I remember breaking my ankle… actually my friend broke it for me… but I digress, anyways I broke it in like 4 spots, it was just nasty.   I had to have surgery and get 4 screws put into it.  Needless to say the X-Ray looked totally bad-ass.  The cast however was pretty lame.  So my other friend designed a hockey skate drawing on the cast to make it look like I was wearing a Nike hockey skate… we thought it was cool but the chicks didn’t really dig it.  That’s why when I saw this I had to write about it.

Now you can make your cast look totally pro with Casttoo.  They design tattoos that can be applied to any type of cast.  My absolute favourite is the cast that is an image of your actual X-Ray!  Just send them a digital file of the X-Ray and they send you back the tattoo ready to be applied.  Now that is creative.

There are hundreds of others too choose from, such as this totally awesome Dinosaur cast… or if you broke your wrist in an Ed Hardy douchebag fight you could get a Tribal tattoo version too.

Cheers,

jordenf

Okay so something that I can’t believe I missed has come to my attention just now.  So you know those lame Snuggie things that have taken off?… I don’t know why but apparently either there are a lot of gag gifts going around these days or a lot more idiots.  Well the recent Snuggie sales has created a sudden surge in “Snuggie related ideas”… such as the Twosome Snuggie I wrote about last year.  Well resident bad-ass Lex Friedman jumped on the band wagon and created a website called The Snuggie Sutra… yeah, it’s exactly what you think it is…

The tag line of the Snuggie Sutra website is: “You have a Snuggie, you have sex, this was inevitable.”  I’m just taking a stab in the dark here but I don’t think a lot of people who own Snuggies are having a lot of sex… but either way it’s pretty hilarious and a pretty sweet idea.  This is how Lex describes how The Snuggie Sutra guide was born:

Sex is fun.  Blankets are a pain in the ass.  You know how it is.  You and your lover are in bed, eager to engage in coitus, orgasmic ecstasy easily within reach.  But the blankets get tangled.  Or tossed aside.  She gets cold.  He gets shrinkage.  There’s never been a solution to having sex while avoiding a chill.  Until the Snuggie.  The Snuggie Sutra is like the Kama Sutra, only with Snuggies.  It’s an illustrated guide to sexual positions that are both erotic and warm.

Awesome!  I would trade in a couple of my friends to bring this guy into my inner circle… not because of his Snuggie Sutra knowledge or anything, but because he seems a lot funnier than most of the people I hang out with.

Not only are the illustrations easy to understand but the explanations are even better!  For instance to do The Tablecloth (at the top of this page): She lies on the table.  He wears the Snuggie on his front while the bottom end covers her.  It’s just not a holiday without stuffing. Now that is brilliant!

So if you own a Snuggie (but I pray you don’t) and you have a partner (which you probably won’t)… but in case you do… I recommend you go to the Snuggie Sutra website and check out some of their moves… or add your own!

Cheers!

jordenf

His first card, the Cardapult, is a business card that transforms into a catapult so you can nail Nancy (and not in the good way) who is always bragging about the Johnson Account by the water cooler.

Bell’s new prototype is the not as creatively named Penny Shooter, which could definitely take out a rodent on the loose in the warehouse or probably a small toddler that your secretary thought would be okay to bring in with her because she is only working a quick afternoon shift.  Put THAT on your extended employee health benefits plan!

You can get the cards printed with your business name, email, phone number and all that jazz but I think they are probably more designed as a promotional item giveaway and not a card you would hand over to the CEO of a multimillion dollar company that you are bidding on a contract for.  Still pretty cool though!

Cheers,

jordenf

You can check out both the Cardapult and Penny Shooter on my Flickr Feed.

Duck Hunter Extreme is a real life (well as close as you can get to real without killing an actual animal) duck hunting game where one person flies the duck via remote control and the other person tries to shoot it down.

It does lose a little something without the blood-hound running into the grass to pick up your collection of ducks… I also wonder how long the remote ducks will last after getting capped and crashing a bunch of times.  Still looks sweet though.  You can only get the game through a 3rd party like Amazon.com who have it for $55US if you are looking for a post-Christmas present for yourself.

