minute for me to see the problem with the one on the left -- but its there.

Link-o-rama

A couple cool links today...

First, a table saw that knows when you're about to slice off your finger. Watch the hot dog demonstration! This will be on my wedding registry...

Second, a collection of athletes that resemble sports logos. My favorite is the Demon Deacon and Judge Doom from "Roger Rabbit"

Third, a field guide to identifying d-bags.

Fourth, WARNING: EDUCATION ALERT! A visual explanation of the migration of man. I found it interesting, but then again, I'm a nerd.

And finally, a hysterical video containing the possible words to Pearl Jam's "Yellow Ledbetter."

Factoid of the day: Apparantly Dubya can benchpress more than Kevin Durant. Sounds like he's fit enough to go lead the troops into battle! Go get 'em commander-in-chief!

Take my life...please!

Courtesy of my sister in Texas (the executin' state!) comes news of the death-row inmate who wants to tell a joke on the day of his execution. If he has any sense of humor at all, he'll tell "The Aristocrats."

With a Little Help From My Discography

Judge quotes 42 Beatles song titles in issuing jail sentence. Convict brings it on himself when he originally recommended the court should just "Let it be" after spelling the band's name wrong.

BRILLIANT!

This week's winner of the "Why hasn't anyone ever thought of that before?" award:

Draws in stairs! Jeebus, how much sense does that make!

Walk this line

I'm pretty sure I played on this field once.

Transformers in high-res

In advance of the new Transformer movie, Michael Bay has released some of the new looks for Optimus Prime, Starscream, Megatron et al.

Holy complexity, Batman!

New links!

Both of these are from a cool new website, wallstreetfighter.com

Just a caution: some of the site's ads may be a bit NSFW.

Word of caution to the schoolkids: Before you choose C for all the answers, make sure its not a true or false test.

Also, a cool collection of rugs. I personally like the Space Invaders and Crime Scene ones.

How will it end?

Slate is running a great he said/he said on the Sopranos in the form of letters back and forth between Jeffrey Greenberg and Timothy Noah. I think they're right on about a number of points, especially how David Chase will likely leave all sorts of loose ends in the series finale. Check it out.

From way downtown!

Scots + sheep tossing = Funny. And that's not even including the whole Tracy McGracy returning to his roots part.

Why I like golf

Now this is a country music video!

David Halberstam, 1934-2007

Got to admit, I'm pretty sad about this one. David Halberstam, to me, is just an icon in journalism and long-form storytelling. Although every reporter says they want to be like Hunter S. Thompson, most secretly would be happy beind David Halberstam. He wrote well but used simple language. He wrote interestingly about interesting and important subjects. And he was brave enough to write honestly and impartially about a fateful war well before it was the popular thing to do. "Making of a Quagmire" should be required reading for any journalism or modern history student.

As much as I enjoy the new breed of modern essayists like Chuck Klosterman, I can't help but miss people like George Plimpton, Hunter Thompson, and Halberstam.

Anti-weed promo

Don't see how this is any better than the Super Bowl Snickers commercial...but maybe that's because its on Canadian TV and not American. It's funny no matter what.

Smells like teen suckitude

Should these kids get a break since they're only in the 6th grade? I say no. You get no bonus points when you can't even angrily fire off your hoodie.

Pitcher runs fah rah rah rah rah

Something a little lighter today. This may be the greatest unsuccessful attempt to start a basebrawl.

Stolen from BSG

Cowardly massacre victims?

Sigh. Stolen from Keith Olbermann, here's some thoughts from some right-wingers on the Virginia Tech massacre.

First, from Nathanael Blake, of HumanEvents.com:

College classrooms have scads of young men who are at their physical peak, and none of them seems to have done anything beyond ducking, running, and holding doors shut. Meanwhile, an old man hurled his body at the shooter to save others. Something is clearly wrong with the men in our culture. Among the first rules of manliness are fighting bad guys and protecting others: in a word, courage. And not a one of the healthy young fellows in the classrooms seems to have done that.

When Kip Kinkle opened fire in Thurston High School a few years back, he was taken down by students, led by one who was already wounded. Why didn’t that happen here?

And from John Derbyshire, of nationalreviewonline.com

As NRO's designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn't anyone rush the guy? It's not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness' sake—one of them reportedly a .22.

At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him. Handguns aren't very accurate, even at close range. I shoot mine all the time at the range, and I still can't hit squat. I doubt this guy was any better than I am. And even if hit, a .22 needs to find something important to do real damage—your chances aren't bad.

