Shut It Down...

As you can see, it is has been a little while since the last Morning Brew. But no need to fear.... today is no different. No Brew for a while. I will still be posting relevant links on the 8 Hours To Kill Twitter feed (visible on the right hand side of the screen as well).

Of course, there will still be Jersey Shore reviews, and other ramblings here, just not on a day-to-day basis for the immediate future. Follow the Twitter feed, or put us in your Google Reader feed to know when new posts are made!

Happy 2010 everyone!

Morning Brew for 12/4

I did not get a chance to watch the new MTV series, Jersey Shore last night. But don't you worry, I will be sure to catch the 2-hour premier via my DVR sometime over the weekend. Anyway, onto the real stories of the day.

-The Director of the United States Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, appeared in a house hearing yesterday on Capital Hill to discuss the mistakes the Secret Service made in allowing Tareq, and Michaele Salahi to crash President Obama's first State Dinner last week at the White House. During the hearing Sullivan admitted that the Secret Service made a mistake. He also mentioned that he was relieved that no lives were lost as a result of their mistake. No kidding? Good work Mr. Sullivan!

-Speaking of the Salahi's, I posted a link to this article from the Washington Post yesterday on our Twitter Account, which mentions how Michaele faked her way into a Washington Redskins Cheerleader position. I don't know if this story can get any better.

-In honor of the new George Clooney movie, Up In The Air, USA Today has an in-depth feature on big spending frequent fliers and the treatment they receive from airlines. I don't know why this is so fascinating to me, but for some reason it is. For any of you out there who are close to reaching a certain milestone in your frequent flier program make sure to give this article a glance.

-The United States Jobless Rate has dipped to 10 percent in November. This can only mean good things for a blog dedicated to getting people through their work day, right? I mean you are telling your co-workers about us, aren't you?

That's it for today. Remember you can always e-mail me if you stumble across a link you'd like to share. You will receive full credit. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

We're Back!!

Guess who's back? Back again..... After taking a short break to take care of some business I'm very happy to announce that the blog dedicated to getting you through your work day, school day, or your Monday, is back. I probably will be changing things up ever so slightly from the previous format. Instead of posting things under a Sports headline, or Entertainment, I am just going to find the best links that I can and get them all in one location for you.

As an added wrinkle for 8 Hours to Kill 2.0, I invite all of you to follow us on Twitter. Just click here to go to the Twitter page and make sure you follow us for all of our latest updates. I'm thinking that I will still do a morning post (tentitively scheduled to go online around 10 MST each morning), and will throw different links out on Twitter that are sent in throughout the day, or that I stumble across online. If you see a link you want posted please e-mail it in or send us a message on our Twitter page.

Enough of the business, let's get to today's Morning Brew:

-Worried about getting the H1N1 Virus? Well according to Kellogg's your morning bowl of Cocoa Krispies might just save your life. The FDA is still investigating whether or not Kellogg's is violating any laws with "false advertising".

-Anyone who knows me, knows how passionate I am about remembering 9/11. So it was a no-brainer for me to link to this article that is talking about the U.S.S. New York returning "home". The ship was made with 7.5 tons of steel that was taken from Ground Zero, will be officially commissioned on Saturday. Very cool.

-Need goosebumps? The crew of the U.S.S. New York recalls where they were when they found out about the 9/11 attacks.

-This article nearly had me spitting coffee on my table while reading the USA Today this morning. A 78-year old man describes how new technologies are killing communication. A must read!

-In case you were ignoring your television this weekend, Brett Favre returned to Green Bay this weekend. The Green Bay Press Gazette has an entire section on their website dedicated to just this weekends Packers/Vikings game. Think they care much about local football? As of posting this the game story on there website has a mere 1,328 comments on it.

-The Yankees have taken a commanding 3 games to 1 lead over the Phillies in the World Series. During Saturday's Game 3, Alex Rodriguez hit a ball off of a camera lens in right field. Originally called a double by umpires, A-Rod was awarded a home run after the umpires used instant replay to review the play. This was the firs time in World Series history that instant replay has been used to over turn a call on the field.

