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One half of STN drinks more often than the other half.

One half of STN brews his own beer.

These are not the same people.  Weird huh?

Well not quite as weird as these freakin Coors Light commercials advertising a new can which will let you know when your beer is cold.  WTF?  Despite our different relationships with beer we at STN rely on an age old technology to tell when our beer, homebrewed or storebought, is cold.  That’s right, we just touch the bottle.  We use our skin to tell us if something is cold.  Revolutionary, I know.

(Of course, we’re totally fine with our computer keyboards turning red whenever we write a new post cause we’re on fire, baby!)

It’s back!

I was just about to purchase a version of one of these belts about 7 or 8 years ago.  Just before I called the 800 number, the product was pulled.  Why?  Because that product was designed to shock the user.  I guess too many people had problems with the intensity of those electrocusions small shocks.

Today, I came across this, and now I’m seriously having flashbacks and wondering what if…or how long?

When Will This Robot Get His Due?

We here at STN have met the “retro” 80s comeback with mixed enthusiasm.  While one half of STN would be glad to be done with it altogether, the other half insists on perpetuating this legacy of questionable fashion by sporting ridiculous white sunglasses that were stolen out of Kanye West’s car.  Regardless, neither one of us can figure out why this dude hasn’t gotten more attention, especially with the internets making such things so easy:

The Cheers Postulate

The Cheers postulate reads thusly: Location based sitcoms (e.g., Scrubs, The Office, Wings-yeah, that’s right, I just went old school on your ass) suffer dramatically when they leave their location. Ever watch an old episode of Cheers where Sam and gang go to Fenway or have dinner at Carla’s house, or Sam and Diane go to a ski lodge? How did those episodes compare to the ones where they stayed in the bar? That’s right, they sucked.

Same thing goes for other location based sitcoms. The Office isn’t nearly as funny when the show leaves the office, Scrubs is at its best in the hospital, and Wings needed the self-containment of the airport. Go down the list you’ll see that the Cheers postulate is nearly universal: Night Court, Newsradio, WKRP in Cincinnati, Spin City, etc.