If you've missed the articles buzzing around, here's the quick sum up: Food manufactures want to be able to title foods that have all their natural fats and sweeteners swapped out for cheaper substitutes and padded with artificial flavors to be titled the same as the real natural food.  Cheeze-Wiz would be "cheese" and Tootsie Rolls would be " ( Read more... )

I am guessing there are at least a couple squeeling Last Unicorn Fans on this list (the movie was a geek child of the 80's must as far as I can tell). Thanks to the info from my friend's
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Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden in reference to 2008 presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama ( Read more... )

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Briefly crawling out from under the rock to tell you that I am moved in and alive and well. The move was a little less smooth than desired, but over all not bad. After a lot of TLC, the place is coming together very nicely and I can't wait to start having people over (but not yet!!). Ross moves in today, so I'll likely be back under the rock the ( Read more... )

Hey everyone!   I just posted my apartment on Craig's List.  I'm already getting inquiries (3 in 2 hrs, YAY), but I am renting my condo starting Oct. 1st and would love to rent it to someone my friends and family can vouch for.  It my first property, so I love it like a child and want to find someone that will take good care of it.  Feel free to ( Read more... )

Here is a great analysis on the whole sorted tale.  Very good at explaining things from both sides and how very messy this whole thing is getting.  Even if you didn't agree with my thoughts the other day, read this as it is more of analysis on how this happened not how to stop it in the future.  I'm still convinced there has to be a better way to ( Read more... )

My sweetie sent me this article on the Israel - Lebanon conflict that got me thinking.  I wanted to document my thoughts somewhere, so feel free to skip this if you have no interest in my political ramblings.

So here is the article: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/07/24/blame_the_terrorists_not_israel/?p1= ( Read more... )

So we went to see Superman at the Imax this week.  Cinematography was great. Cool use of special effects (the gun shot eye was tre-cute).  However the plot had holes the size of Kansas.  Since when have the crystals from Superman's family become gremlin continent builders?  Should we not feed them after midnight if we don't want crappy continents ( Read more... )