No. More. Snow.

Here we go again.  Sigh.  About three months ago I was saying something about this winter having “delusions of grandeur.”  Since then we have had a winter unlike any we have had for a while and people’s patience is wearing thin.  Not that there’s much we can do about it.  Things we can do?  Burn [...]

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More Cabin Fever

Proof that cabin fever is reaching epidemic proportions: Mark Bittman featuring a tomato as “guest host, good friend and colleague” for his segment as “The Minimalist” on roasted tomato soup.
Talking to, and speaking as the voice of Mr. Tomato Face?  Clearly evidence this interminable winter has taken its toll.  Now I don’t feel so bad about [...]

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Sense and Sensibility

Chalk one up for common sense.  When it comes to improving fuel efficiency in the face of rising oil prices, increasing global demand, and (likely) decreasing supply the emphasis has been on technology, particularly in the form of hybrids.  With all the major automakers are getting into the hybrid game, too much of the focus [...]

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Cabin Fever

Gotta go.  Gotta be on the move.  I can’t take this winter much longer, but it really doesn’t give me any choice.
Last year I was able to ride in every month except January - and that was only because I decided I had too much to do around the house on a rare January thaw [...]

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Car Shopping

Would it be too cliché to say I hate car shopping?  Yes.  Not only that, it wouldn’t be entirely true.
Doing the research is interesting, but I don’t mess around with a lot of the typical negotiating, let-me-go-talk-to-my-manager BS.  The last three times we’ve bought a ‘new’ car it’s been a used car.  One advantage to buying [...]

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Why?

Why does this keep happening?
Last week, or the week before - it’s easy to lose track, it was the city council meeting in Kirwood, Missouri.  Today it was Northern Illinois University.  Just the other day it was a shopping mall in Omaha, or Virginia Tech, or Columbine, etc., etc.
Yes, it’s a rhetorical question.

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Say It Ain’t So, Roger

“Someone isn’t telling the truth,”  Representative Henry Waxman (D-California) said of the conflicting testimony from Brian McNamee and Roger Clemens.  McNamee and Clemens appeared today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.  In the Mitchell Report on the use of steroids and other performance enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball, McNamee claims to [...]

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Alton F-650 XUV: For those who think HUMMERs are meek

Combine a Ford F-650 work truck with the body of an Excursion and the interior of a Circuit City, and you get the Alton F-650. There’s conspicuous consumption, and then there’s this. See my first post about this below.
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Have We Learned Nothing?

Okay, before the shouting starts, I recognize that the vehicle featured in this post is more of a design exercise than anything, and show cars don’t always translate into the showroom, BUT, the fact that this thing was even allowed to leave the drawing board is jaw-dropping enough:

Based on a Ford Super Duty truck, the [...]

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The Smell of Memory

Recent posts Memory Refill and Another Cup in Judith Warner’s New York Times blog “Domestic Disturbances” speak of the connections between smell and memory, and our connections with time, place, and people.  Though her post was centered mainly around coffee and the way it served (serves) as a mechanism for bringing people together, I was particularly struck [...]

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