This afternoon, after Mass at the Ca...

This afternoon, after Mass at the Cathedral, I made pancakes while the rest of my family slept.As soon as I can get the Internet to confirm

Cot Life 2000How to wrap a baby\'s...

Cot Life 2000How to wrap a baby\'s mattress for cot death (SIDS) prevention...

Yeah, so I\'ve got the coolest Sigg ...

Yeah, so I\'ve got the coolest Sigg bottle around......

Long story short, has anyone else no...

Long story short, has anyone else noticed that no matter what you put into Pandora,it ALWAYS gets back to R.E.M.?What\'s with that??!...

Ninja Skillz +1

Catching the full, glass bottle of cream as free-falls off of the top shelf in the fridge... ...with a carton of eggs. ...

Consolidation is not done for effici...

Consolidation is not done for efficiency, but for power....

Why do Why do people think that socialism is progressive?It isn\'t.It\'s going backwards.I had a longer post prepared, about how\'s it\'s a t...

Nearly all of the mass shoot...

Nearly all of the mass shootings of late have been in \"gun-free zones.\" And the ones that weren\'t -- at the New Life Church in Colorado and the Appalachian School of Law in...

Through clever use of beam splitters...
Through clever use of beam splitters and both constructive and destructive interference, the researchers can put each photon in a superposition of taking two paths. Although a photon can occup...

Right now, I feel like my country is...
Right now, I feel like my country is a child that has gone astray - gotten into drugs or, more accurately, is running around with the wrong crowd.I still love my kid - and my country - wit...

People always want to know what the ...
People always want to know what the male/female ratio is at No Pants. Over the past 7 years it�s gone from 0% to about 50% female....

cracks me up
The best is in the second video, where the guy sits down at the other guy\'s computer -- and when the blonde lady waits in line... until the \"Agent\" starts packing up......

Like the Founding Fathers, I beli...
Like the Founding Fathers, I believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to a free society. Where law-abiding citizens are most freely allowed to defend themselves, communi...

This is kind of an odd idea, and per...
This is kind of an odd idea, and perhaps morbid, but I submit it to you, gentle readers for consideration: the virtual cemetery.As you can see in my links on the right, I know a few blogge...

I used to look at lights left on and...
I used to look at lights left on and say \"somewhere, there\'s a coal plant burning.\"That\'s still largely true, for America, and it\'s still true that the intermittent \"power crises\" o...

bullet points for homeopathy
(a nexus of thought destined eventually for a complete work or essay)- It works. Not necessarily for everyone, but then again penicillin doesn\'t for every bacteria, either.- It work...

Indeed, ever increasing numbers of D...
Indeed, ever increasing numbers of Democrats are joining the ranks of us voters for whom \"voting Catholic\" means holding our nose and choosing the candidates in either party whose views are ...

Regulation is not an impediment to g...
Regulation is not an impediment to growth; it is the sine qua non for development, because competition drives markets but cannot thrive in markets controlled by monopolies that will be able to...

National Reviews 100 Best Non-Fictio...
National Reviews 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century...Not sure I agree with all the picks, or order, but there are some good ones on there.Next, I\'m heading over to PaperBackSw...

genius tech blog
Today I moved the Genius Tech Blog from its original home, hanging off of my corporate site to its new home:...

brain tug of war
So I spend the day coding and working with computers, which are heavy left-side-of-the-brain activities.Then when it comes to cooking dinner, I have to suddenly switch to my creative side,...

I cooked mussels today, for supper, ...
I cooked mussels today, for supper, and now I need to borrow a pressure washer to clean up.The kitchen floor is inches deep in bits of red onion, garlic shell, and unidentified and unident...

Now, this is funny \'cause it\'s tru...
Now, this is funny \'cause it\'s true......

I didn\'t know that iron-on patches ...
I didn\'t know that iron-on patches were so easy to apply. Had I known that, I would have been decorating my clothes with suchlike for some time hence.Anyways, my train of thought must ha...

