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November 30, 2009

Metal Mustaches Movember Party - This Friday in Denver

We are raising money for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and The Lance Armstrong Foundation through The Metal Mustaches Movember.com team.

The Metal Mustaches are a group of guys and women who have banded together to grow and support the growth of beards and awesome metal mustaches in the name of raising money to fight Men's Cancers.

The Rackhouse Pub

Dec 4th, 2009

7:00 - 9:00pm

200 S. Kalamath Street

$10 donation at the door

Gets you 2 raffle tickets. (Maybe more if we can swing it)

$50 at the door

Gets you 15 raffle tickets and a Movie Poster

We have an awesome sponsor!

They will be donating $5 for every person who walks in the door for the event

AND

They will be bringing samples of their new Spiced Apple seasonal drink.

Raffle Prizes/Give-Aways:

Large Men's Colorado Rockies Jacket ($120 value) (picture here)

$50 Gift Certificate to the LoHi SteakBar

$78 value First Class Gift Certificate to SkyVenture Indoor Skydiving

A gift box of Gourmet Spices Savory Spice Shop

Gourmet (and super fancy!) Chocolates donated by Wen Chocolates

In order to keep them fresh for Dec 4th, they will be donated the week before

Joe Sakic signed NORDICS Jersey (pictures here)

John Elway signed mini helmet (pictures here)

Bass Ale Mega Cooler (pictures here)

Thriftonista: $100 worth of personal styling and vintage clothing from Thriftonista. This will include a 1 hour personal style consultation (worth $50) and $50 in expertly sourced vintage clothing. This prize IS transferable so that the winner can give it as a gift to any friend of family member

PlumSage Flowers: $75 Gift Certificate

LaXWorld Colorado: One new Lacrosse Stick, Ball and a Shirt

Laser Hair Company: 1 gift Certificate for $250.00 and 1 for ½ of 1 Package Deal.

$25 gift card to Indulge Wine Bar

Movie Posters provided by AMC Theaters

Pirate Radio

Men Who Stare at Goats

The Box

Xmas Carol

Surrogates

Astro Boy

Where the Wild Things Are

Law Abiding Citizen

Final Destination

Fourth Kind

Aliens In The Attic

The Goods

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Got a Beard?

We will have barbers on site to give you an awesome Metal Mustache

via metalmustache.eventbrite.com

Full disclosure: I work for Mike's Hard Lemonade and we are a sponsor of the event. We'll be sampling our new mike's hard spiced apple - both hot and cold!

It should be a good time. Contact me on Twitter (@nealstewart) if you have any questions.

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November 29, 2009

Charlie Weis should get another year to coach the Irish

All of this stuff about firing college head football coaches is a little out of hand. The University of Colorado made the right decision when they kept Dan Hawkins. Yes, Hawkins has sucked, but it was the right decision financially.

Notre Dame is a completely different school and program, but they should give Charlie Weis another year for a few reasons:

It would be irresponsible to fire him, considering it would cost about $40 million to pay him out and hire a new staff. To drop that kind of money on a coach is a complete slap in the face to the economy. You could call this a college football bailout.
If you're on the board of directors of a company, would you fire your CEO when it is obvious that one department needs to be fixed? No, you go fix that department - and for ND that's the defense. Charlie is accountable for all departments, but he should get the mandate to fix that department next year or be held accountable.
There is a possibility of a strong nucleus coming back next year. Yea, people said that coming into this year, but the weakness is even more glaring.

All of this is probably moot as Charlie will probably be fired tomorrow, but I think dropping that kind of money on getting rid (not hiring) football coach is ridiculous.

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November 28, 2009

Homeless or Hipster - you make the call

via hipsteristhenewhomeless.com

check out http://hipsteristhenewhomeless.com ... although i think it should have been homeless is the new hipster.com

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November 28, 2009

ARS is a bunch of con-artists

Last week my wife was at Home Depot and there was someone there from offering furnace tune-ups. This is our second winter in this house, so she decided to drop the $75 and have them come over and check it out.

The "repairman" comes over last week and takes a look at the furnace, comes up from the crawlspace and says "I need to talk to you about your furnace." That's never something you want to hear. He goes on to give me the news that there are a few things wrong with it including the inducer motor over-amping and spitting out too much CO2. He said that it wouldn't be worth fixing it and that we should strongly consider getting a new one.

For the next 24 hours we considered our options on how we would pay for a new $3600 furnace. Not an easy task when we just forked out $3500 on a new hot water heater.

We finally decided it would be best to get a second opinion. Good thing we did. The next guy came over and told us there was absolutely nothing wrong with it and that it wasn't even spitting out any CO2. He told us that ARS try to rip people off all the time and even go so far as to show people video of faulty equipment from other people's homes.

In case you're wondering, we did look up ARS' ratings and reviews with the Better Business Bureau and they have solid grades, but those are easy to manipulate. If you have to deal with these clowns, be careful.

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November 12, 2009

Walk at 90 Degree Angle Day

I am officially declaring that next Friday, November 20 is "Walk at 90 Degree Angle Day." All day you have to walk at right angles.

For those of you that don't know how to do this, here' how it works:

Whenever you are walking and you want to turn, you can only turn left or right at a 90 degree angle, No 45 degree angles, no 13 degree angles. Everything must be 90 degrees. All day.

If you want to tweet how you're Walk at 90 Degree Angle Day is going, you can use the hashtag: #walk90

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November 6, 2009

Check out this awesome weather forecast

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October 31, 2009

At the NEW Rackhouse Pub

I will be having a "Stewart's Turkey" momentarily.

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October 30, 2009

Here are my college football picks for this halloween weekend.

via xtranormal.com

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October 28, 2009

Props to Noodles for fast marketing

via content.screencast.com

I'm a big fan of how Noodles & Company markets. It's dumping snow here in Denver today and they sent out this email to stir up some business. It's super timely and will surely drive some traffic.

But it seems like it's time to stop requiring people to print out coupons. What if I showed this on my iPhone? Would they take it? I doubt because they couldn't track it. Someone needs to find a way to do that.

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October 27, 2009