Top Five Destinations of Casper, WY
Sometimes I need a break. On a road trip that can mean plenty of things. Sometimes, I stop by a roadside plaque and find out something about the history of the land. Sometimes I pop out and take a hike to move and stretch my legs. Sometimes I find a nice...
Self Made Man: Richard Garfield
I don’t know how many of you are analog (as in non-video) game designers, but man, that is not an easy industry to work in. The market is over-saturated with games, and many of their core fanbases are full of aging, reactionary nerds who hate unfamiliar...
Top Five Destinations of Pocatello, ID
Sometimes I pick a city out of a virtual hat and try to see if I can find five things to do there. Sometimes, I struggle and wonder why I gave myself such a challenge. (The answer is simple, so that I’m always ready for the next road trip wherever it...
The Self-Made Man: Chad Hurley
One mark of a Self Made Man is that they never stop working. Even if it doesn’t work out, or if it’s just for fun and not explicitly a for-profit thing, the entrepreneurs who make the biggest impact on us at TSB always have a project or two...
What Supplements Should I Be Taking?
If you’re a workout junkie like myself, you’re likely taking some kind of supplement or at least you’re thinking about it. There’s a whole galaxy of supplements out there with a wide variation in quality and pricing. Some of it works great and...
Top Five Movies of Tina Fey
This may be a cliché, but when I think of Tina Fey, I think of the smart girl that’s portrayed in teen movies as the ugly girl because she wears glasses. I think Tina has cultivated that image in “30 Rock” through her character Liz Lemon and her...
Awesome Men Throughout History: Winston Smith
Most of what we know about the art of collage comes from what we did in elementary school, or what we see in college girls’ dorm rooms. Collages do get more sophisticated than that, though; surrealists were making them back in the 1920s, and guys...
Top Five Destinations of Billings
How many events do you know that you know the name, but don’t know anything else about it? If I start broad with something like The Civil War or World War II, I’m sure you and I can both point to Gettysburg, Antietam, Sherman’s March to Atlanta...
The Self-Made Man: Asa Candler
I’ve been drinking Coke (and more recently, Coke Zero) for years now, but I never knew who invented it or how it became the global phenomenon (minus Cuba and North Korea) it is today. Luckily, this Self Made Man column justifies my curiosity about...
Awesome Men Throughout History: Blaster Al Ackerman
I was going to wait a little while longer before featuring another Baltimore artist as an Awesome Man Throughout History, but time has forced my hand a bit. Blaster Al Ackerman, an artist, writer, and pillar of the Baltimore weirdo community, passed away...
