I should have known I was in for it when the baby greeted me this morning with "uh-oh." "What’s uh-oh?" "Uh-oh." When your diaper comes off under your pajamas, that’s uh-oh. So I put him in the tub. Turns out there was more uh-oh coming. I know there was a Dirty Job show about how […]
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I saw this on Eric de Place’s blog and although not immediately intuitive, he’s right: You save more fuel switching from a 15 to 18 mpg car than switching from a 50 to 100 mpg car. Driving 20,000 miles 15 mpg 18 mpg 50 mpg 100 mpg 1333 gallons 1111 gallons 400 gallons 200 gallons
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If you follow my pictures on Flickr, you know that I’m a bit sporadic about uploading them. I just uploaded a bunch today with Flickr’s new Uploadr 3.0 and it worked great! Much, much better than the old one. Faster. Faster. You can edit titles before you upload. You can edit the tags and privacy
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A tech support guy gave me a quick and easy tip to make your computer faster: Remove all the icons on your desktop. Each time you start your computer – or any application – Windows reads all the icons on your desktop. If you have a lot of icons, that takes a long time. All
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There’s an interesting blog post over on freemoneyfinance that is asking two serious financial questions: How much did you get for an allowance as a kid? How much did the tooth fairy leave you? I answered: I got $1/week allowance starting around first grade and $1/tooth from the tooth fairy. My seven year old stepson
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For all of you that tried to click through on the book link to see what it was all about, I fixed the link. Here it is: Good Calories, Bad Calories. (For those of you that didn’t read the previous post and have no idea what I’m talking about: Frank and I are eating less
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I had a salad for lunch. I would dare to bet that none of you have ever seen me eat a salad at a restaurant … because this is the first time I think I’ve ever ordered a salad at a restaurant. It wasn’t too bad … especially with the Red Ale to go with
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John Scalzi, the author of Old Man’s War, pointed me at Nick Mamata‘s story of talking about his book Under My Roof to a bunch of freshman. It’s quite funny. The listeners seemed to think that his book would corrupt people: Explicitly, I was asked several times if I didn’t think that a kid might
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Have you noticed lately, that shirts don’t often meet pants? So there’s a gap in between? Well, now there’s a solution, hip-T. It’s a really short tube top that you wear under your shirt, over your jeans. I guess the hip-t might be a handy thing to have (I switched the shirt I was going
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About the ads and anything else you might find annoying on this website … As you’ve probably noticed, I use this website to play around with things. If you love or hate anything in particular, let me know! If anything interferes in your reading, definitely let me know!
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