I’m heading out to New Jersey today to interview Richie Kohler for a piece about deep sea diving, so I’ll probably be gone for most of the day. Suck it up.
But I leave you with this topic of discussion, should you choose to accept it: Someone I know recently commented that he’d been thinking about [...]

Cool business cards are highly advised, but many of the examples shown in this survey are of such odd shape that I can’t imagine anyone being able to carry around more than a few—nor anyone receiving one to do anything but pitch them in the trash. If it can’t fit into my wallet, I don’t [...]

Apparently this sort of slide is called a “helter skelter,” and this one is installed at a office building museum in what must be Europe, because no workplace in the U.S. is legally allowed to be awesome. In case it’s not obvious from the picture, that big metal snakey thing is the slide that you [...]

In which we discuss the Discovery series about Alaskan King Crab fisherman, “Deadliest Catch.”
Last night’s episode couldn’t hold up to last week’s, as evidenced by the fact they recapped the rescue from last week for the first ten minutes of the show. But that’s okay—seeing that man they plucked out of the waters lose it [...]

Have you ever wondered if you’d happier doing a different job? “Vocation Vacations,” offers one- to three-day “immersion experiences” with a person in your prospective career of choice, the better to let you have some hands-on time with an expert before you decide to trade in your lucrative programming gig for a career as a [...]

I just put down Timothy Ferriss’ book, “The 4-Hour Workweek,” to find myself indolent between self-loathing, ideas, and hope. The books is a challenge to reanalyze my life to achieve the goals I have immediately—or at least before a far-away retirement. While I want to disparage it to give myself an excuse to ignore it, [...]

Josh Bernstein, TV anthropologist and handsome devil, might not be a twat. The Times has profiled the ridiculously good-looking star of History Channel (and soon Discovery) show “Digging for the Truth,” and while he might not be the sort of guy you want to go drinking with (if only because no women would ever notice [...]

What should be the first results we see from your work at Four Points?
The first thing I hope to do is start writing my blog, which will be posted at www.fourpoints.com/cbo. I am also looking forward to traveling to Four Points to host happy hours where I can continue getting people excited about great beer [...]

So it’s become clear from last night’s episode: Blake is a real asshole. First he heads out on his own boat without any plans of where to place his pots, then when he finally turns in decent numbers he won’t take the risk and put down a string somewhere another captain hasn’t already scouted. Then [...]