America's 59 Best Meals
Did your favorite local food make the cut? From Chicago hot dogs to New Orleans jambalaya and 57 other regional legends, these dishes will have your taste buds begging for a road trip.
Towels for Everyone
I like towels. Soft ones. Big ones. Ones that you can wrap yourself in. Ones that you use to wipe your car off, that don't leave lint. Ones that keep you warm. Ones that your grandma knitted a cool loop on so you can hang your towel from a kitchen drawer.
My grandma was so cool. She liked towels, too.
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Fact: Half of gun deaths are suicides
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens’ ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But research shows that surprisingly often, gun owners…
Don't Want To Be A US Citizen? Be Prepared to Owe Big Bucks!
Congress just passed a new law that will stop your capital — or at least a good portion of it — at the border, should you decide not to be a U.S. citizen anymore. Is it, perhaps, in preparation for…
Taste of Talking - Salt & Pepper Shaker
Henk Stallinga’s ‘Taste of Talking’ salt and pepper shakers are conceptually a little on the strange side combining the mouth and ear parts of old bakelite telephone handsets with blinker…
bell:
The other night the World News cited a Moody’s Economy.com study that showed where the surge in the price of a barrel of oil actually comes from. Moody’s projects that if prices were based solely on supply and demand, a barrel of oil would cost only $75.
$30 is tacked on due to speculators, that is oil futures traders. They’re long oil, buying futures contracts with speculations that prices will continue to rise.
An additional $20 is caused by the weak dollar. Since crude oil is priced in dollars, as the dollar depreciates, higher prices are necessary to maintain a supply and demand balance. Since the dollar has depreciated about 10% in the last year, it buys about 10% less oil than it did a year ago.
The final $10 is attributed to what is called a risk premium — that is the apprehension in the marketplace that deliveries of oil supplies may be disrupted. This happens for a number of geopolitical reasons such as strikes in Nigeria or deterioration in Iraq. Sellers, therefore, demand a premium on current deliveries or hoard oil for future sales.
And there you have $135 barrels of oil. I thought it was interesting, though rather speculative itself.
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Well, that was easy.
Just beat Guitar Hero Aerosmith on hard in about 3 hours. Um, this band must suck and write easy songs.
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Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
— Confucius
I enjoy this new gauge for fame. On a semi-related sidenote, Google Street View is the creepiest thing ever. (via)I noticed that I was home when the Google car drove by my house. Dunno, if I’m famous, but I should put one of these things in my front yard.
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I simply can't stand printers.
That and wireless networks. The voodoo required to get each of them running is simply through the roof.
I need to print some artwork on a set of CDs quickly for a work project. Since I frown quite heavily on the label approach (sticks in my car stereo, sticks in my slot loading Macintosh computers, scares the living hell out of me that that the label or toner will come off in flecks inside the machine) I opted to find a printer — quickly and cheaply — that could print on CDs.
It led me to HP’s All-in-One C5280. The concept is there, and the printer actually hooked up wonderfully to my Macintosh, contrary to some stories I read about online. The hickup all came after I’d printed a sheet of paper from my Mac and after I’d successfully scanned a document to my Mac.
When I placed the tray, with writable CD that came with the printer, into the slot provided by the printer, the little not-so-informative screen kept playing the video telling me to Load CD/DVD Tray, showing me a animation of how to do this.
I kept trying. Read the instructions. Lined the lines up on the tray with the lines on the printer. Pressed OK. Lots of stuff. Nothing worked.
Called HP support. After much time, several downloads to my Mac, the support person also thought it was a hardware problem. Told me they’d replace my printer. I told her I’d just take it back to Best Buy.
Next day, took it back to Best Buy. Odd, the person at customer service told me to take the printer to the Geek Squad guys to have them look at it in case they wanted to repair it. I told the person at customer service “I don’t care if you want to repair it. I want to return it.”
At Geek Squad, the geek flipped through the open box. Looked at the manuals. Didn’t bother to see if the printer ink that would be related to the open packages in the box was actually in the printer. Must remember this. Perhaps that’s a great way to get some free printer ink!
Back at customer service. Printer returned.
I’m going to go the route of the labels.
Why is it that printers and wireless networks are so difficult to get rolling?
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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
— Albert Einstein
WALL-E
I was going to write a review for WALL-E, maybe still will. But when posting the article, I found this:
“It’s hard to describe exactly why WALL-E is such a great film. First off, it’s just plain gorgeous. By far Pixar’s best visual work, not only design and texture and realism, but also direction. There are moments of WALL-E that are nearly beyond photorealistic, in the sense that they look better than you could imagine real life would.
On top of that, Pixar absolutely nailed expression and communication using characters who, basically, CANNOT SPEAK. A majority of the film is spent without speaking roles and it plays just plain perfectly.
It’s awe-inspiring and touching and genuine and amazing. Even if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t usually go for animated or CG films, you’d be a fool not to see WALL-E. Not only is it probably the best film made this year, it’s an instant classic and one of the best films made in recent history.”
It’s perfect. So is WALL-E.
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The magic of low-hanging fruit
Imagine that half the cars in the US get 10 miles per gallon. And half get 40 miles per gallon. Further stipulate that all cars are driven the same number of miles per year.
Now, you get one wish….
Zoë, Grandpa & Chuck
A visit from Zoë earlier this year found us heading to Toledo to say hello to her great grandpa and great uncle Chuck. Was a quick visit, but a good one. We need to get up there more.
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Ross Graham is a graphic designer, photographer, Wii-enthusiast, music lover, wistful runner, lawn cutter, former bookseller, who likes to drive in his car. If you need something designed, produced, edited or just commented on ... well, then let me know. I'll give it a go.
