AuthorJosh Benson

Bad Apples

Check this out – LA cops seized $10 million worth of fake iPhones, iPods and other Faux-Apple products. The Los Angeles Port Police seized the counterfeit goods from several downtown warehouses as part of a massive two-month long bust. What they found, according to the LA Times: Counterfeit products with an estimated street value of more than $1.4 million; stolen electronics, toys and...

Drive-By Salesman

I was on my home from a work event a few days ago and a strange thing happened. I’m putting along in my car, minding my own business and this obnoxious guy is hanging out of a pickup truck throwing me the ‘roll your window down’ gesture. As we came to a stoplight,  I obliged despite a fear he was going to shoot me. “Heyyyy man,” he uttered in his burn-out voice...

Facebook Weight Loss Hack: Annoying!

I knew something was up when one of my buddies (who’s a slender 150 lbs. or so) posted on my wall that he was trying a new weight loss product. Scamware. I hate it. I can’t stand spyware, adware, scamware, malware…any ware for that matter. Crooked companies and affiliate commission-hungry cyber-geeks are getting awfully clever at pushing their products. It’s all a scam...

Need a house?

I came across a bizarre story in MSN Real Estate about a 72,000 square-foot house being built in Missouri. Yes, it could be the one of the largest new houses in the country, but the story is intriguing because no one is exactly sure who’s going to live there. The home under construction between Ozark and Branson, just off U.S. 65. Even more interesting is that zoning requirements in the...

Tucson, Tuscon, Tuscan

Something I learned immediately when I got a job at KVOA was how to spell T-U-C-S-O-N. It’s amazing to see how often it is misspelled on national, cable and local television news coverage, even in the newspaper. It’s also mispronounced a million different ways as well. I’m hoping the news out of Tucson will shed a little light for fellow news peeps to spell and say it right!

Tucson shooting coverage, aftermath

Anytime there’s a big story like the shooting in Tucson – you can’t help but glue yourself to the TV to watch the latest developments. For me, it’s like an all day event despite little information that is reported. But when it’s in your backyard – it’s surreal. I shopped at the Safeway where the shooting occurred. I lived less than a mile away. So to see...

6th time’s a charm

I failed again. Sigh. P90X is one strange mess. I figured if I couldn’t begin the workout program and finish 90 days by over-planning, being creative, tricking myself, penalizing myself and so on, I might as well just stick with everyone else and make ‘working out’ a New Year’s resolution in 2011. So I started P90X for the 6th time. Nice follow-through, huh. Sheesh! It was...

Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend

Not really. But Brian Monahan and I are holding down the fort at WFTV tonight (Sunday). Brian is our new meteorologist from WINK-TV in Fort Myers. If you have a chance to tune in tonight, we’ll be on Channel 27 for Eyewitness News at 10:00 and then over on Channel 9 for Eyewitness News at 11:00. I also told him about my recent discovery of Doorstep Delivery. This is an ingenious website...

Christmas!

It’s funny to think it’s even Christmas morning. Living in downtown Orlando gives me very little sense that Christmas is even here. I’ve haven’t noticed any Christmas lights up or decorations (but it’s mostly tall buildings – so there are no trees, big yards or enough space to spread out a Nativity Scene). So I guess this year it sneaked up on me. I spent my...

Welcome home, grab a shovel

Made it. What a journey. I really want to pressure wash myself of airports, cheap hotels, long lines, Delta cookies (but they’re still so damn good) and the various knots in my left shoulder blade. I arrived home about noon today to a driveway that was BURIED. My parents were stuck at my brother’s house and were nice enough to pick me up at the airport when I finally arrived from...

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