Yes, yes, I know it's easy to say these things: but didn't the heroes of Flight 93 teach us anything? As the cliche goes—and like most cliches. It's true—none of us knows what he'd do in a dire situation like that. I hope, however, that if I thought I was going to die anyway, I'd at least take a run at the guy.

I want my money!

Holy crap this is funny!
But in a small way I do feel bad for the kid...I mean you're two years old and Daddy has taught you to say obscene things to his buddy Will Ferrell and then tapes it. That's some good parenting.

Explosions rock!

This guy has the coolest job in the world. The shockwave is pretty awesome.

Farewell # 11 part 2

Just a follow-up to Thursday's Bledsoe post.

Dan LaMothe at masslive.com has a good roundup of Drew Bledsoe tribute videos, from an actually on-the-level Steve Burton joint, do the sublime, featuring music by The Who and Eminem.

Funny stuff.

Why we need VH1 Classic

Everyone knows the main riff to this song. But the video must be watched for all its true 70s glory.
Nor sure what I like best: the frontier setting, the keyboardist sashaying his way through the video, the Native American dancing girls...so I'm just going to go with the mustaches.

So long, Drew

Drew Bledsoe is retiring and I can't help but post a few thoughts.

I know that he's become the butt of some jokes, that he has a penchant for throwing game-ending/drive-killing back-footed interceptions, that a block of concrete is more mobile in the pocket than he is.

But I still think New England Patriots fans should raise one high for #11.

Before Drew Bledsoe, Hugh Millen was our freakin' quarterback. The team sucked (think Bruins, but even worse) and there was a good chance they were going to be relocated to St. Louis.

Bledose arrives, Parcells takes over and three years later the Patriots are in the Super Bowl.

Is there any male between the ages of 25 and 40 who doesn't remember the 1994 game against the Minneota Vikings?

I remained in Bledsoe's camp much longer than most did -- still convinced he'd be OK with a better O-line and running game. But there's no doubting the game has changed and classic pocket quarterbacks aren't long for the league any more. Especially those with shaken confidence who hold onto the ball too long.

Tom Brady is the man now, but New England fans should still give at least Bledsoe a mental Standing Ovation if for no other reason than he's just a decent guy who played the game hard. He could have moped and complained publically about being benched for Brady, instead he just held the clipboard, came off the bench and won the AFC Championship game against the Steelers, and then helped celebrate when the Patriots won the Super Bowl.

He may not be Hall of Fame material, but his acheivements with the Patriots should not be forgotten.

That's a nice Van Dyke you got there

It's also that time of the year for my favorite non-televised sporting event -- the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
Here's Team USA!
Be sure to check out the photos of past champions!

Nooooooooooooo!!!!

Stupid Bee Gee.

Not even a flesh wound?

Good to see that Terry Jones still has his fastball. Just a skewering piece of satire about the recent Iranian hostage crisis.

What is so appalling is the underhand way in which the Iranians have got her "unhappy and stressed". She shows no signs of electrocution or burn marks and there are no signs of beating on her face. This is unacceptable. If captives are to be put under duress, such as by forcing them into compromising sexual positions, or having electric shocks to their genitals, they should be photographed, as they were in Abu Ghraib. The photographs should then be circulated around the civilised world so that everyone can see exactly what has been going on.

A swing and a drive...WAY BACK!

I'm not one to advocate on behalf of child abuse...but this kid definately had it coming. Nobody messes with Frank Thomas.

Mastery at the Masters

Now THIS is a professional athlete.

BOOOOOOO!

Yet another reason why proper physical education classes should be taught in schools. This is just terrible. Terrible! This gets a big Rick Collins double thumbs down.

Her humps, eh?

One thing I"ve always appreciated about Alanis Morisette is she seems to have a good sense of humor about herself. Which is why I like this video, even though she seems to be channeling Tori Amos.

I'm holding out for the A-Team van...

Ever want to own Kitt, from Knight Rider? Here's your chance!

Just be ready to bid heavy against Gustaf, president of David Hasselhoff's German fan club.

My favorite math puzzle...

Let me know if you can figure this one out...Its like some mathematical oddity.

Three men decided to split the cost of a hotel room.

The hotel manager gave them a price of $30.The men split the bill evenly, each paying $10, and went to their room. However, the hotel manager realized that it was a Wednesday night, which meant the hotel had a special: rooms were only $25. He had overcharged them $5!

