Category: 10 Things

10 Things You Don’t Know About… Finding the Best Inexpensive Wine at a Restaurant

Post author By web gangsta
Post date April 17, 2009

So you’re sitting at the fancy restaurant, and the waiter hands you the wine menu. If you’re like most people, you flip to the back page where the cheap stuff is, scan the page for the least expensive per-glass line, and order whatever it may be.

Yes, restaurants make a ton of money selling customers a bottle of wine at an incredibly high markup. The same bottle that can run $100 or more in the restaurant may only cost you $20 at the local wine shop…assuming the local wine shop even carries that label or vintage.

So how do you know which wine is a good value when you’re looking at the menu?

The Wall Street Journal has written a handy guide to help you SAVE MONEY WHEN BUYING WINE AT A RESTAURANT.

Tags 10 Things, How To, shopping, wine

10 Things Travel

10 Things You Don’t Know About… Yourself Until You Travel Alone

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 30, 2009

Cameron Karsten writes spiritual and health-related columns for a travel magazine. Here are his 10 THINGS YOU LEARN ABOUT YOURSELF WHEN YOU TRAVEL ALONE:

Responsibility
Self-reliance
Independence
Likes & Dislikes
Emotions
Patterns & Reactions
Past Analyzation
Future Dreams
Care for Oneself
How to Love

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10 Things Gambling How To

How To Pick the NCAA Basketball Bracket

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 15, 2009

Whether you call it the NCAA Men’s College Basketball Championship, March Madness, Bracketology, or the World’s Best Office Pool, every year office work grinds to a halt as millions of people sweat over their 63 game selections as they fill out their basketball brackets – hoping ultimately to win their local office pool.

How tough is it to pick the perfect tournament bracket? Try 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1 (nine quintillion, if you lost track of the number of commas in that number).

Officially, the NCAA does not support using the grid in any form of gambling, and frowns upon the amount of effort thrown at filling out the brackets for monetary gain.

Got that? Good. Now that THAT is out of the way, let’s talk about the 10 BEST WAYS TO FILL OUT YOUR BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT BRACKET SO YOU CAN WIN YOUR OFFICE POOL.

(Okay, we may cover more than 10 rules for you to follow while filling out your bracket, but who’s counting?)

Tags 10 Things, basketball, Gambling, How To, march madness, ncaa, office pool, sports

10 Things Travel

10 Things You Don’t Know About… Seattle

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 12, 2009

Seattle is a great place to visit.

It’s a nice town. A bit damp, but very nice. Good people, good food, comfortable weather, if you don’t mind the mist. Well worth the trip if you haven’t had a chance to go. (Here’s a hint: take the city bus from the airport to downtown. It’s reasonably priced and will get you where you want to go. All the locals do it.)

I thought about linking over to 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE MOVING TO SEATTLE, but the list started off with…

It rains
No really, it rains a lot here

I’ve watched the Seattle Convention and Visitor’s Bureau promotional video – they claim that Denver has more rain than Seattle does. Comparing what the video tells me just didn’t jive with the “Moving to Seattle” list.

So I decided to go with the TOP 10 THINGS SEATTLE GIRLS SHOULD DO TO LOOK HOT. Here are the highlights:

Wear Makeup
Do Seattle girls just not care, because every time I see one, I throw up a little. However, this one is tricky. Too much makeup or makeup improperly used can make you look like a hooker or a clown.
Wear Cute Dresses and Skirts
blue jeans and a black Northface does not constitute as dressing up.
Work Out That Butt
girls in Seattle tend to have wider loads.
Wear Heels
heels are sexy. They also make your butt look sexier.
Stop Looking Like Men

Tags 10 Things, Travel

10 Things

10 Things You Don’t Know About… Golf on TV

Post author By web gangsta
Post date March 5, 2009

Jack Graham at Golf Digest wrote a list of 10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GOLF ON TV back in 2004. I’m sure most of these are still valid. Here are a few of the items that were raised – go read the article for the others.

Only half the shots you see are actually live.
The commentators won’t tell you which shots are live and which are taped, and taped shots that are called by on-course announcers have the play-by-play done live on-air while the tape is played, by memory.
We know the hole truth.
Some hole locations will work better for TV while others are more difficult to work with. The TV producers will try to suggest to the tour officials which positions would be better suited for a televised schedule, and hopefully the course decisions will take those suggestions into account when planing hole locations.
We fiddle with the leader board.�
Big names playing in the tournament go to the top of the chart, for more visibility.
You’ll learn much more if you watch on a weekday.
During the week, announcers have more time to talk as the tournament’s storylines haven’t been developed yet.
Want to get on TV? It’s easy.�
All TV producers want is an eye-catching gallery. Cute babies always work, as does hovering around the player’s wives or girlfriends.
We miss plenty of shots, but none of Tiger’s.
Because everyone wants to watch Tiger.

Tags 10 Things, Golf

10 Things News Websites

Playboy’s List of Top Party Schools 2008

Post author By web gangsta
Post date July 30, 2008

Playboy has released their list of the TOP 10 PARTY SCHOOLS FOR 2008:

University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of California, Santa Barbara
Arizona State University
Indiana University Bloomington
San Diego State University
Florida State University
Ohio University
University of Georgia
University of Tennessee
McGill University

For comparison purposes, take a look at who is on the Princeton Review’s list of the top ten party schools, based on a survey of 120,000 students:

University of Florida
University of Mississippi
Penn State University
West Virginia University
Ohio University
Randolph-Macon College
University of Georgia
University of Texas
University of California-Santa Barbara
Florida State University
University of New Hampshire
University of Iowa
University of Colorado
Indiana University
Tulane University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arizona State University
University of Tennessee
University of Alabama
Loyola University-New Orleans

Tags alcohol, college, News, Party Schools, Party Talk, playboy, website

10 Things Travel

The World’s Best Tourists for 2008

Post author By web gangsta
Post date June 3, 2008

EXPEDIA has released their list of the WORLD’S BEST TOURISTS as voted on by hoteliers around the world. Here are the results of the 31 nationalities, as ranked from Best to Worst.

Some nationalities excelled in certain categories. Germans, for example, came across as being the tidiest of all nationalities. Canadians were deemed most popular. The French weren’t good tippers.