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StumbleUpon completely revamped its website Monday adding a new logo, design and a channel feature that gives brands a non-intrusive role in the service. “Really this is the biggest refresh in terms of look and feel that we’ve ever had on the web,” StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp said. While the social web discovery site sported a green and blue logo with its initials, SU, winding through it Sunday, it switched to an orange logo that includes more abstract initials Monday. The website’s once...Read Full Story

A week or so before Christmas, Paula sent me a box of Sea-Monkeys . Having read my original post about how my parents wouldn’t let me have them when I was kid , she knew how much I’ve always wanted them. Tonight we finally started on them . . .   Me: Are you afraid at all? Are you scared of these Sea-Monkeys? Buck: I’m just worried about what will happen when we go to sleep. Me: You mean what they’ll do at night? Buck: Yeah. I just don’t know if they’ll stop breeding. Ever. The idea...Read Full Story

Me: I’m just gonna like, stop blogging on my other blog and focus on the Life With Buck one.  ‘Cuz, you know, two blogs are too much. I can’t keep up with the posts, I can’t find time to read other blogs, and I don’t have time to work. Buck: … Me: I’m going to focus on the Life With Buck blog. Buck: Are you talking to me? Me: Jesus … YEAH. I’m talkin’ to you. Buck: How was I supposed to know this wasn’t just some blathering you were doing – Me: This is a real moment, it’s not a...Read Full Story

Me: Oh my God. What it is with you and batteries ? You’re killin’ me – Buck: What? The batteries are right where they always are – Me: But you’ve got all these dead ones. Why do you keep these dead batteries? It’s like you’ve got this ailment involving dead batteries – Buck: They’re not dead. They work just fine in clocks. Me: Ugh. I feel like the next thing you’ll be re-using is our old coffee grounds. This is retarded. Buck: [laughing] Everything is retarded to you. You’re so...Read Full Story

Part One of this post appears below this post.   Me: THEY DO NOT. Italy does not have a fucking space program. Buck: Yes they do. Umberto Guidoni is an Italian astronaut. He was in the Italian Air Force. Me: Italy has an Italian Air Force? Ha. I find that impossible to believe. You’re so full of shit. [laughing] So … you took a special NASA bus at some point. Buck: Yeah, I couldn’t believe when I saw the bus driver. I didn’t even realize he was the bus driver, I thought he some...Read Full Story