You see, Michel Gondry got famous by...
You see, Michel Gondry got famous by directing videos for The White Stripes, Massive Attack and Bjork. These are three bands that, at some point in their lives, all white people have thought ...

three weeks of fatherhood
Little Baby Mark spent most of today* sleeping on me or wrapped up in his little moby wrap nestled up against my shirtless front, while I bustled about the house and worked on the computer....

PaperBackSwap.comThis is a dangerous, dangerous website.(If you do sign up, say I referred you! Donzilla. Not sure what happens, but...)...

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In China today, many people still wr...
In China today, many people still write letters and school assignments by hand, precisely because using a keyboard to type Chinese remains inconvenient. But aside from this practical considera...

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Well, our party plan backfired again...
Well, our party plan backfired again.This time, we thought we\'d use up our disposable napkins, disposable cups, reduce our stock of wine even further, and so forth.Nope.We end up,...

Today was beautiful outside.It r...
Today was beautiful outside.It reached nearly 60 degrees, was sunny, and pleasant. Very mild but nice.Yesterday I bought $17 worth of butter. I\'d never done that before.Because we...

We urge you to come to the obvious c...
We urge you to come to the obvious conclusion: there is no such thing as software. It is a mirage, an illusion, and the con artists who have foisted it on an unsuspecting publ...

day nine of fatherhood day nine of fatherhoodBaby used up the last of the EIGHTY (80) diapers provided by the diaper service. This was unprecedented. Daddy (that\'s me!) made an emergency run ou...

seventh day of fatherhood
Baby Mark is napping with TSG.He is making little motions with his bottom lip -- dreaming about eating.Then a frown passes over his brow. His face contorts as if he is going to scream....

ME: \"Look, Baby Mark\'s playing the...
ME: \"Look, Baby Mark\'s playing the guitar! And he\'s only six days old!\"(strumming his foot across the strings)Baby Mark: (makes protracted farting noises)ME: \"While pooping! ...

I walked my Mom back to the hotel wh...
I walked my Mom back to the hotel where she is staying tonight. She has been with us since the birth, an invisible Angel cleaning up endless dishes and doing countless loads of laundry and pre...

I firmly believe in having a monthly...
I firmly believe in having a monthly flower budget.Although, once we have our farm, that will not be necessary.Our little apartment is aswarm with flowers, some that TSG and I bought o...

More Baby Mark Pictures

\"Peace means something different fr...
\"Peace means something different from \'not fighting\'. Those aren\'t peace advocates, they\'re \'stop fighting\' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is par...

BABY MARK IS HERE!!!
MARK ISIDORE TURRENTINE1/30/2008 12:02 pm8 pounds 13.4 ounces21 inches longWe LOVE him.Our new family returned home today. There are more pictures on Trish\'s...

The case for FLEXCar
Here\'s my financial rationale for FLEXcar (cause some of my friends are balking at the $7/hr sticker price):It\'s all about true costs.First, one of the main advantages of fractional ...

\"If the media don\'t like you, the ...
\"If the media don\'t like you, the banks don\'t like you, the Republicans don\'t like you, the Democrats don\'t like you � doesn\'t that mean that you are really honest and telling it like it...

It\'s voluntary for physicians to re...
It\'s voluntary for physicians to report a patient\'s bad drug reaction to the FDA; moreover, when complications occur days afterward the connection isn\'t always made. The FDA itself has esti...

No Baby yet.We have, and I kid y...
No Baby yet.We have, and I kid you not, his first FOUR outfits picked out. AND his snowsuit is hanging on our coat rack by the door. Together with his BLUE hat.TSG said today that mayb...

Sometimes I forget that we are diffe...
Sometimes I forget that we are different people... but NEVER when I watch you fold laundry!...

Saturday was a shopping day.I gr...
Saturday was a shopping day.I gracious offered to chauffeur my Wife around, with the caveat that I was not going to enter any of the stores -- I was going to work on the car.So that\'s...

