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Anyone who has talked to me about food or cooking for even a minute has probably heard me go on and on about how great Mark Bittman and his How to Cook Everything cookbook are.  Bittman publishes a weekly article called ‘The Minimalist’, as well as a blog, both on the New York Times site.  Whatever [...]

Following up on my last post from way back in March, I continue this highly original theme with this offering:
3.  Songs with police sirens in them — Man, this one is especially bad in songs that you haven’t heard before.  Talk about having your heart just drop out of your chest as you look up [...]

In my last post I mentioned I made a list of all the software I would need to reinstall with my fresh Windows install.  Well, here it is.  Remember that this is my work computer…  so I have a lot of programming tools and what not.  But of course I have way more “fun” stuff [...]

I reformatted my work computer and reinstalled Windows XP this week since it was really running like a dog.  It’s one of those things I really dread because I’m always worried I’ll forget to back something up and it will be gone forever.  But I guess I’ve done it enough times now that I have a good [...]

This is from the encore showing of the Euro 2008 Portugal v Turkey match on ESPN2HD, which I recorded because I don’t get ESPN Classic where the game originally aired.  I purposely avoided checking scores online this morning so I could enjoy the game.  ESPN, though, decided it was OK to show the final score on the ticker only :26 [...]