He called the bellboy, gave him five one-dollar bills and told him to return it to the men.When the bellboy explained the situation to the men, they were so pleased at the honesty of the establishment that they promptly tipped the bellboy $2 of the $5 he had returned and each kept $1 for himself.

So each of the three men ended up paying $9 (their original $10, minus $1 back) totalling $27, plus $2 for the bellboy makes $29.Where did the extra dollar go?

Somewhere Earl Weaver is smiling

In honor of rapidly-approaching Opening Day, I present perhaps the greatest manager/umpire argument EVVVVVVER!

Check that CEO's papers!

The Onion has launched a new broadcast news service. As expected, it's great. This report studies the effects immigration has had on America boardrooms. Aside from the "They're takin' errr jawwwbs" overtones, I like the direct shots at corporate culture.

But can he pick up the full Worcester?

Aside from the assumption that Our Lord, Sweet Baby Jesus would throw only strikes, I'm still not sure this marks His return. I mean, what's up with that form? My Savior is throwing perfect hooks with a form that would make Dick AND Pete Weber cry.

Manning hates your kids

I've never been a Payton Manning hater. Sure, I prefer when he's walking off the field, shaking his head, his lips pursed, wondering where that safety came from (see left). But overall, there's a lot bigger chumps in this world than Manning I'd rather rage at.

Which is why this clip from his appearance on SNL is a riot. I'm pretty sure for the football clips, he just watched old footage of Dan Marino.

But has Jobu taught Wily Mo how to hit the curve yet?

A pretty dead on comparison between this year's Red Sox and the cast of Major League II. Frankly my favorite thought is the potential Dice-K/Wily Mo confrontation.

At least Cosby is funny

Apparantly there's some palace intrigue about Carlos Mencia stealing jokes from other comedians. Here's a supposed example of him ripping off Bill Cosby.

And here's a clip of Joe Rogan confronting Mencia on stage about stealing jokes. Gee, Im not sure which side I'm on in that conversation. It's like rooting for Exxon vs. Starbucks. Everyone loses.

Jim Henson rocks

Consider me the driver of the "Jim Henson was a freakin' comic genius" bandwagon.

Courtesy of Johnny Rockstar -- who somehow gets paid to find cool youtube clips -- here are a couple short classic Sesame Street clips that are funny even now.

This one could be entitled "Rachel and Rick on a Sunday afternoon." Guess who is who.

In this one, the Count launches a diabolical plan to count letters. My favorite part are the obvious ad libs as the puppeteers start to have a little fun with the bats.

Animal is one of my favorites. Here he is being interviewed by Kermit about his drums. Animal, btw, not a fan of the pun. This one is Animal vs. Rita Moreno. And finally, Animal gets schooled by Buddy Rich in a drum-off, and is gracious in defeat.

Hipster baby clothing

With smarm and irreverence the main currency of the post-GenX world, this new line of baby clothing makes total sense.

And does anyone actually use the term Gen-X anymore?

NBAers are tall

A collection of NBAers posing with drunk girls. Worth a couple minutes of perusing. Safe for work.

Larry Legend, crazy ladies, and ... sympathy cards for what?

Here's a link-a-lanche for ya...

Larry Legend doing what Larry Legend did best.

Boy they really do have greeting cards for everything now. Can't wait to see the Hallmark commercial for this one...

Not sure what would prompt an R-rating for the Transformers movie, unless Starscream and Skyfire finally end the charade and let their true feelings take over... By the way, did yoiu know Steven Spielberg is involved in the movie? Neither did I.

Hey Britney, now THIS is how you do crazy! Be sure to wait until she tries the roach killer al fresco.

And finally, this is just a brilliant idea. Can't believe all of these are real names. What are parents thinking?

Links stolen from BSG, fark.com, perezhilton.com

Sports Guys picks

For those trying to figure out their brackets, here's Bill Simmons' picks...

Frankly, I'm just posting it because it contains the line: "Winthrop (11), Creighton (10), Xavier (9) These teams sound like three preppie friends from a New England boarding school."

McCain wants you...to gamble

Now THIS is a guy who understand the Internet and how it can be used to lure in potential supporters...

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is hosting his own NCAA tournament pool, and invites you to play along. And because you have to enter an E-mail address to play, it gives McCain an instant mailing list. Smart man.

Unfortunately, he loses points for a lack of cujones in his picks...the 4 number 1 seeds in the Final 4? Boo! I want my president to take chances! I mean, when national security ISN'T involved...

