If you are one of the dozens of people who frequent this site and didn’t just find LWB while searching to find out if a girl you are texting with likes you, then you probably noticed I haven’t been posting much lately—and the posts I have made have, admittedly, not been up to my standards.

Well there was a good reason for that.  My wife and I recently closed on our first home.  The process was an exhausting one and the closer we got to the closing, the harder it was to focus on anything else.

We are settled in our new home now (if you count the stacks of my wife’s clothes still sitting in boxes around the house as settled) so I now I have a little more time to get back to writing.  Now that things are a little more calm, I’ve had a chance to reflect on the life-changing experience I had to endure over the past couple months.

I’m certainly glad to have my own home now but there were many stressful times along the way and many people that I wanted to punch in the face.  So with that in mind, its time for another edition of Random Guys I Want to Punch in the Face! (more…)

How would you like to combine your obsession with social networking sites with your obsession with the Star Wars saga? The new Kinect Star Wars App might be just what you’re looking for.

With this new app, which is available for iPhones, Droids (no not those droids) and Microsoft phones, you can view your Facebook and Twitter feeds in the iconic Star Wars opening title sequence. I downloaded the app myself and it definitely is pretty cool. I personally enjoyed the funny tweets from C3PO and R2D2, which are pre-loaded into the app.

And with May 4 being Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you…get it? A little cheesy, I know, but nowhere as cheesy as Jar Jar Binks, who is absent from this app, fortunately) now seems like the perfect time to check it out.

Your girlfriend will probably think you’re a total dork for using it, but who cares. She doesn’t understand why Star Wars is so awesome and she probably never will.

You might also want to the check out the Kinect Star Wars game for your Xbox 360. The Kinect is really starting to come out with some cool games and Kinect Star Wars may be the coolest game for the Kinect yet.

Check out the “trailer” below (more…)

Do I need to say anything else??

In just a short amount of time, Pintrest has become one of the most popular social networks in the world.   Earlier this year, it became the fastest site to have more than 10 million unique visitors in a month, when it eclipsed 11.7 million visitors in January 2012 (which is just slightly more than Living with Balls receives).

What makes this even more remarkable is that 83 percent of the visitors in the United States are women. It’s amazing that Pintrest is doing so well despite failing to appeal to half the world’s population.

Every woman I know is obsessed with this site.  Mrs. Sacks loves to just aimlessly scan through its iPhone app for hours at a time, completely ignoring me.  I tried using Pintrest but could not get into it. Pintrest is filled with baking recipes, cute photos of cats and lame inspirational platitudes.  There just isn’t much there for men.

But recently, a new site came out, called Punch Pin, which is the same exact concept as Pintrest, only the items posted are for men.  The look of the site is very similar. You may not even notice the difference at first, until you see the pictures of women with large breasts scattered throughout.  The site has plenty of other categories that a guy could spend hours browsing through, such as gadgets, beers, DIY projects and man caves, in addition to all the pictures of beautiful women.

It’s definitely a great time-wasting site, so be sure to check it out.

A better kind of fantasy baseball

I’ve been playing fantasy baseball for many years now. Baseball is my favorite sport and I follow it more closely than any other sport, yet I have yet to win a fantasy baseball title—EVER. It’s beyond frustrating. It seems like no matter how hard I prepare for a draft, or how closely I monitor free agents during the season, something always goes wrong. This season is already shaping up to be another shitty one.  When it comes to fantasy baseball, I subscribe to Murphy’s Law—the belief that anything that can go wrong, WILL go wrong.

Here is my “Fantasy Baseball Murphy’s Law” list

The perennial all-star you draft in the first round will have the worst year of his career the year you draft him

The following year, when you pass him over, he will dominate the league

The ace pitcher you draft will announce he is having Tommy John surgery two days after your draft ended

Your best closer will lose the job one month into the season

The guy in your league with five closers will pick up his replacement minutes before you do (more…)

I was browsing through the online catalog for Hammacher Schlemmer the other day— or as I like to call it, the catalog for people who have more money than they know what to do with—and I was blown away by some of the crazy items they have for sale there.

A while back, I wrote a post about some of the crazy stuff that can be found on Hammacher Schlemmer, but with my recent visit to their site I’ve learned that they have managed to top themselves.

Let’s take a look at some of the most recent outlandish items for sale at Hammacher Schlemmer.

The Killer Whale Submarine

A quick glance at the picture above appears to show a killer whale leaping out of the water.  But it is actually a two-person submarine.   Just take a look at this description…

This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the Orcinus orca after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2″-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale’s pectoral fins for rolls and stealthy dives. With a finger on the right lever’s throttle trigger, steering is provided by dual foot pedals that control the vectored thrust of the craft’s 255-hp supercharged Rotax axial flow engine, enabling realistic behaviors such as porpoising or skyhopping. It can hydroplane up to 50 mph over the water’s surface and it can cruise up to 25 mph while submerged; its dorsal fin’s integrated snorkel ensures air supply to the engine up to a depth of 5′. The cockpit’s dashboard includes a speedometer, tachometer, engine and air pressure gauges, and an LCD that displays live video from the dorsal fin’s built-in camera. Vinyl seats with closed-cell foam upholstery and four-point racing harnesses ensure pilot and passenger safety. (more…)

I love my iPhone.  In fact, I’m probably obsessed with it.  The iPhone is one of the greatest inventions of our time. It has changed the way we interact with the world and it has changed the way we get work done.  The features are almost limitless.

But the biggest downside to the phone is the constant distraction it creates.  A phone that was created to make life more efficient is, ironically, having the opposite effect.  Let me take you through a typical workday to show you just how the iPhone is negatively affecting my productivity.

8:27 a.m: Wake up late. I had set my alarm on my phone the night before but forgot to charge it, so the phone died and I am now late for work.  I charge my iPhone in the car, while I speed to work.  I almost crash my car when I glance down at my phone following a notification that someone replied to my last tweet.

9:23: Almost a half-hour late for work.  I turn my computer on to start my day but not before I make my move in Words with Friends.  I spend 15 minutes trying to make a word with seven consonants.  I get pissed off and close the app.  (more…)

A new study by the University of California-San Francisco is suggesting that males who have trouble getting laid will be more likely to drink alcohol than their male counterparts who are fortunate enough to engage in frequent sexual activity.

Researchers found that male fruit flies who had recently mated were less likely to choose food laced with alcohol than those who failed to get their dick wet. The rejected male fruit flies drank from the spiked mixture about 70 percent of the time, compared to about 50 percent of the time for the lucky flies who got their nut off. Apparently the researchers believe that the flies were using the alcohol as a way to compensate for their sexual frustration. (more…)