I just brushed my teeth with TWO too...
I just brushed my teeth with TWO toothbrushes. At the SAME time.If THAT doesn\'t blow your mind, I don\'t know what will....

The Baby\'s still inside, gentle rea...
The Baby\'s still inside, gentle readers.We thought he was coming on Tuesday, but then the last 3 ladies in the birth class all had their babies on that day (we came to find out yesterday)...

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Now if Now if this Doctor would run for President......

Things we spend money on habitually:...
Things we spend money on habitually: - Powells - BurgervilleThings we spend money on daily: -

Wow, after an afternoon and evening ...
Wow, after an afternoon and evening of night snowboarding yesterday I can barely move today.Up until halfway through the run last night we were all gung-ho about going again today.Cond...

I\'m reading I\'m reading this guy\'s book.It\'s funny, almost uncanny, how I\'ve already adopted his principles......just f...

So tomorrow we So tomorrow we grab a rig and hit the slopes.A couple of us s...

This does not mean we will have an e...
This does not mean we will have an easy time of it -- just the opposite, of course. After all, we are seeking to reverse more than a century of big government, of the warfare-welfare state, of...

Tonight I met one transient, three o...
Tonight I met one transient, three of our neighbors, and four of Portland\'s finest, including one fellow that I went to high school with.I\'ll fill you in with the story later. I\'m going...

Every time I hear Every time I hear this song on Pandora I think of

Springtime has brought back the floc...
Springtime has brought back the flocks of birds which play by our door...And also the red-breasted robins (a pack of about 15) who eat copious amounts of red berries and then sit in the tr...

Springtime for Portland
Well, we saw the first flowers of Spring yesterday here in Portland......so we are declaring the long, cold, hard Winter over.Our apartment has run amok with loads of laundry, piles of...

Please Ostracize Disturbed Comedy...

Well, our upstairs neighbors are hav...
Well, our upstairs neighbors are having their baby.The guy ran by me this afternoon, and said \"Tonight might be the night\" as he went past. Sure enough, maybe half an hour later off he z...

tis the season
I saw two people out jogging in the cold, clear evening.How much you wanna bet that (a) that\'s the product of a \"New Year\'s Resolution\" and (b) that they won\'t be out there doing that...

I got to vocab level 42 and 4160 gra...
I got to vocab level 42 and 4160 grains of rice.What can YOU do?...

\"You\'re saying we should make it e...
\"You\'re saying we should make it easier to access guns in a place where over a six month span this year we had 16 girls shot and six died?\"

Pray for Kenya and her people....

Just remember there are only three t...
Just remember there are only three things a plumber needs to know:1) Payday\'s Friday2) Water Runs Downhilland...

flexcar
Well, we joined Flexcar.I read over the rules, assessed the costs, weighed the pluses and minuses, and decided to join (we can give you a referral number...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!It snowed al...
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!It snowed all morning here, and we watched the flakes come down in between cramming various dishes into the oven, many at the same time -- mashed potatoes, ham, pumpkin...

The days are getting longer....
The days are getting longer....

RR spent the weekend, and today, sin...
RR spent the weekend, and today, since my Wife has entered the 9th month of pregnancy, I pitched in, and whilst she was reclining on the couch, made biscuits and gravy (With RR).The biscui...

My, have we been busy.Yesterday ...
My, have we been busy.Yesterday we dropped off our Scrabble game at Church, for the community Christmas tree. It will go to some needy family, and no doubt satiate their desire for wordy b...

A Man-With-Hat car. A Thirteen-A-Doz...
A Man-With-Hat car. A Thirteen-A-Dozen car.A car 99 out of 100 won\'t bother to turn their head for when passing.This page is for the 100th....

Check out Check out Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem.Used to work with Salamander Crossing... Just played in Oregon, we missed \'em.No iTunes Plus though, and no...

I don\'t understand(a) why peopl...
I don\'t understand(a) why people have itand(b) if you do have it, and that\'s the game you want to play, why you wouldn\'t keep doing 0%, 12-month balance transfers until banks li...