Blogging from Iraq

Well not me...but these guys are.

From what I understand, the two Iraqi guys running this blog (I think they're brothers) spent time in America and are now back living in Baghdad. They may ultimately turn out to have an agenda, but for now the blog's an interesting read on daily life in Baghdad, how everyday Iraqis are looking at the war, and some inside baseball about the Iraqi parliament.

Johnny Lawrence gets his revenge!

Quite frankly I'm floored by this clip.

I mean I understand time hasn't been good to them, but Billy Zabka, Martin Kove and the rest of the Cobra Kai decide to reunite for the video to "Sweep the Leg" by No More Kings. Who? Plus you have a reenactment of the Hill Valley Karate tournament, Zabka roller-blading in a pink speedo with a Larry Bird mustache, Dennis Hastings filling in for the departed-but-not forgotten Pat Morita and even a cameo by Ralph Macchio? Not to mention the Tex Cobb/Raising Arizona reference.

How has this not been a national news story, complete with appearances on Conan O'Brien?

I guess it helps that Zabka directed the vid.

Now THIS is spin...

Apparantly in Backwards Town, being found guilty on 4 of 5 charges of obstruction of justice and perjury means you've actually been found not guilty overall.

At least according to FoxNews.

Chris Simon cheapshot

I first heard about this listening to Dale and Holley this morning and thought "If Dale Arnold is calling for this guy to be kicked out for a long time, he musta done something pretty bad."

Then I saw it and its pretty shocking. It looks like something Ogie Ogilthorpe would do. Goes beyond Eddie Shore old-tyme hockey and way worse than what Bertuzzi or McInnis did.

Cleanliness is next to what-li-ness?

Good column from the San Francisco Chronicle on how Hollywood cleans up newsrooms. And I'm not just talking about the language, and the reporters, and the clothes, but also how literally the newsrooms look clean.

I don't have any dying plants on my desk, but I did just throw out an 18-month old package of peanut butter crackers that had become lost in one of my desk drawers.

Video craziness

Here are some video clips to help you while away your day...

Some friends decide to re-enact scenes from "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out" live. courtesy of JZ

What beats multiple clips of golf-related groin shots and temper tantrums? Not much... courtesy of Angry Man

...But this clip comes pretty close. You know those dunk tank clows at the fair that insult you? Ever want to assault one of them? Well this guy actually tried to. courtesy JZ

Your Quarterback, #12, Shawn Kemp!

Sigh. I don't know if this is true. But if it is, there's two potential reactions:

1) He is the man! Just induct him into the playa AND football halls of fame right now!

2) Wait...does this mean he's going to be too busy attending LaMaze classes and changing diapers during next season?

UPDATE: The gossip sheets say this isn't true. Still, can we get him a refresher health class, just to be safe?

He should have gave them the run-around

Everyone's favorite overweight, flak-jacket wearing harp player is in legal trouble again.

Or rather, as I see it, some harmonica-hating staties doctored their radar guns to read 111 mph, and then planted four rifles, nine handguns, a switchblade knife, a Taser and night vision goggles on his person.

To be fair, the pot was probably his.

Bill Russell, hall-of-famer or crank?

As I watched the opening seconds of this clip late last night (actually, early this morning) I could be heard audibly pleading, "Please God, no, no, Bill, don't do this," fearful that Celtics legend Bill Russell was about to become Daily Show fodder.

Fortunately, it had a happy and very, very funny ending.

For the record, I wasn't a fan of hers originally, but Samantha Bee has definately grown on me.

Save Borat!

Apparantly satire can be taken seriously.

Sasha Baron Cohen's battle with Kazakhstan over the use of www.borat.kz had made the State Department's annual human rights report, according to Reuters. Pissed that Borat was making fun of their country, Kazakhstan pulled Cohen's rights to use the .kz domain in Nov. 2005. This was cited in the report as an example of the Kazakhstan's "restrictions on freedom of speech and other abuses."

So for those scoring at home, yanking websites = bad; photographs of country bumpkins posing with naked prisoners of war = mezza mezza.

I can only hope high school chapters of Amnesty International will start staying after school to write letters on Borat's behalf...

Journalism 101: People actually read your stuff

Count me among the legions who think that, while supremely talented, Ron Borges is mainly just a big D-Bag.

