efoxley.com | dope

I oversee twelve stores. Tonight I got a call from one of my managers:

“My store is on fire.”

Didn’t think it would affect me … but hours later, it has.

No one was hurt, but as I sit here and type … the smell on my clothes is really beginning to bother me. I can’t get the taste out of my mouth, either. I walked the store with the fire chief, and I can’t seem to get the images out of my mind.

Buy your Jesus Toaster here.

Did you? I bet not.

Check this out.

Wow.

Just goes to show you the world may not be as twisted as we always believe.

I remember the morning. We all do. It was a very sad day across America.

This is a very raw video … worth a watch.

I read this in the LA Times, and thought: Are you kidding me? Control your country, Man!

Read the last line of the clip, then read the full article here.

“Are you going to post about this?” Tina said tonight, as I ran out to the patio to snap the above pic.

“Yes, Dammit.” I said. “I must warn others.” I continued to eat ice. I was on my 5th or 6th mouth-full.

Earlier, Tina kicked off the harvest season (Labor Day is today … the last day of Summer) by snipping off a few of the orange peppers from our plant. Curiously, I agreed to cut one open and have a taste. I sliced off the stem and simply put the tip of my tongue on the pepper’s flesh.

What started as a slight sting slowly grew into agony.

Habanero chili peppers are rated 100,000–350,000 on the Scoville scale. Conservatively, that’s about 40 times hotter than a Jalapeño. I didn’t know that when I bought a baby plant at a local nursery this past spring.

An hour later … Awesome! It’s really neat to have a plant growing on our patio with such amazing power. I look forward to finding some applications for this powerful pepper …

But, you’ve been warned.

(He’s a guitarist for some old 60’s band.)

A home-built $17,790 computer with an Electrical Bill of $237/month to calculate Pi to Five Trillion digits, and to suffer in the process by his daughter’s tripping of a circuit breaker when she turned a hair dryer on …

Shigeru Kondo … you rock, sir.

Gavin has been in kindergarten for 2 weeks now, and I’ve noticed him spitting – a new habit I’m sure he acquired from some punk at school.

This morning he spat in our foyer.

I grabbed him and put his face in it. Sorry – but kid’s got to learn. As he cried with the evidence dripping down his face, I demanded he clean it up off of the tile.

He won’t be spitting again.

Pretty Genius ad …

Apple TV was re-announced today under the typical Apple Fanfare. But elsewhere, Sony and Amazon are teaming up, and Google will be at the party, too.

Frankly, I don’t care about any of them. I’m already there – not that hard, really. You just need a streaming device and the proper technology.

But it will be fun to watch this …