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So I get this phone call. A recorded voice offers me a free cruise in return for taking their survey. I'm always happy to take a survey, so I take...
The world really does need more Mark Crislip. Crislip produces Quackcast, a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred, podcast debunking every sort of medical...
The nut jobs are making a big deal out of today's date, 11/11/2011, which of course they like to write as 11/11/11. Never mind that our calendar...
When asked whether we could infer anything about the mind of god by observing his creation, J.B.S. Haldane, a scientist who is not as well known...
This suggestion came from the people who sell Bookup, a chess education program that I don't have, but I'm on their mailing list from way back in...
This is old news, almost a year old, and he's actually broken this record since then. I think his record is now 105 meters. But I ran across this...
These videos come from my favorite place in the world, the Durrand Glacier chalet near Revelstoke, British Columbia. Except that I only go there...
World's population reaches seven billion, celebrated symbolically. Danica May Camacho, born in a crowded public hospital, was welcomed with a...
It's really easy. Cut it in half and remove the seeds. Put it cut side down in an oven-proof baking dish and add maybe half an inch of water so...
After gwmort suggested visiting a Chevy dealership I decided to do just that today. Originally I just said that I was curious to see the Volt. I...
In June of 2008 I bought a 2003 Porsche 911 Carrera and contracted with a guy in Florida to convert it to electric. He botched the job. Then I got...
I was a sedentary kid. Being lousy at sports (weak, uncoordinated) I was treated by other kids with the cruelty typical of children, and developed...
I've been using Thunderbird ever since I started using Firefox, longer ago than I can remember. Basically, I just figured if I was using Mozilla's...
I was in MapQuest, playing with a route, moving it around, etc. When suddenly my hard drive started running more than normal, more or less...
Matthew Ball, who goes by the stage name of The Boogie Woogie Kid, is one of my favorites outside of Baroque music. Boogie Woogie is not as...
I just got home after my 5th or 6th trip (I forget exactly) to Bimini Island in The Bahamas (half an hour's small plane ride from Ft. Lauderdale)...
It's about three inches long. A little toy Leaf with its own tiny charging station, all mounted in a plastic display case. The package was waiting...
First off, let me say I'd have bought a Leaf, in spite of everything below, if Nissan hadn't screwed with me so much. (Long story I won't go into...
I finally got tired of waiting for Nissan (six months after they promised delivery of the first 4,700 Leafs, and six weeks after they told me mine...
Now that Nissan is totally screwing early Leaf order-placers, treating us like mushrooms, giving me a July delivery estimate, which is six months...