\"It\'s time to stop being daft abou...
\"It\'s time to stop being daft about Christmas. It\'s fine to celebrate and it\'s fine for Christ to be star of the show,\" said Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Com...

This was posted on the wall at This was posted on the wall at People\'s......

_______________HIGH SCORES____...
_______________HIGH SCORES_______________10.16.07 . . . Emma . . . \"Uninvite\" . . . 74 points10.16.07 . . . Don . . . \"Quas\" . . . 69 points*12.03.07 . . . Don . . . \"Fabler...

Well, well, well...This morning ...
Well, well, well...This morning I ate Goji berries and hemp seeds for breakfast... Packaged in granola made by Peace Cereal... I\'m still not sure w...

I just discovered I just discovered Echo Helstrom -- I love these guys!!!And yes, I just bought both their albums*, one...

Well, the Well, the Nob Hill Bar and Grill was the first place that TSG and I ate together after I moved to Portland, during the Summer just before we got ...

Independent Primary.com was started ...
Independent Primary.com was started by independent political activists from across America to establish and measure the power and impact of independent-minded voters on the presidential electi...

We went to see these guys live last ...
We went to see these guys live last night at the Clinton Corner Cafe... they ROCKED.Seems like they knew everyone in the crowd, seems like \"Pagan Tuesdays\" have been going on for a while...

NOW...
NOW is the time....

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We did not end up getting the house,...
We did not end up getting the house, as there were more problems with the loan. So, we are settling in here for the long winter (16 days till the solstice) and planning on having the baby in t...

Well.Things have NOT been quiet ...
Well.Things have NOT been quiet around here.Whilst TSG was at play with nineteen females and eight or nine infants and toddlers ran amuck in our two-room apartment, the men (including ...

Canadian columnist David Warren spec...
Canadian columnist David Warren speculated some years ago that enticing al-Qaida to fight there was one of the reasons why President Bush decided to invade Iraq. The administration has made so...

My Homeless Status*...
My Homeless Status* has gone from \"Cross on the other side of the street\" down to \"Avoid making eye contact.\"How did I do it? I trimmed my winter beard, showered, and ...

Well, my Mother arrived yesterday af...
Well, my Mother arrived yesterday afternoon, and ever since our apartment has been a hub of feminine activity.The kitchen was fully occupied for hours yesterday, while all varieties of bak...

B. Does the �separation of church an...
B. Does the �separation of church and state� forbid religious displays on government property? NO. Some officials mistakenly believe that the Constitution mandates that no religious act...

#The gases are produced in a bab...
#The gases are produced in a baby\'s cot (or other sleeping environment) by the action of common household fungus on compounds of phosphorus, arsenic and antimony present in the mattress a...

First, the discoveries of the human ...
First, the discoveries of the human genome project released in early 2001 (a) confirm that the foundational assumptions of genetic engineering are overly simplistic and seriously unsound and (...

Yesterday was cold, cold,* here in P...
Yesterday was cold, cold,* here in Portland. It looked like snow, but we woke this morning to birds chirping, blue skies with patchy white clouds, and then rain on and off... ...so no snow...

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) is th...
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation�s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitution...

I read I read Colby Buzzell\'s

So Pandora\'s got classical music no...
So Pandora\'s got classical music now...SWEET!...

We have been doing so many things an...
We have been doing so many things and I have been pulled in so many directions...We had a good Thanksgiving celebration, complete with Blessed bread and a chicken instead of turkey.TSG...

Well, we made it successfully throug...
Well, we made it successfully through \"No-Buy Friday\" without spending a red cent.Except, of course, for the water, electricity, natural gas, internet service, cell service, cell-network...

In other news,\"Za\"is in th...
In other news,\"Za\"is in the scrabble dictionary.It means \"pizza.\"...

Big boys playing with bubbles......
Big boys playing with bubbles......at my Wedding....

I am a font of unbridled optimism....
I am a font of unbridled optimism.This will no doubt either be an incredibly boon or squished completely by my future career: farming.For my current career, computer consulting, this a...

