Jos A. Bank offers you a full refund on a new suit, if you buy one from them and get laid off by July 1st. The details are here.

Thanks Freakonomics.

So — I love gardening. A bug I caught years ago when my friend rented me a house he and his wife had cultivated a large vegetable garden in. I felt like I should maintain it, replant it and keep it going. It was so much fun and I was able to make such incredible meals out of the tomatoes, zucchini, corn, beans, peppers, pumpkins and melons — I actually refuse to eat some varieties of supermaket produce now (tomatoes especially; they just don’t compete.)

I now live in a place where deer are a constant challenge and planting outside our fenced in area seems like a complete waste of time. Inside the fenced in part of our property its already pretty well landscaped AND I’ve actually found tomatoes and strawberries (all I’m currently working with) to grow great in containers! Both seem like like warm roots and the containers heat up nicely.

Knowing this I went looking for something more than just a pot. I figured all these upside-down tomato growing things I see in SkyMall must have some merit — maybe that was something I should try? Thanks to the power of the internet, I found the EarthBox.

The Earthbox is a self watering, mulching container garden. You set it up, put your plants in and just fill a reservoir of water up periodically. Impossible to over water, if you have 1/2 a clue it’ll be pretty hard to underwater as well. You pre-fertilize the potting mix, so no remembering to feed it or anything — plus it comes with a bunch of Dolomite (HA! HA!) to add calcium to the soil which tomatoes just love.

So I figured I’ll try it. It arrived last week and I plan to get some potting mix and strawberries going with it. I’ve already got 4 containers of tomatoes, but I may order another and put some indeterminate tomatoes in as I made the mistake of going all determinate and heirloom with the ones I’ve already put up.

Anyone have any experience? Earthbox’s forums seem to have a lot of encouraging info.

from News Wrecker

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Cheapflights honors the great traveling beer drinkers among us with this Guide to Great Airport Beer

Gordonbiersch wouldn’t be my first choice at LAX, tho.

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Scary…

A woman who was shot in the stomach with an arrow on a New York City street is recovering at a hospital.

The 30-inch arrow struck Denise Delgado-Brown, of Yonkers, on Sunday afternoon as she was dropping off parishioners at a nursing home in the Bronx.

Fox News

Let it be known, I do not oppose Israel defending itself; Moshe Dayan, David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin are personal heroes of mine. This video just made me laugh and laughter is the best medicine.

Talk about taking something too far, Sierra Nevada’s ultimate in their product line of over-hopped, bitter beers is officially the Wet Hop Harvest Ale.

Prior Sierra reviews from me have been none too glowing; I’m not a fan of these heavily hopped American beers. I prefer my malty old German and English beers — but Sierra has a hell of a following. My friends Ryan and James both really like it. As James was over New Years Day, to let our kids bite each other and then watch some football, I thought it’d be great to share it with him and get a real Sierra drinkers take. “Too bitter” was his review, seems this one is even heavy handed for the real hops lovers. I wonder what Ryan will think…

Anyhow, its good — I will say I drank it and it actually tasted better to me than their Pale Ale or the Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale. I am a Big Foot fan, and it was similar — but without the heavy booze. The booze helps.

Anyways, if you like heavily hopped American “micro” brews — give it a try.