Here we go again, people… I don’t know if I’ve been living under a rock or something and this is old news to everyone, but it’s new to me. I’ve recently gotten into performance underwear. This is mainly because I’m tired of being either frozen or super-sweaty on my bike in the [...]

When it comes to operating costs, industry likes business as usual. Take an industry that I’m a little too familiar with, health insurance. When you’re dealing with mass quantities of people, you can predict how many people are going to have kidney failure, or how many people will end up with diabetes, or [...]

There was a map illustrating the increase in Food Stamp usage this year on the front page of the New York Times today. Food Stamp usage in Columbia County, where I’m from, is up 36% since 2007. Across the country the numbers are staggering.
Reading this story brought to mind a road trip I [...]

It’s only been two days since I officially finished for the semester, so I haven’t had much chance to read up on any of my favorite goings-ons, but I was able to do plenty of thinking and picture taking during my daily treks through downtown Brooklyn on my way to Pratt.
So, we’ve got this whole [...]

I don’t really want to say anything about the plot or the final episode, or any of the other minutea that I’m sure is being discussed on the internetz regarding the intricacies of the plot/characters.  The BSG team gave us four great seasons full of people and events that elicited honest emotional responses from the [...]

Yes, the whole mortgage-backed securities thing ended up not working out. But what if we buy up all the foreclosed homes and package them together as securities instead. No need to thank me, this idea is free of charge.
But seriously, investors buying up hundreds or thousands of Detroit homes in one fell swoop? [...]

We’re back in business!!
Brake: Tightened.Rusty Chain: Replaced.Dangerous sounding rattle coming from intersection of fork and frame: Still there, apparently.  Guess it’s not so dangerous…
Forgot how great it is to have a bike that stops on a dime and pedals like its chain was dipped in butter…  Rain and snow in the forecast for Monday, though.  [...]

I read in Wired today that the current Big Brother bill in congress, which would keep a two year log of everything we do on the internet, is being pushed through under the guise of helping us combat child pornography.  Don’t believe me?  Look at the acronym.  As we all know, the purpose of a [...]

A while back, I posted on the growing concern I had with the long-term viability of hybrid cars, based on all the fancy doo-dads under the hood, contrasted with the budgets of the usual people who buy eight to ten year old cars.  And it seems that Toyota employee Jon F. Thomson, in answering a [...]

Sitting my own little slice of heaven on board this MD-80, I’m still dwelling on an event that happened earlier today. Maybe this is an indicator of how little I fly (or how I usually fly), but I had to check a bag today (due to the TSA’s fear of syrup in large quantities), [...]