For those looking for a good summation of all the events leading up to the suspension of the sportswriter who once beat up a guy wearing a neckbrace, I give you Cold Hard Football Facts, which has held a public grudge against Borges since they accused him in January of ripping off a story of theirs on the long-past Cleveland Browns dynasty . Gee, sound familiar?

To me, the moral of this whole thing will be -- aside from the standard "attribute your material" basic J-School lessons -- if you're going to be provocative, don't also be a jerk, because then you'll just have a whole host of enemies scouring your work looking for ways to pull you down. I bet this whole thing wouldn't have exploded this big if it involved someone like Tony Massarotti or Tom Curren.

P.S. I probably should change that above sentence to "the sportswriter who allegedly once beat up a guy wearing a neckbrace." Can never be too careful with those journalistic standards, ya know.

K-Fed gets a job...googling himself

Now this is a deal if I've ever heard one. In fact, it seems almost too good to be true.

Ever want to chill with K-Fed? No? Well, what if he promised to spend the night telling you Crazy Britney stories? Maybe? Good enough...

All you have to do is switch from that boring, stuffy old Google search engine, and scan the Internets using the only search engine officially endorsed by Kevin Federline. So that's mad sizzerches, plus, you get entered into a drawing to hang with The Fertile One. In fact, he'll even move in with you. No, seriously, he needs a place to stay. He says he'll go halfsies on the Doritos.

The Amazing Bob Dylan

How could I forget this one?

Did you know that Bob Dylan wrote every popular song of the past 35 years? Neither did I! But this footage proves it. (BIG props given to the clip's director who just nailed the Dylan documentary look.)

Also, this very well may be the most offensive thing I will ever post. The bar has been set very high. Consider yourself warned. The latest song and dance number from The Family Guy.

Botched dunks, Olberman, And on the 6th day...

1) I'd like to thank this Lithuanian guy for reinforcing the whole "white men can't jump" stereotype. What do you think would have happened to Gerald Green if he had gone crotch first into Nate Robinson?

2) I'm part of the generation of men who came of age listening to Keith Olberman give sports highlights while talking about biscuits in backets and shooters being "en fuego." I still am a fan now that he's willing to call out Bill O'Reilly and the chumps at Fox News. If you've never seen any of his end-of-show commentaries, you're missing out. Another great segment is his daily "Worst Person in the World" awards. Recently, it was Glen Beck's turn. Great clip. The girl he sexually harrasses on live TV can't possibly look more uncomfortable. It's like someone asked her if she likes The Who.

By the way, Glen Beck is the guy who once said: "I wonder if I'm alone in this - you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year."

3) I admit it. I enjoy wikipedia. Sometimes I'll just spend an hour looking stuff up and edumacating myself. And I know that wikis are criticized for sometimes lacking adequate sourcing. But it turns out they may be a lot more wrong than I realized.
Stephen Colbert would love conservapedia.com as it too feels that "facts" have a liberal bias.
Check out the entry on dinosaurs. Did you know that "there are a number of lines of evidence that point to dinosaurs and man coexisting" and that God created them on the 6th day?
Or that gravity is just a theory? Me neither!

Welcome to all ships at sea!

Welcome to the first day of my new blog. If you know me, you realize that I'll probably lose interest in keeping this going within a few weeks. But for now, this should be fun.

Rather than me sending out countless E-mails every day to my friends, or people I think are my friends, but probably are more like "acquaintences," of my favorite links, I'm just going to post them here. Then hopefully you'll pass it on to your friends and then they'll pass it on to their friends and then something magical will happen and I'll become stinkin' filthy rich.

The links I post will fall into two categories:
1) Things I find funny
2) Things I find mildly amusing enough to keep me entertained for five minutes.

(WARNING: This latter category may occasionally include somewhat educational material. I am a nerd at heart after all.)

I'm also going to try and keep things PG-13 so the links are safe for work. I won't vouch for what else you find on the Intranets, but you ain't gonna get no smut here. Unfortunately.

Also, some of the links will once in a while have a progressive/leftist/communistic/beatnik bend to them. To be fair, if you send me some of your right-wing hatemongering, I will try to include it also, providing it meets one of the two criteria laid out above.

Hopefully, this will become one of your regular stopping points in that period of time between doing actual work and contemplating whether you want to walk down to the vending mechines for a snack. Except, the bag of Peanut M+Ms always gets stuck, so you have to put another 70 cents in. But now you have two bags of M+Ms and you feel compelled to eat both, but not too fast so you can rationalize to yourself that you were at least keeping your blood sugar level stable. Ya, that time.