New Games

If you are reading this blog I am sure that at some point in your drinking career you have enjoyed a drinking game or seven.  You probably even have your favorite game that you and your partying friends have personalized for yourselves.  Personally I am pretty biased towards flip cup and beer pong.  I enjoy these two games so much that I rarely find the opportunity to play any new games.  Recently I have partaken in a new game which I found to be more than mildly entertaining.  The game is called washers and as far as I can tell originated somewhere in the midwest.  I must say this game is probably towards the top of the short list of good things to come out of the midwest.  It is a game similar to horseshoes but modified so that it can be played anywhere (including indoors).  After realizing the greatness of this game I have come to the conclusion that there are probably many worthy drinking games out there that people may be unaware of.

Todays reason to drink is an interactive reason that will require some assistance from our faithful reader(s).  In the comments section post your favorite drinking game and the rules that go with it.  Then you can choose a new game from the list and that will be the days reason to drink.

Chin Chin Thought Experiemtn No. 1

According to Wickipedia, on June 30, 1905:

Albert Einstein published the article “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” and introduced the theory of special relativity.

In the spirit of Einstein, Here’s a thought experiment for you; imagine your riding on a ray of light, and you pass somebody riding a zebra going the opposite direction. What happens when you attempt to toast one another?

There’s a new biography of Al that looks interesting, at least if you’ve got an inner geek like I do. Maybe I’ll go pick it up to celebrate the big anniversary. Whatever your answer to the experiment is, it should include toasting Albert Einstein.

I’m Working On Mine

I’m trying to figure one out that will reap many ‘hits’ for Chin Chin. Any ideas. Lets raise a glass to pyramid schemes.

DIY: The Shotski

So a month and change in we’ve finally changed the header from the default. I labored for all of ten minutes. Look to the top of the page, and you’ll know see a few of my boys enjoying a shotski. If you’ve never had the pleasure, it’ll make for a nice weekend project that even the Pitt could pull off. Just get a ski with no binding (you could work around the binding, but working is for suckers), you’re bet off with a long skinny ski. Your dad probably has two leftover from when he rocked the local mountain in the eighties, before his back gave out. Glue some shot glasses to it, grab some friends and your ready to go. But here’s the important part, before imbibing, you have to sing the song:

I’m a little shot-ski, long and slim

Fill me up with liquor to the brim

When your not drunk, no need to pout

Tip me over and pour me out!

So pour one (or four) back in honor of the shot-ski

Harry Ellis

With the arrival of the new Die Hard movie (which by the way I will end up seeing no matter what because its DIE HARD!!!!) I started thinking about some of my favorite things from the original Die Hard Trilogy. One of my favorite secondary characters has to be Harry Ellis, you may remember him from such lines as “I negotiate million dollar deals for breakfast, I think I can handle this Eurotrash”, and “Hans booby, baby”. He also hits on John McClaines wife infront of Mr. McClaine and at one point is wiping Cocaine residue off his nose.

The reason I like Harry Ellis is because he is the epitomy of that guy. If you don’t know what i mean by “that guy” I ask you to immediately navigate away from this blog and never return. If you dont know about “that guy” you are “that guy” and this highly enjoyable blog is not for you. The beauty of that guy is that as annoying as he is, his value cannot be measured, his presence immediately makes every other guy in the bar that much more attractive to the ladies. In fact sometimes it is even acceptable to get drunk enough to become “that guy” for the night to make your friends better. So tonight go out and if “that guy” hasn’t shown up to the bar by 11 O’clock feel free to have a few more sodas and take on that role for the night, your friends will thank you in the morning and when they do tell them it was the wonderful advice of ChinChin that made you do these things.

Here’s to Harry Ellis, a.k.a “that guy”.