Now, this is pretty creative:...
Now, this is pretty creative:...

The problem is not so much the day t...
The problem is not so much the day to day management. Really good hackers are practically self-managing. The problem is, if you\'re not a hacker, you can\'t tell who the good hackers are. A si...

SUVs are gross because they\'re the ...
SUVs are gross because they\'re the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.)...

Confused by mercury hype? Fear not. ...
Confused by mercury hype? Fear not. Mercury science continues to confirm that fish is a health food. But a host of moneyed activist groups defy reason by dishonestly complaining that \"mercury...

Okay, this required some serious mat...
Okay, this required some serious matrices math, and kept my brain rapt for about 3-4 hours today:3D Rotating Cube Demo (in F...

- having a baby- buying a hous...
- having a baby- buying a house- running my own consulting business...

TSG is at the last birth class (for ...
TSG is at the last birth class (for women), we had the last birth class for couples last night.I am at our favorite food coop, Peoples\'.Yesterday w...

Powerful jaw muscles add steam-shove...
Powerful jaw muscles add steam-shovel power to the digging apparatus. Twenty-five percent of a naked mole-rat�s muscle mass is devoted to closing the jaw, the same proportion of muscle that hu...

I just got three previews of me in 4...
I just got three previews of me in 40 years.(1)The first was an older gentlemen who was parked on our street......in a white Volvo 240 Wagon.We\'ve seen them around before, he ...

First off, I think what we are tryin...
First off, I think what we are trying to achieve through an amendment to the Constitution is to impose values on people -- that is, teach people patriotism with our definition of what patrioti...

Today, Gordon breaks his own record ...
Today, Gordon breaks his own record every time he drives, whether it\'s to Cincinnati for coffee, Rolla, Mo., for lunch or Green River, Wyo., for dinner. And now, the treasured Volvo P1800 co...

Why is the Why is the Ron Paul 2008 website down?...

Dinner at Old Town Pizza Dinner at Old Town Pizza, my fingers are bothering me from too many days of too much computing, and intensive guitar work (I decided I was going to learn a few new scales on W...

Hybrid cars are allowed to drive in ...
Hybrid cars are allowed to drive in the HOV lanes at high speeds.... where they are less efficient and more polluting than when they are \"stuck in traffic\"....

More Oregon Politics, but More Oregon Politics, but this initiative is HUGE.I haven\'t found the best way to word ...

You know, You know, you could insure a heck of a lot of people with a trust fund of 1...

Yes, believe your eyes.I have cr...
Yes, believe your eyes.I have created a front-loading bike rack for the Ol\' Silver Bullet. It is a homebrew design, made out of a pair of old handlebars (the ones that came on the origina...

I know what you are going to say....
I know what you are going to say.\"Oh, my, you hit a biker. Now what?\"But that\'s not what is going on.Take a closer look....

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So I got new glasses (brown Converse...
So I got new glasses (brown Converse All-Stars) and realized last night, that, ever since I got this new prescription (and my trial two-week contacts) I have been carefully preserving the inte...

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A veritable A veritable stable of Volvo Beauties....

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Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
These houses are completely �off the grid��they�re not connected to the utility companies. Yet the teams have to live like normal Americans. Using only power from the sun, they have to keep th...

Regarding the health care problem Ku...
Regarding the health care problem Kucinich says of the other Democratic candidates: “If you don’t have the courage to take on the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, don’t try to fo...

I really don’t like being ruled by...
I really don’t like being ruled by convention, but sometimes people misinterpret this as madness. It’s been cold here for quite a while and for the past couple of weeks we have had snow ju...

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The saucepan on the stove is full of...
The saucepan on the stove is full of home-made apple cider, cinnamon sticks, and a dash of raw sugar......it\'s fall, folks....

Here\'s a real, live incarnation of an idea I\'ve had for a long time.There\'s nada, zip, zilch on there right now, but it\'s live, it\'s operat...

