Category Archives: Austin
Man spends $21K for Taylor Swift tickets for daughter.
A man in Massachusetts just dropped $21,000 on tickets to a Taylor Swift concert. Around here, that's a nice used car, 10 percent of a mortgage on a decent house, or 6,000 gallons of gas. I don't unde...
May 22, 2023 David Shankbone
New machine lets you customize sauces and dips! This deliciously changes EVERYTHING!!!! Buh bye catsup packets. (Pic of ketchup package is copyright free. It's a long story, but certain lawyers will get it.))
This is a flavor game changer for restaurants! It's called the Heinz Remix. Think of the Coke machines that let you choose which flavors you want to mix and match, only now it's sauces. My mouth is wa...
May 22, 2023 Justin Taylor / CC
Woman marries herself in retirement community.
77 Year old Dorothy Fideli recently got married at the retirement community she lives in......... to herself. As weird as it sounds, she was surrounded by friends and family as she wore a white weddin...
May 19, 2023 Wedding Dress Factory Outlet / CC
Disney closing Star Wars hotel after just year and a half. Austin is disappointed.
Disney's Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel is closing already. It's been open less than two years, but I saw this coming. Just a couple months ago I talked about how they were cutting back on the n...
May 19, 2023 Jonathan Cooper / Unsplash
Netflix no more, the DVDs that is.
DVDs are officially dead. Netflix is shutting down their DVD delivery service. It's what they started with, but now streaming has killed the DVD star. I remember being excited when I'd see that red en...
May 18, 2023 Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar / CC
Wienermobile has changed it's name.
First, did you know the Oscar Myer Wienermobile has been around for nearly a century? Second, they're changing the name to the Frankmobile. The people driving it around will now be known as Frankmobil...
May 18, 2023 Jeremy Noble / CC
Private space station up in 2 years. See promo video in blog.
A commercial space station that people can buy a seat on is coming sooner than you think. Space X is saying that they'll be launching one in 2025. And that's just the beginning. The plan is to connect...
May 17, 2023 Chirag Malik / Unsplash
People are taking street drugs that literally make their flesh fall off.
How bad does a drug have to be for everyone to just say no to it? Teeth falling out, scabs on the skin, and even death haven't worked. How about if it literally makes your flesh dies and fall off afte...
May 16, 2023 ZaldyImg / CC
"Cheers" bar is for sale to anyone. Info and link to auction site in blog.
The actual bar from TV's "Cheers" is up for auction. So, if you want the most talked about coolest man cave in the world, where everyone knows your name, then pull out the credit cards. It's being sol...
May 16, 2023 Paul Johnson / CC
Piranha attack at resort sends 8 tourists to the hospital.
When I was a kid, the movie "Piranha" fascinated and scared me. They got into American lakes and used their razor teeth to quickly eat swimmers and leave nothing but a skeleton within seconds. They we...
May 15, 2023 Erik Cleves Kristensen / CC