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Yep, I carved that one myself. Shauna did one too.

Filed under: Pictures, Tender Lumplings on October 30th, 2006 | 10 Comments »

It took a lot of research to come up with some selections for our county offices. Many of these offices get overlooked for the more exciting and glamorous federal or state races. I believe, though, that these choices will have a more profound effect on our day-to-day lives.

Filed under: Politics on October 30th, 2006 | No Comments »

The fine folks at IPac linked to a service by the Washington Post that allows you to track the votes of each of your representatives in the US House and Senate. Even better, you can subscribe to an RSS feed that lets you get real-time updates of their voting records as they happen. […]

Filed under: Geek, Politics on October 29th, 2006 | 1 Comment »

I took the time to evaluate the candidates and I've made my decisions on all state and federal offices on my ballot. This includes US Senate, US House 2, State House 48, and State Senate 9.

Filed under: Politics on October 26th, 2006 | 4 Comments »

I'm sitting here at my desk munching on a granola bar. This, however, is no ordinary granola bar. It's a honey almond flax bar by the fine folks at Kashi. I've gotten addicted to their 7-grain goodness. The granola bars? Awesome. The breakfast cereal? Awesome. The frozen dinners? (Yes, they make them. We found six […]

Filed under: Health, Food on October 26th, 2006 | 7 Comments »

Something is amiss in Eagle Mountain. In the last 10 years, they've burned through eight mayors, none of them ever having served a full term. The latest one to be out of the office is now being criminally charged with misuse of public funds. What's going on over there? It's like they're trying to beat […]

Filed under: Politics on October 25th, 2006 | 4 Comments »

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 the other day. Since I'm required to use it for some of our programs at work, I went ahead and upgraded to the latest version. Needless to say, I'm totally unimpressed.

Filed under: Geek, Rants on October 25th, 2006 | 8 Comments »

Have you ever read through the nonsense that accompanies your spam messages? I find it highly entertaining. This one was a good one:
Now and then, a briar patch goes deep sea fishing with a nation from a rattlesnake. Any oil filter can compete with some scythe, but it takes a real pit viper to ridiculously […]

Filed under: Tender Lumplings on October 25th, 2006 | 7 Comments »

This will be the first in a series of posts to tell you who or what I'm voting for and why. Today, I start with the ballot questions.

Filed under: Politics on October 23rd, 2006 | 1 Comment »

Okay, I'll admit it: I love the toys that Google puts out. I use GMail for all of my personal e-mail, I schedule appointments with Calendar, and I use a bunch of their plug-ins for Firefox to pimp it out. Now I'm going to share with you all of the goodies you should be […]

Filed under: Geek on October 23rd, 2006 | 4 Comments »