The voters\' guide has put TSG to sl...
The voters\' guide has put TSG to sleep on the couch. Election Day is tomorrow, the skies are darkening, and it is nearly five o\'clock. The remnants of today\'s Asian stir fry lunch are going...

I would just like to point out that ...
I would just like to point out that outlawing incandescent lights bulbs is asinine.Whoever thought that idea up ought to be dragged off and shot.Since when does government legislate qu...

favorite moments from last night
Me: Hey, that looks like... We have a dish just like that one!Our Host: Uh, yeah... I think your BROUGHT that one....

Yeah... we are all married now.I...
Yeah... we are all married now.I\'ve got one kid on the way, the guy on the left has three kids already, and the guy in the back (who just got married in L.A.) is still on his honeymoon, s...

Here\'s my synopsis of the Oregon Sp...
Here\'s my synopsis of the Oregon Special Election for this Tuesday, November 6th:Measure 49: WTF, Salem? How about we NO this one, and see what you come up with in February? Better yet, h...

Skillful composers play with these e...
Skillful composers play with these expectations, alternately meeting and violating them in interesting ways. In my laboratory, we\'ve found that listening to a familiar song that you like acti...

Well, I got hit with some kind of vi...
Well, I got hit with some kind of viral stomach flu and slept for pretty much 36 hours. Then when I tried to get up, caffeine withdrawal hit. I can\'t wait for the weekend -- I am going to try...

If you\'re a Grateful Dead fan, If you\'re a Grateful Dead fan, Speeding Arrow.net is like unto heaven.Or so say the denizens of such....

My Wife and I, for some unfathomable...
My Wife and I, for some unfathomable reason, are always talking about the \"Hungry, Hungry Hippo,\" so this was something of ...

Went to Powell\'s the other day, and...
Went to Powell\'s the other day, and this is our new O.L.B. :...

Well this morning the MAX whisked th...
Well this morning the MAX whisked the in-laws out to the airport... It was a good visit, felt like forever since we\'d seen them.(They said they weren\'t going to visit until there were gr...

Man, I guessed we missed out on Man, I guessed we missed out on some good ol\' fashioned fun.Woweee......

Back in PDX, taking the MAX on down ...
Back in PDX, taking the MAX on down to our pad......

Well, our \"24 Hours in L.A.\" is dr...
Well, our \"24 Hours in L.A.\" is drawing to a close. While I realize that could be a pulp fiction title, it actually is just the moniker I\'ve applied to this whirlwind wedding weekend.In...

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Well, we had a real smash-up of a pa...
Well, we had a real smash-up of a party last night. The In-Laws got here in the afternoon, took a nap, and then we headed out on the town. My sister-in-law made some excuse, snuck away from di...

The thought that has been swimming a...
The thought that has been swimming around my head most, lately, concerning American politics is \"how the heck do you get a reductionist government in place?\"I mean one that begins reigni...

This afternoon was taken up with com...
This afternoon was taken up with combatting post-sushi-indulgence-sleepiness with the best in home-brewed lattes.And a big THANK YOU to all for the birthday calls that have been flooding i...

Our family has always loved butter...
Our family has always loved buttery rich crackers, so we were thrilled to create the first organic version. Its slightly sweet, toasted taste is the perfect compliment for a homemade lobste...

Today I also found out that Gelsemiu...
Today I also found out that Gelsemium is good for tension/dehydration headaches....

I just organized the icons in my doc...
I just organized the icons in my dock (yes, Mac OS X) by the colors of the rainbow.Yes, I agree with my Wife that I need to get out more.She won\'t let me do it with the bookshelves......

too much time on my hands or brain gasket blown?
You be the judge......

seat -less
So some schmuck stole the seat off my bike the other night after the Blazers game. Yes, that is one more reason to add to the ever-growing list of why the Blazers suck....