Cheers!

jordenf

The Times NB 580 comes in black or white and look like they couldn’t get more comfortable unless they were lined with baby seal pelts.  Here are some specs on the boots from New Balance’s 686 website:

Based upon the original MT580 sneaker, the 686 design team recreated a fully functional, technically advanced snowboard boot with a sneaker-like fit. The intense process utilized New Balance’s proprietary features like Rollbar and Abzorb, as well as combining BOA’s proven Focus lacing system. The end result is a true masterpiece of New Balance’s quality footwear heritage and 686’s technical snowboarding history.

Basically that’s a lot of fancy language for “they feel awesome and have a lot of cool stuff inside them”.  I also noticed that they have these neat dials on the tongue and on the side of the boot… maybe they are volume knobs to turn up the good and turn down the suck?  I think it might have something to do with the BOA Focus lacing system where you don’t actually lace up anything but rather tighten by twisting the dials… so even an idiot or someone with only one hand can tie them up tightly now!

Snowboard season is already underway so I probably wont try to pick these up until it winds down in April as the $300US price tag is a little high for me.   I’m hoping it will drop a bit after the initial launch.  Looks like another season of wearing my Burton Godzilla/Mothra hybrid boots for now.

Cheers!

jordenf

I’m pretty sure these are meant for kids and you might look like a bit of a tool by using chopsticks that are glued together at the top, but at least all the boys between the ages of 4-11 will think your cool.  They come in all different kinds including T-Rex, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor, and my personal favourite the Brontosaurus ( I guess the folks at Dino Sticks don’t read my blog so they don’t realize that the Brontosaurus isn’t really a dinosaur).

I do like that the packaging states it “makes finger food more tasty”.  Yes cause nothing makes finger food more tasty than a little Bisphenol A leaching into your fish sticks from your plastic dinosaur shaped chopsticks.

I’m not going to lie these things are pretty bad-ass and as a lover of dinosaurs for only $2 I might be tempted to buy a set.

Cheers!

jordenf

The second thing I wanted to mention is my “Geeky Blog Christmas Present” to myself is a QR Barcode on the top right hand side of my page.  I have also added one to my Twitter page.  If you have a BlackBerry or an iPhone you can use it to scan the above barcode and will instantly be taken to jordenf.com on your mobile phone, making it way easier than typing all those annoying letters with your thumbs… who want’s to do all that work right!?  Give it a try, it’s a pretty cool piece of technology that I’m sure we will see more and more of in the future.

Thanks again for continuing to swing by and Merry Christmas!

jordenf

There have been a lot of hoodies coming out lately modeled after popular movies (like the Star Wars hoodies by Ekco) but this is the only one I’ve seen that can defend against that whiny little baby Leonardo.  Now I don’t remember Shredder (or any of the Foot Clan) picking up a lot of chicks so you may want to check yourself before you head out clubbing with friends.

So if you or a friend want to hang out with the Bebop and Rocksteady, get your Shredder costume at 80′s Tees for $60US.

Cheers!

jordenf

Sparkle Labs have come up with an idiot-proof craft project for Christmas that even I could probably handle… but I wouldn’t cause I’m super manly and doing crafts or anything that involves construction paper is lame.  But if you do decided to try it, when it’s completed it will make you look like a total Martha Stewart bad-ass!

You just download the PDF and print it onto construction paper or on regular white paper.  Then take out your scissors and cut along the solid lines… you might need one of those fancy craft knives for the tree’s inner skeleton as it get’s a little intricate.  After your tree has been cut out just fold on the dotted lines, tape it together, put some LED lights underneath it, and you’ve got yourself a desktop Christmas tree!  Once lit the tree projects against the wall in a neat way, so if you like shiny things and are easily amused by light patterns… this is probably going to be for you!  Rock n’ Roll!

I’m not going to lie… it looks pretty sweet and I’m going to make one as soon as I finish mowing the lawn, fixing my Harley, lifting weights, and getting a barbed-wire tattoo around my bicep.

Cheers!

jordenf

But even my crappy Brontosaurus would look awesome when made into a customized stuffed animal, which is exactly what the company Shidonni does!

The concept is simple but a very innovative way to turn your kid’s (or your own) creativity into something tangible.  Basically you go to Shidonni’s website where your son or daughter (or yourself) scribbles down their laughable creation. You throw down your Visa, click submit, and then children in the sweatshop at Shidonni sew together an exact replica of your drawing but stuffed animal size. All for $85US.

This is a pretty sweet idea and I might even give it a try with my patented Brontosaurus drawing.

Cheers!

jordenf