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If you grill you need to check out Exploding Unicorn’s License to Grill. Bonus if you’ve ever lived in an apartment complex with insane rules. The article is also proof that when such rules get stupid people get creative. Though most of the creativity here is literary..
I’m not a master chef, but I […]

Just in case you’re looking forward to seeing the new Lucas Oil Stadium there are some great pics of it underway over on the Pacers Digest forum. The place looks massive!

So they’ve finally admitting what every WalMart shopper knows, the inflation rate has been heading up for quite awhile. Naturally the fingers point to fuel which, along with bio-fuel demands on grain, is one of the driving factors pushing food costs higher not only in the United States but globally.
But here is something that makes […]

To the Smurfs, the origin of the blue chosen when the UN decided they needed better targets, er, hats for their heads.

I have to wonder if these mysterious counterfeit $100 bills have anything to do wtih the rapid devaluation of US currency over the last 18 months. There were certainly concerns about press technology given to Iran many years ago..?

Or so says the advertisment of the mother selling her son’s car because she found booze under the seat. Kudos.

After gun control, sword control and knife control.. coming soon to Britian: Hammer control. I wonder if the penalties or licensing will be different for “claw” versus “ball peen”?

Polls have been unliable measures of political will in America for a long time. Locally the polls have been wrong the last few election cycles and the inaccuracy gap has been widening to the point polls published locally are a popular target of ridicule.
The trend continues elsewhere around the country but ever so […]

An interesting Russian article telling us why a cold spell soon to replace global warming.

It only took a couple of weeks to choose 144 pictures out of 1088 to put into the Las Vegas 2007 gallery but it’s finally done. Though I’ve recounted the story a dozen times I’ve yet to actually write down the details of our experiences. Maybe I’ll get to a more detailed account at some […]

While in Vegas last week we shot up a lot of camera memory. Rather than spend money on more memory cards we’d only need for 3 or 4 days I thought to use the kiosk computers found at most any drug store to dump the memory sticks to a CD.
By Tuesday evening I had […]

I mentioned I thought the Challenger concept car is hot and have been casually watching for them to hit the street. Now that they’re almost here I see the price tag puts them well out of what I will afford at almost $38k MSRP. But there seems to be a huge draw to this new […]

Stories like this just warm my heart…

I firmly believe someone who commits acts of violence is responsible for those actions no matter their “environment” but when we start talking about kids it gets a bit murkier. While gamers and Hollywood deny their “media” does not induce, cause or lead to violence the escalation of youth violence over the past decade warrants […]

I cannot express how much I like the open office spaces concept of office organization and seating. Having worked in both environs the benefits of an open office far outweigh the pros of individual offices, even at a board room level.
The first time I read of this was in Michael Bloombergs autobiography […]

An interesting look at the dangers of radiation in the Spiegel article Nuclear Exaggeration: Is Atomic Radiation as Dangerous as We Thought? We know there are dangers in radiation and to error on the side of caution is prudent. But with a couple of real world population center detonations studying the effects is also prudent. […]

It must have really been a slow news day for this totally inane piece to have gotten past the editor or more importantly the logic sensors….
Most of the United States, including the Northeast heating oil market except for Maine, will see above-normal temperatures from December through February, government forecasters predicted Thursday.
Part of me says […]

Here is another and a live version from this past august that shows Gordon still has it all these years later. Anyway, if this puts you in the mood for more Gordon Lightfoot check out If you could read my mind, Sundown, Early morning rain, Carefree highway, Don Quixote, 14 Karat Gold, […]

A couple of observations… interesting how Hollywood is all in favor of the average worker, the man on the street, until they have to pony up themselves. Conversely… show me something original written and coming out of Hollywood that is worth a plug nickel. I have seen very little in the last […]

I think someone has been watching too much StarGate SG1….

The economy of the US is quite strong though a few segments are doing their best to pull it down. The high cost of oil, partly due to the devaluation of our currency, faltering refinancing rates due to slack policing of lending practices and a slumping housing market are the main drains. But a 3rd […]

We all know that the surging hurricane activity is because of global warming, right? That because of “Man” hurricanes such as Katrina will become more frequent and stronger. That’s why we’ve had such horrific damage caused to the United States this year from these catastrophic hurricanes… er… oh.. guess not!
Does that prove anything other […]

When masks are outlawed only outlaws will have masks.

Those horrific fires in California? Yeah, arson. Probably some asshat green who believe humans should stay in “their area”.

Don’t let the article fool you, Massachusetts has had lots of turkeys, they just send them all to Washington! Seriously though I’ve been a woodsman for 30 years and have not in any of that time seen the plethora of wild game that I see today. I have to wade through Turkey and deer […]