{"id":368,"date":"2012-05-05T04:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T04:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2012-05-05T04:29:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T04:29:15","slug":"the-best-job-on-earth-or-what-i-watch-on-a-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/the-best-job-on-earth-or-what-i-watch-on-a-bad-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The best job on earth (or what I watch on a bad day)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a friend who, rather than watching television, spends evenings trawling through YouTube <\/a>for fun videos. I have to admit, I never spent much time on the site. Sometimes my brother — who apparently doesn’t have a lot to do — will send me a link to something funny. Or that he thinks is funny.<\/p>\n

Still, it was an enlightening experience because I think I found the man who has the best job on earth. He is Tom Dickson, the chairman and CEO of BlendTec<\/a>, which makes upmarket blenders. Very upmarket — they range from about $500 to over $1,000 each. Dickson is best known for his Will it Blend<\/a> videos in which he takes a variety of objects to see if the blenders will, indeed, blend them without breaking. There are about 100 of these videos experimenting with a variety of objects and substances — from the iPhone 4S<\/a> to Superglue<\/a>, each more amusing than the last.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know that Dickson was the CEO when I first saw the videos. I thought he was a guy hired to try to break the blenders who took his job very seriously but still had a great sense of humor. I still think the last part is true, and I bet if you asked Dickson what part of his job he liked best, blending golf balls<\/a>, marbles<\/a>, glow sticks<\/a>, Spam <\/a>or whatever else is suggested by Facebook<\/a> fans would be at the top. I wonder what his favorite blend was? Maybe the Bailout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Being a thoughtful sister, I sent a link to the site to my brother. I figured he’d be at least as enamored of it as I am, being he’s male and therefore gets a lot more pleasure out of destruction than I do. He liked the Eepybird sticky notes video<\/a> more — surprising because it’s arty, not destructive. On a bad day, Will it Blend is my version of baby animal videos.<\/p>\n

So take a look. And your welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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