The inmate van was on our street tod...
The inmate van was on our street today -- one short, squat sherrif (with TWO firearms) directing a herd of beefy, scowling ragged and hairy inmates wielding shovels.Fun, fun.I locked t...

eyes
Well, I finally went to the optometrist again -- I was waiting for my eyes to get worse enough so that they would fit into the next stronger size of contacts.Apparently they did -- this ne...

Our stalwart winter re-filling of ou...
Our stalwart winter re-filling of our little birdfeeder has paid off dividends.There is a whole flock of little birds outside, playfully scattering the seeds out of the birdfeeder and then...

Today I started the \"bug\" for maki...
Today I started the \"bug\" for making my own Ginger Beer. Now I \"feed\" it two teaspoons of ground ginger and two teaspoons of white sugar each day for seven days and see if it takes off....

Check it out!This is Ford Doctor...
Check it out!This is Ford Doctors Diesel Technician Society\'s Mechanical Aptitude Test.Some guys on my Vol...

The woman who runs The woman who runs Zoom Baby Gear -- a little shop along Greely in NE -- is a veritable treasure trove of information.We stopped in there yesterday...

Check this beauty out!WOW!...
Check this beauty out!WOW!...

We went camping up on Mount Hood ove...
We went camping up on Mount Hood over the weekend.I would post pictures, but they are all of the film variety, so you will have to wait.After a relaxing weekend in the fresh mountain a...

snobbery
TSG and I are snobs.Not snobs in the usual way, but in particular, specific categories.For example, we are COOKWARE snobs.Only two types of cookware grace our kitchen, Griswold cas...

lattes are in...
... thanks to this lovely addition to our kitchen.The quality of the foam that this simple device generates is truly amazing....

Last night I battled large witches a...
Last night I battled large witches and their even larger minions with a giant, wooden Cross Patt�e.In other news, TSG and I made and froze 40 biscuits last night, using the new recipe -- t...

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Our quest to find a house (or a home...
Our quest to find a house (or a home) led us to two totally different properties in two days.The two houses were about the same in asking price.One is in an uber-trendy neighborhood, b...

parking day
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Everyone keeps point Everyone keeps point this guy out to us....

I am bent out of shape by 40+ hours ...
I am bent out of shape by 40+ hours of work in 4 days.The kind of logical, mental effort that is completely exhausting... where I am reduced to a barely-cogitating zombie by 3pm. Or 12pm, ...

According to legend, the archangel M...
According to legend, the archangel Michael appeared to St. Aubert, bishop of Avranches, in 708 and instructed him to build a church on the rocky islet. Aubert repeatedly ignored the angel\'s i...

BICYCLIST IN THOSE FUNNY BIKING SHOR...
BICYCLIST IN THOSE FUNNY BIKING SHORTS given protected status as a minority. A court ruled today that any type of speech, delivered in any public forum by any method -- including the internet ...

Forget about the slippery slope....
Forget about the slippery slope.Folks, we are plummeting.This is FREE FALL.No traction, no footholds, and NO TERMINAL VELOCITY....

If we had been functioning under a t...
If we had been functioning under a true and transparent free market system, we would not be in the mess we are in today. Government, like the American household, needs to live within its means...

smells like hippie
Well, TSG and I have been to TWO hippie-frequented events in the last few days:Peoples\' Coop\'s Harvest Festival, and NE\'s Alberta Arts\' Last Thursdays.Much fun (and square-dancing)...

We are in California now.It took...
We are in California now.It took us just under 4 hours to get from our door to my parents\' house, including an hour car ride from the airport on this end, and 40 minute or so train ride ...

So, basically, if I want to get anyt...
So, basically, if I want to get anything done whilst I am in front of the computer I have to stay away from blogs, opinion, and \"news\" sites.Because there is

China is a major funder of US debt, ...
China is a major funder of US debt, holding about $260bn (�149bn) in US Treasury bonds - second only to Japan....

\"This time, Beijing is offering pac...
\"This time, Beijing is offering pacific words, aimed mostly at the western countries, even as it supplies the junta with arms and ammunition,\" he said. ...

