Five Guys rocks!

Leaving Best Buy the other day I noticed a new burger joint called “Five Guys” was opening up – how exciting. My friend Jason beat me to the punch and ate there at least twice before I got around to telling Erin about it and of course we were instantly out the door and headed […]

Torus is better then Tetris!

While doing some research on a new evolution of programming called HTML5, I stumbled across a really addictive game. It is a 3D twist on the classic Tetris: http://www.benjoffe.com/code/games/torus/ Remember when you find yourself playing for an hour and not working – I warned you!

CAKE is coming! CAKE is coming!

About two years ago I signed up for the alt rock band Cake’s email newsletter hoping that someday they would actually play a Midwest show. Well this morning I opened their email update and there it was: July 11 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue Tickets went on sale at 10am this morning and I […]

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial weekend has become the one and only time each year that we host a big blowout. Friends and family come from all over to just relax and enjoy. Half the day is lots of kids running around in the sun enjoying sprinklers and slip-n-slides, while the adults sit in the shade eating burgers and […]

What if I had bought Apple stock instead?

NPR was talking about this blog post where the writer shows how much he would have profited if he had bought Apple stock instead of their products over the years, it’s brilliant. However, the whole time I was listening to the story I was kicking myself knowing that I had been buying Microsoft stock all […]

Honesty is the best customer service

Our furnace went out on us and its been an interesting adventure getting heat back in our house. We clearly hired the wrong company  – GIbson’s Heating and Plumbing. While all three guys they sent to our house were nice and professional, we never felt like we were being told the whole story and were […]

Lady Gaga = Boy George?

Two of my favorite things…

Fascinating facts about toilets

The film “Psycho” was the first movie to show a toilet flushing – the scene caused an inpouring of complaints about indecency. Over $100,000 US dollars was spent on a study to determine whether most people put their toilet paper on the holder with the flap in front or behind; the answer: three out of […]

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