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by | April 30, 2010 · 11:29 am

Sail Away, Sail Away

Photo courtesy of Boston.com

Someone in Boston really wants me to go sailing this weekend. I opened up my inbox this morning to find not one, but TWO e-mails telling me that sailing in the Harbor is the new thing to do, and I can get it at a discount!

First off, the Boston Sailing Center will be hosting an Open House Saturday, May 1 and Sunday, May 2 at it’s Lewis Wharf location. Free sailboat rides will be offered, as well as discounted memberships and lessons.

In addition, today’s Boston Groupon is a 50 percent discount on either sailing lessons or a leisure cruise with Courageous Sailing of Charlestown. For $95, you and two friends can either learn to sail or take a calm two-hour coast in the Boston Harbor. While this sounds really lovely, I wonder why three people would want to take what seems to me like a romantic cruise on a sailboat…I mean, I can think of some reasons, but it’s not anything I would want to participate in.

Anyway, take advantage of the beautiful weekend (and hopefully future beautiful weather ahead of us). Bon Voyage!

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by | April 28, 2010 · 8:56 pm

The Top 5 Contributions The Hills has Made to Society

As we began the final season of The Hills Tuesday night, I couldn’t help but let my mind wander back to the days at 41 Orkney Road watching the first season of Laguna Beach. A lot has happened in those six short years: I am actually considered an adult now, the economy went from great to bad, Michael Phelps has won countless gold medals, the country elected its first black president, and Lindsay Lohan has been to rehab a total of 77 times.

With all this change, I can’t help but wonder what this brand of reality television has taught us. Let the countdown begin:

1.True friends (or frenemies, or acquaintances lumped together for the sole purpose of the show) know what you’re thinking. All those silences between Audrina and Lauren (and Audrina and Lo, and Audrina and Justin Bobby) are really just signs that these people are so close, they don’t need words. Their bonds are so strong, that sentences don’t need to be finished. So deep.
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by | April 28, 2010 · 11:22 am

The Most Awesome Thing Ever?

So the boys over at Big Spaceship have taken it upon themselves to find the Most Awesomest Thing Ever.

Quite a quest, but it seems they’ve actually put the power in YOUR hands by letting users of their new site (www.mostawesomestthingever.com – how was this domain name not already taken?) choose the more awesome thing between two randomly selected…well, things.

So far, I’ve been able to choose Microsoft over muscle contraction and the Blacked-Eyed Peas over jalapenos. A thing receives a higher rank every time it’s chosen. The site looks a little bit like a scene from The Neverending Story and there’s really not much else to it other than clicking on a thing, but it’s nonsensical and I love it.

I would also like it noted in the above picture that the Internet is today’s Most Awesomest Thing. Over Life.

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