Give Sambazon acai a try

I visited some family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil last spring, and my cousin introduced me to a fruit I had never heard of before- acai (ah-sah-ee). He was surprised I had never heard of the acai berry, and he took me to a small smoothie shop to try it out. It’s great, and I suggest you give it a try. Acai juice has a chocolate-blueberry flavor, and it’s full of nutrients and antioxidants.

The tiny acai berry is native to the Amazon rainforest, and apparently natives have been eating it forever. The berry is praised for having more healthy properties than pomegranate, blueberries, etc. Within the past five years or so, some manufacturers have caught on and started selling acai in various forms. You can get it in its classic liquid form, smoothie, powder, frozen, etc. The best manufacturer, I think, is www.sambazon.com. Much has been made about the destruction of the world’s rainforests, but Sambazon’s efforts actually help save the Brazilian rainforest. The company has a working arrangement with acai suppliers in Brazil. It turns out that there is more money to be made in harvesting the fruit as opposed to cutting down the trees for wood/farmland. The success of this young company has also increased demand for more jobs in the areas where the fruit is harvested.

While the popularity of acai has caused more and more companies to start manufacturing acai products, only Sambazon makes it a point to use acai from these suppliers that are doing it the right way.

Sambazon’s drinks are sold at Whole Foods, Safeway, Super Fresh, etc. You can also order direct from their website (my preferred method). We’ve affiliated ourselves with Sambazon- tell them thefedonline.com told you about it! 

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Ghost Rider (don’t try this at home….)

This guy is one ballsy, idiotic Swede. The first link is him toying with the cops, and the last two are him completing a 43 mile trek in Stockholm in….FIFTEEN MINUTES. The dude averaged over 170 mph! To compare, D.C. to Baltimore is 40 miles- imagine that only taking 15 minutes.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R0flRAlwrlc&feature=related

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2 girls 1 cup

I’ve seen plenty of nasty/funny/shocking stuff on the internet, but this tops ‘em ALL. There are even a bunch of funny reactions to the video on youtube. You’ve been warned…freakin’ GROSS!!!

The video:

http://www.flurl.com/item/2girls1cup_Official_Video_u_279710

Hilarious reactions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7aABa0N0Qc

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Babat’s Jimmy Buffet Experience

So I attended my second Jimmy Buffett concert last week. You gotta do it right; I took off work the day of the concert and also the day after. Wow, I must be a big Buffett fan, huh? Negative. A few friends are huge fans and initially had to talk me into it, but now I can say that everyone has to go at least once.

It’s not the music- I only know about 3 songs. It’s the ridiculous tailgating. We got there at about 2pm (the concert started at 8…I think). Now, if you’ve never been to a Buffett concert, you don’t know how freaking serious these people take it. I’m talking tents with sand, blow up palm trees, “margaritaville” and “parrothead” drawn all over car windows, huge Winnebago’s with Buffett flags sticking out the windows, etc. One guy in our group had even rented a porta-potti for $100. The problem was the venue didn’t allow trailors, so he’d have to lay it down in the back of his truck. Yeah, right. It was a great idea, though. I haven’t been so disappointed since I found out that those hover boards in “Back to the Future 2″ weren’t actually coming to a Toys R Us near me. The lying bastards.

Has anyone ever heard of Cornhole? No, not that. Someone in the group from Ohio (I mention this because I presume where they were from had something to do with it) brings 8 bean bags and these 2 pieces of wood with a hole in each piece. The object of the game is for you and your teammate to shoot as many bean bags into the hole, about 25 feet away. I’ve never heard of this game before in my entire life. And what do I see when I look to the group of people tailgating next to us? They’re playing Cornhole too! More Cornhole! Everywhere I look, Cornhole! What the heck are the odds of that? It’s sweeping the nation, people. Cornhole. It must have something to do with Ohio…

Naturally, as the concert was about to start, my buddy Rick and I decided to “finish up” his homemade jungle juice. Bad idea. This was after numerous games of flip cup and jello shots. We take a ton of shots each, and then it starts raining…no, make that POURING. Next thing I know, one of the people in our group was too wasted to get in, and I offered to go find her. An hour and a half later, I realize I’ve been walking in the rain around the venue by myself. No problem, I’m making random friends in the crowd. But as the concert is nearing a close, I realize that I didn’t drive, no one is picking up their cell phone, and I have no idea where the hotel is (heck, I don’t even know the name of it). Somehow I end up finding someone from our group, and it turns out that practically all of us got split up. This is proven when, after we were back at the hotel for about an hour and a half, we get a call from one of the people in our group that was attending Buffet for the first time. Her and two others were still at the venue…they had apparently left their car keys in one of the cars we used to leave in. Heh, heh…oops. That’s called “yo’ fault”.

Anyway, next time Buffet comes around, go. But go with people that have gone before. And drink a lot of water.

Oh, and the girl that was too drunk to get into the concert? She roamed around the parking lot for 2 hours and never got in. Now there’s $60 well spent!

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The Tree Saga

So a few mornings ago I’m lazily micturating before leaving for work, and I happen to glance out my window. Expecting to see the usual bushes, neighbor’s house, and perhaps a tweeting bird, what do I see? A SIXTY FOOT OAK TREE LYING DOWN IN MY BACKYARD. Apparently, as there was a storm during the night, my neighbor’s gargantuan tree crashed through their fence, and now 98% of it is in my backyard.  

Thinking that his insurance would cover it, I didn’t worry too much about it. Turns out, it’s a “natural occurrence”, and unless I can prove that it was diseased and he was negligent, his insurance won’t cover the cost to remove the tree. So then I call my own insurance, and they said since there wasn’t any damage to my house, they won’t cover anything, either.  
So now I’ve got this huge tree, that isn’t even mine, just CHILLIN in my backyard. Considering how small my backyard is, it’s literally a miracle it didn’t hit our house or shed (or worse…my Ducati…that’s right, that’d be worse than my house ;)).

We go over to talk to the neighbor about it, as they hadn’t even had the courtesy to call us or come over to talk about it, and they basically said what the insurance companies said- it’s OUR problem, deal with it. I mean, hey, maybe they’d want to split the cost of the tree removal guy. Nope.

The moral of this story (other than let me know if you need firewood)? See below: 

 Even when you are having a really bad day,

 

someone will still screw you. 

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