Bicycle Commuting, new year, old bike?

Last year, I commuted on a lovely Raleigh Venture.  Yes, it is like riding a living room.  The squishy seat is a beauty to behold.  You are fully upright and fully content.  However, for commuting with passenger and gear, it turns out to not be the ideal idea.  It worked, no doubt.  But it did [...]

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Bloghopping

Bloghopping (where you start at one blog, follow a link to another, and so on) can take you to some funny places. Today I visited:
Line Upon Line: which has very pretty cards with unusual ways of saying things like:

“Congrats on adding to your eternal glory.” (for a baby)
“I voted for you for [...]

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You might enjoy: Let me Google that for you

For all those times when someone asks you to look it up and the answer is a simple Google query:
let me Google that for you
It gives you an easily emailed link to Google results for a particular search.  Slightly snarky, yes.  But so worth it.

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If it looks like a duck…

I know that the NTSB and FAA are simply doing their jobs in their typical thorough manner that I appreciate.  Something about having to send off the organic material for DNA analysis is very amusing.  What are the alternates to bird strike? A hitchhiking mouse family? A woodchuck-chucker?  Pigs in Space?
The National Transportation Safety Board [...]

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Onion v. Apple

Onion wins.  It’s a video worth watching.  Make note of the expected release date.
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

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