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Apparently, nowadays they just give these things out. I plan to apply next year. What exactly had Obama done by February 1 to warrant nomination? And cut the leftist hippie bull, John. Do you honestly believe that nobody else out there deserved it more on February 1, when nominations were due? Or even now? What […]

Smoking is already illegal in a lot of public places - even privately owned buildings like bars and things - in a lot of cities and states. The argument being that your right to wave your arms about ends at my nose. To be honest I think laws like this are fine, but I've intentionally […]

Consider this an open place to share your thoughts on 9/11, eight years after the events occurred. The memory that sticks out most for me is that my office-mate Alison, who had family in NYC, was desperately trying to call her family and our boss came in and said "My family's fine, so yours is […]

Does anyone have any recommendations on a good office chair? I'm primarily looking for only two things: cost and comfort. I'd like a chair that's priced in the mid-range and which is comfortable. Clients don't visit my home office, so I'm not concerned with looks at all. The chair I have now I've had for, […]

An update to this post about our car search. Now we're looking at the Subaru Forester. Any Subaru Forester owners out there with comments? Specifically, we're looking at a 2010 2.5X Limited for about $26,500. The only incentives right now are 4.9% financing (yawn), and invoice is $24,335 + $695 destination + a few options […]

A unique perspective compares universal health care (by way of universal health insurance) to universal auto insurance. Summary: didn't work there, won't work for health care. Thanks Daniel.

My wife's looking at a new car. I mentioned this a few weeks ago when she was thinking about the CR-V. Now we're throwing the car search wide open. Carey wants a 2010 (or 2009) version of the Aztek and the features it has: good handling, lots of room, great gas mileage ((The Aztek, though […]

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I normally shy away from chicken breast sandwiches, both in restaurants and at home. Previously I made them on the George Foreman grill (once, maybe) and the meat was dry and tasteless. Cut to tonight, when I made the most incredible chicken sandwiches ever. I simply cut off the flank part of the breast to […]

How's he done? And, in hindsight (six-month hindsight, anyway), was all that self-assigned intellectual superiority really warranted, or has Obama pretty much failed to live up to expectations? We're still in Iraq and I hear taxes on the middle class are going up. Now, again, I'm not terribly political, but I am a fan of […]

Without giving it a lot of thought, answer this question in your mind: As relative humidity increases, does air get denser or less dense? Now think about it for a little while. Do you get the same answer?

I'd like to grill some beer butt chicken - anyone out there have any recommendations on some good recipes to take things up a notch? Of course, I haven't tried the basic recipe yet - perhaps that's all I need?

If the idea is to create a nim sum of 0 as this article proposes, then I've yet to find a way to win at this game of Nim. D'oh. Once I figured out that I could make Marvin go first I won the first time. The nim sum is already 0 when you start […]

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Nearly every time a significant date arises in U.S. or even North American history, I think back to my trip to France. In the U.S., we see things and are told "this was built in 1612" and we go "oooooooh." Then we go to France or wherever and see things that were built before Christ […]