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While responding to a comment in my Eggs are not Dairy post, I learned that the Food Pyramid, which came along after I left school, so I never really learned it, has itself been replaced by MyPyramid, which addresses several of the shortcomings of the old Food Pyramid.
For me, MyPryamid, based on a 2200 calorie [...]

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Got to love… “The pitch! And that happened. Apparently it was an S according to the board…” and many other great moments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrrx5CgdZaA

To be fair, the English commentator is doing a direct translation of the Japanese commentator… of course with how popular Baseball is there, I have to wonder how the Japanese commentator got his job. [...]

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No, not “Scooter” Libby, but scooters as in a type of motorcycle. I remember twenty years or so ago, thinking that getting a scooter would be a cool alternative to driving a car all the time. You would save on gas, insurance and all that. I never got one obviously.
Now they are coming back in [...]

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This one works for me, as does the full list, though I don’t know enough about Hitchhiker’s Guide to comment on that one and not sure which Galatica it is talking about here. I probably would fit more on Babylon 5 than Moya, but both would be good. The way the questions were going I [...]

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I saw a car transport truck carrying two Smarts, so the Smarts must be officially here. It looks like the Columbus dealer opened on the 20th of February, not sure about the dealer in the Cleveland area. These two were headed South, so my guess is they were heading to Columbus, unless Smarts enter the [...]

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I was thinking of using Joomla! for another website that I was thinking of building, since that website wouldn’t be a full blog. Joomla! is more of a CMS, where WordPress is focused more on blogs, but works okay as a CMS. Joomla! can do blogs well enough however, and overall is more versatile than [...]

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Essential watching for anyone who doesn’t understand the threat to the Internet being raged right here in the US:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_3WnJ42kw

It is about stopping you and me from communicating with the world at large, and just like TV, Radio and mass newspapers, limiting peoples voices so only large government approved corporations have a voice.
The corporations like Comcast [...]

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For our friends and family out of state. We have a ton of snow. A ton.
I left work early Friday with my manager’s permission/encouragement due to how much snow was down and coming. I left not long after getting all my work done. Typically I would go to the warehouse and help out there, but [...]

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Remember to reset your clocks this Sunday. That is, change it before you go to bed tonight (the 8th of March).

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I noticed at work the other day that the new version Microsoft Word had some cool bibliography tools and when I got home I checked out if OpenOffice had something similar. OpenOffice is like Microsoft Office, nearly as powerful and full featured, but free. For 99.99% of users out there, OpenOffice will fit their needs. [...]

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This image I pulled from the auction’s website (Skipco), I’ll post a picture sometime after we get it Monday.

It is a 1998 Dodge Caravan. 134,000 miles.

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Sara and I have been married 6 years now.
We celebrated today with a dinner at Mustard Seed Market, where after dinner I got some Mead. We stopped at Borders for a short while and now we are home. Tomorrow we go to the auto auction to try and get a newer car…

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A bit late, but Merry Imbolg… Candlemass under it’s Christianized name…

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I saw a report that said that Antidepressants may not be as effective as popularly thought. Worse, the studies that prove certain drugs are ineffective are very seldom published in medical journals and literature. This is above and beyond the known side effects of antidepressants, such as them actually increasing the suicide rate among teens, [...]

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Our monitor died the other day. Thank God for Freecycle, where we were able to get a new monitor for free… well, new to us. I wasn’t looking forward to having to shell out $240 or so for an LCD screen since LCDs, especially cheap ones are not very good for gaming, beyond the fact [...]

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Check out this video of some Kea’s doing really amazing stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRW4ztbY8Ok

Apparently Kea’s are among the smartest birds out there and cause havoc with cars in car parks in New Zealand’s ski areas. Kea’s are a non-speaking parrot.

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What is up with Diesel prices here? It is a good $0.50 more expensive then regular gas. I thought it was supposed to be cheaper normally… Of course a diesel car is probably still cheaper over the long term, but still…
EDIT: While we’re at it. Where is the Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel? Most of the [...]

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Among the Christmas Presents we got this year was a telescope (a present from Santa for the family). Nothing fancy, but should be functional enough for now, especially for Ari. While we were out Christmas night trying to see something, Sara started asking “what’s that?!” Eventually I looked away from the telescope to try and [...]

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Merry Christmas Eve, and in the event I don’t login to say it, Merry Christmas itself… and playing the move to New Zealand fantasy out, happy Boxing Day as well on the 26th…

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In a sad day for the Constitution, Congress passed a bill supported by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Rifle Association… Just a reminder of the Brady Campaign’s goal according to Sara Brady herself:
Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It [...]

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