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 Ditching the water bed - 2/8/2010

Possibly one of the last holdouts, we finally made the decision to replace our circa 1970 water bed with a Tempur-Pedic ® mattress and bed.

While bed delivery people routinely dispose of old mattresses, they want nothing to do with dis-assembly of water beds. So this task was on us. Let me rephrase: with Kristin out of town, the task was on me. ...


 Everyone hates spammers; But I've got my eye on you - 11/20/2009

I've used a process for a while now, where I give a unique email address to every company with which I do business. (Email providers like Gmail make this relatively easy.) Normally, it just helps me sort my incoming messages. With any modern email program, it's fairly straight-forward to automatically filter messages that match certain crite...


 Sleep Habits of Infant Mammals - 9/22/2009
After about a year and a half of research, I've come to a few conclusions about the sleep habits of infant mammals. Specifically, they have an innate ability to coordinate the duration of their own sleep cycles with ambient phenomenon, specifically:
  • The REM cycle of the typical adult (just when you're really sleeping soundly, it will be interru...

 Random Thoughts of the Day - 8/20/2009
I recently received this email forward, and figured plajorized content was better than no new content! Some of these remind me of Aaron Karo's Ruminations.
  1. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
  2. The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will nev...

 Spectrum of Shoe Hatred - 10/23/2008
I understand that women wear shoes for a variety of reasons. The obligatory foot protection/warmth aside, they can add to an outfit. There are, however, a number of mistakes that women make when choosing footwear. I've taken the time to create the following graphic to assist the fairer sex in their selection:


(If you cannot see the above im...

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