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Since I haven’t done one of these in a while… If it takes more than two attempts to back your car into a parking space, maybe back-in parking is not for you. If it takes more than one attempt to drive a car into a nose-in parking space, maybe driving is not for you. If [...]
Barry, one of the two people I share an office with, returned from a trip to the kitchen and expressed this quietly brilliant nugget of wisdom: I just realized this place is like a casino: There are no clocks, it’s hard to find the exits, the drinks are free, and if you stay here long [...]
Okay, so this is probably fundamentally old news to just about everyone, and I’d bet my left… upper incisor that it’s been covered ad nauseam before, but I just noticed “Sara Lee’s” slogan on a truck the other day. Like a lot of people (according to the relevant Wikipedia entry), I’d always thought the slogan [...]
[Obligatory Paraphrased Movie Dialog Post] Â My version of a bit from “Full Metal Jacket” (and the Rifleman’s Creed): “This is my Kindle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” Yes, I finally got me one of these bad boys and, while it’s not perfect, I think I’m going to like it.
Driving on a two-lane road this morning, I notice a minivan in the oncoming lane with a dog out the window. Okay, yes, I get the whole “puppy in the wind” mentality behind why people allow this, but this dog (a medium-sized breed of some sort) was in the front passenger seat, with the window [...]