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  • Epicurean Delight: Burger King Onion Rings

    A few weeks ago Alex posted a picture on his Facebook page from the vending machine at work. I laughed out loud because the same item showed up in our vending machine as well: Burger King Onion Rings (Flavored Snacks)

  • The myth of cheap food

    Along the lines of a couple of books by Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food & The Omnivore\’s Dilemma) that I\’ve been reading lately, here is a opinion article from the Strib that caught my eye. The myth of cheap food.

  • Wiki Degrees of Kevin Bacon

    As I was checking something out on Wikipedia today I had a random thought about the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Could I get to Kevin Bacon on Wikipedia from the page I was currently on? Let\’s find out.

  • Reflections on Terminator Salvation

    WARNING: Spoilers ahead. Turn back if you do not want to know plotlines (or holes in plotlines) from Terminator Salvation. You have been warned.

  • Site Re-Design

    Greetings. I\’m sure it\’s obvious by now that we\’re abandoning the site re-design from earlier this year[1. Read: Alex tried to fix what wasn\’t broken, and it just didn\’t go as planned. These things happen.], and are going to stick with this old favorite version. There will be some tweaks added, certainly, but for now…

  • Better Times Ahead?

    So I was reading an article in the Strib today about a murder in Minneapolis\’ north side. Generally reading about a murder doesn\’t signify good times, except when I caught that it was the city\’s 5th homicide of the year. Only the 5th? This time last year? Sixteen. Crime tends to trend with bad times……

  • Twins Apologists

    Actually, I should actually open that title up and call it \”Minnesota Sports Franchise Apologists on Startribune.com\”. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is I was reading a recap of a Twins chat with Joe C in today\’s Strib, and he started getting a little snippy with some of the comments. I\’ve seen the…

  • Click-it or Ticket

    Minnesota was the latest state to implement a law that allows police officers to pull you over for not wearing your seatbelt. This may seem odd to some as there has been a seatbelt law on the books for several years now.

  • Vote wadE in 2012

    I hereby announce my intent to form a committee to investigate the feasibility of my candidacy for the office of President of the United States of America in 2012.

  • Moore\’s Law

    Interesting post in the Times\’ technology blog today about the rate at which our technology devices keep getting faster, or increasing their capacity, while physically shrinking. I particularly like this paragraph: \”Let’s stop for a second to take stock of the wonder of all this. The last flash memory card I bought for my camera…

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