The NBA draft

I am writing this not sure when it will be posted because I will be on an island with no electricity the next several days but here is the deal. The NBA draft is coming up and as a Sonics fan (if you are one of the few who admit to it anymore) this is a huge reason to drink. The draft can go one of two ways, the sonics make the obvious move and draft either Durant or Oden (whoever Portland leaves us) and you will want to celebrate the future of our franchise so why not get a jumpstart. The alternative is that the sonics will draft Spencer Hawes (tell me this doesnt have Seattle boneheaded move written all over it, overrated white center, local kid, the next Jim McClvaine). In this case you will NEED to drunk so you are numb when the end of Basketball in the Seattle area hits us. Regardless the outcome, here is to the NBA draft.

Steve Jobs Knows What I Wanna Listen To

Since the print addition of Chin Chin won’t be out for at least a month, you’re probably reading this on a computer. And if your use a computer these days, theres a pretty good chance you use iTunes.

I use iTunes, and I like iTunes, but one feature I’ve never gotten into is smart playlists, I played around with them a while ago but wasn’t pleased with the results. I just read this on lifehacker, which lead me to this, both seem like good methods for getting pretty good smart playlists. I like the second, tagging method better. Using the staring system limits you to five “genres” and I like to use one star to remind me to delete the track. I’m going to have to set aside a few hours to start asigning some tags to my library, party, mellow, bonin’, bloggingMusic, etc. If you were wondering, I’m all about Russian techno when I blog.

Here’s to smart playlists.

Dirty Drinks

While spending the last week in Jamaica I realized an interesting phenomenon; drinks with funny names just seem to taste slightly better.  For example something I never even thought about ordering before in my life, a shirley temple with vodka, now name it a Dirty Shirley and all of the sudden it becomes so much fun to say the drink name you cannot stop ordering them.  Same thing goes for the Jamacian specailty the “Dirty Banana” just try ordering one of these and when the bartender asks how dirty you want it reply “a little dirtier than a mustache”.  It promises to be good times for everyone involved.  I am pretty sure this phenomenon works for more standard drinks to such as turning a budweiser into a “dirty bud” or a PBR into a “dirty ribbon” so tonight try it out, go to your local watering hole and order your favorite drink in dirty form, you might just have a good time.  Cheers to that.

State of the Blog

The 21st was our one-month anniversary and I didn’t post on it, so I’m doing it now. If recent trends continue we’ll have had about 2,300 hits by the time you read this, mostly people looking for pictures of Anna Kournakova, smoking monkeys, or pirate related information. I hope a few of the 2,000 enjoyed the blog, but that might be asking a bit much.

To one month of chin-chin!

The Manifesto Toast

I’m not really a religious man, and I don’t have a problem with that. One problem with not being religious is it gives you more decisions to make. Let’s say your a devout Catholic, and your out and about and run into two beautiful women, and they both make it clear that they would like to sleep with you. Being Catholic, you’d believe that the passionate and adventurous sex being offered was wrong, so you’d tip your cap, tell them what dirty sinners they are and walk away. Without the belief system you have a tough choice to make.

Or suppose your a Bhuddist, and you get two phone calls shortly before leaving work on friday. One is from a friend who invites you to come to his house party were you will attempt to drink a keg of beer with four other people. It would be clear that this type of behavior is not what the Buddha would have called the middle path. The next call is another friend who is headed to hot dog eating contest. Sure it would be fun, but you’re following the eight-fold path, so you pass. Tough decision avoided.

I read a book a while back called the The Paradox of Choice about how the many choices are super-modern-fantastic-capitalist-society can force us into making decisions that make us consumers less happy than we would be without all these choices.

It’d be nice to have some kind of belief system to narrow all these decisions down, but church is too early in the morning, I can’t afford Scientology and I’m not nice enough to be a Mormen. I wouldn’t even know where to find a Hindu temple. The best viable option seems to be to come up with my own system, possibly for later publication. But then I’m either a waco writing a manifesto or a sleezy self help guru, I’m not sure I’m prepared for either. So I guess I’m stuck with all those choices.

So lets all raise a glass to anyone brave/crazy enough to write a manifesto. It’s a group that doesn’t get much love.