I am reminded of President Ronald Re...
I am reminded of President Ronald Reagan\'s admonition at the Vietnam War Memorial in 1988: \"Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win.\...

Over the weekend we went up to Washi...
Over the weekend we went up to Washington, where we visited our friends, the ones who are five years further down the road to achieving their life goals than we are... And we have pretty much ...

cob cottage\'s complete library
Aw, yeah......

crass commericalism
Is it really art if it\'s created to sell?Well, you don\'t have to worry about that with these pieces of beauty.Never fear, the...

So I bought an iBook G4, 800Mhz, 640...
So I bought an iBook G4, 800Mhz, 640MB RAM, 60GB, AP, Combo off of Craig\'s List for $300.I don\'t know why anybody buys new computers anymore.This thing works great for ME, the ultra-...

Are YOU Are YOU paying attention?I\'m sure many people have said this better than me, but ~~free~~ PRE-PAID healthcare is a BAD IDEA.I\'m n...

The brake lights are functional (two...
The brake lights are functional (two out of three). I don\'t know if I want to run all three bulbs in parallel because my calculations say that is 24 amps, and they used to run just fine off o...

The weekend\'s coming fast, the brak...
The weekend\'s coming fast, the brake lights still are only semi-functional, and I\'ve got seven web projects up in the air. And we are going to go visit our friends an hour into Washington to...

ceremony
I did some unceremonious but much needed and over due de-linking from the right hand side of this blog.If I deleted you and you still want to be on there, drop me a line.There\'s a bun...

close call
I walked outside and looked down the street. The parking meter enforced (on bike) was IN SIGHT.I sauntered down to the machine and plug my card in, as he pedaled past.\"What car are yo...

Phew. Only 60 more \"starred\" email...
Phew. Only 60 more \"starred\" emails to go. Crazy....

My Wife says I\'m obsessed
...but I can stand the little buggers fornicating in my kitchen.Yes, I am talking about the Return of the Fruit Fly Wars. Or Flute Fry Wars, if your tongue is twisted....

The fabulous spider who has taken up...
The fabulous spider who has taken up residency in our southern window caught a bee in its web this morning. It spent most of the day sucking it dry.I love nature....

Some people can smoke, and some can\...
Some people can smoke, and some can\'t.I am one of the latter, and this lady<...

I just responded to an emai...
I just responded to an email that I got in July.That\'s pretty bad....

My working on the car in snatches, b...
My working on the car in snatches, bits and pieces here and there continues...On the list of now working:- turn signals- reverse lights (!)- tail lightsStill not working:- ...

Things that irk me (today, in partic...
Things that irk me (today, in particular):~~People~~ THE LOWLIFE SCUM who buy concert tickets and re-sell them for a profit.I don\'t mind the ones who buy extra t...

New baby pictures New baby pictures posted....

We went to see the midwife today, an...
We went to see the midwife today, and my little baby boy kicked the ultrasound instrument as she moved it around, trying to find his heartbeat!Perhaps we\'ve conditioned this response in h...

For all those who don\'t know, this ...
For all those who don\'t know, this is my desk chair....

Equivocal Catharsis

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\"In the first place, we should insi...

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Our Bollywood party last night was a...

Well, our last week-long guest heade...

Normally I abhor single-use items. B...

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About 3 minutes in it really heats u...

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elimination communication

Dr. Paul is continuing his bid for t...

Day Two of the getting-up-at-6am-rai...

We took the baby to the Crys...

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Wow, summer is here and with a venge...

Well we hosted FastBoots Well we hosted FastBoots here for a while, he showed up the day we got back from Hawaii. Among other things, he taught me the basics of riding a fixie.Pics at his site....

It is true that the era of cheap foo...

Well we\'ve been in Hawaii for 4 day...

Even PETA takes a stab at one our fo...

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Yesterday we went to the Zipcar-host...

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Must. Make. Myself. Do. Taxes. Now.....

week seven of Fatherhood

Now here\'s an idea:scale the high...

But accountability has gone out of s...

I made a pizza (from scratch) -- our...