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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Link: America’s love affair with the car more of a forced marriage?
No Impact Man has a good post, which includes the above-mentioned article as well as some other observations. There is a lot of good discussion in the comments as well. We’d heard about the GM antitrust prosecution before, in The End of Suburbia. GM was also responsible for killing the EV-1 electric car. The auto [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Rants by Chris
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Last One Out is a Rotten Egg
This story is in memory of Lilly, who passed away at the ripe old age of 15 a few years back. We still think of her whenever we see rubber rat Halloween toys…
Sometimes even bad situations have their amusing side. A good example of this would be the time our house was broken into and [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Dogs, Lilly by Chris
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
This is going to give me nightmares
No Comments » - Posted in Cats, Found on the Web by Chris
Friday, November 14th, 2008
And since I’m already posting bizarre cat videos…
…here’s another one, for those who might have missed it linked in our comments recently.
No Comments » - Posted in Cats, Found on the Web, Funny by Chris
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Video: Slinky cat
Joy found this on Stuff on my cat. You can always tell it’s Friday when links like this start showing up in my instant messenger.
4 Comments » - Posted in Cats, Found on the Web, Funny by Chris
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Doing the math
We have been watching the economic situation progress for some time now, trying to determine what would be our best steps for the future; we weren’t sure whether we should consider another relocation, or whether we should settle in here — and if the latter, whether to keep renting or try to buy. My getting [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Day-to-day ramblings by Chris
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Parchment of Evil
We’ve made a few recipes lately that called for (ideally) parchment paper or (less ideally) a greased and floured pan. Since the latter turned out to be horrifically messy, we decided to try the parchment paper. I was in Earth Fare today picking up a few things for another recipe and was pleased to find [...]