-The bigger story about the overturned home run, is why haven't I seen a replay of from the camera that was hit by the ball? I mean Fox can show us 438 different angles of Charlie Manuel, and Joe Girardi, but I can't see a replay of a home run coming into my living room? C'mon Joe Buck make this happen!

100th Post!

So I was getting ready to publish this week's Moron of the Week, when I realized that this post will be number 100 on 8 Hours to Kill. So instead of getting a Moron of the Week, I am going to post some great links that have been sent in over the past 99 posts that will hopefully get you through your weekend and ready for work on Monday.

-Gus Johnson, oh how we love thee.

-I'm glad KG isn't afraid to speak his mind.

-Boom, roasted.

-I've actually had multiple people send in this video. It's never too early to prepare for your fantasy football team.

-NSFW: T-Pain enjoys his time on a boat.

-This is why I don't dunk. Oh, that and I have no vertical leap.

-OH! He threw your dance move in the stands! I don't know why, but this might be my favorite video that I've posted.

-You've all seen the Afro Ninja. But it never hurts to watch it again.

-Ever since Lindsay Lohan broke up with Samantha Ronson, she has been looking for love in all the wrong places.

-My favorite Moron of the Week thus far.

-My least favorite professional athlete. As if losing to the Lakers wasn't bad enough, now I have to watch this jackass play basketball for another month.

-I just posted this yesterday, but check out a classic Saved by the Bell video.

That will do it for our 100th post. My biggest thanks goes out to everyone who has sent in links thus far, and hopefully there will be many more posts to come!

Got a link you want to send in? E-Mail it to 8hourstokill@gmail.com.

Not So Much...

So every morning I prepare for my post by looking through certain websites (I'm sure you can tell which ones based on the links I provide), this morning while doing my daily browsing looking for stories I couldn't come up with anything. Seriously, there isn't much to post about today. Did the world not do anything yesterday? I mean, I know that I didn't, but what about everyone else?

I did catch up on 24 last night. While I never will post spoilers on here, I must say that if you've never watched the show do yourself a favor and pick up the DVD's and plow through them. I wont' blame you for skipping season 6, but the other seasons are all fantastic.

I need your links! Seriously people, you can read the headlines that I post on here anywhere, but it's the funny videos, interesting stories, and witty blogs that help make this blog run. Feel free to send anything you find interesting in to me. I will post it and give you full credit. Send the links to 8hourstokill@gmail.com, it will make me happy when my BlackBerry blinks and tells me that I have new e-mails.

What We Do

I know some people have been trickling into the blog over the weekend probably wondering what what it is all about. So, I figured for the weekend post I would again try and explain what the blog is all about. Basically what I am trying to do is gather some of the best links online and post them in one spot because let's face it, we all have 8 hours to kill every day.

I have for the past little while been posting primarily sports links. I think for the upcoming week I am going to change it up a little and have a sports section, an entertainment section, and a news section, plus of course any links that you all send in.

If you come across an article, a blog, a YouTube video or anything else you find interesting please send it to 8hourstokill@gmail.com. Trust me other people will find it interesting and it will help them get through their work/school day.

Thanks again for stopping by, check back each day as new posts are made multiple times a day all work week long!

-BC

So You're Here...

So most of the people that are reading this post right now followed my link from Facebook. Thank you. As I explained in the message what my goal is with the blog is to help people get through their 8 hours at work. We all spend time browsing the web looking for funny videos, or interesting articles, or the latest sports news, ok so maybe that last one is more for people like me, but I'd like for there to be a blog where people can share these things with each other, and hopefully 8 Hours To Kill will become that blog.

Beginning as soon as you start sending me some links I will change some of the format of the blog. I still will post the daily updates with the latest sports/entertainment news, but I will follow it with The Links section. (By the way, a catchy title for that section is still available.) This is where I will post the links that you send to me, with full credit given of course.

If you have links please send them to 8hourstokill@gmail.com

Also if you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to leave them below, or send me an e-mail.

Thanks everyone, I look forward to hearing from you all!

-BC