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backfire

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Here’s a phrase I bet you’ve never said: “I hit myself in the face with a crowbar while opening my sunroof.” I, however, have. While trying to leverage my sunroof open as mentioned in my last post, the crowbar itself staged a coup and turned on me, swinging around and striking a swift blow right [...]

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Tales From the Carypt

Friday, July 9th, 2010

I’ve blogged before about the love/hate relationship I have with the 97 Saturn I drive. But I think I reached a new plateau today.
The ol’ Saturn came from the factory just 14 short years ago equipped with an electric sunroof. Somewhere between then and when it came into my possession, the sunroof was the victim [...]

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Microwave

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Somewhere along the way, the product engineers at Emerson’s microwave division lost their way. I say this as the unfortunate victim of the user interface of one of their home microwaves.

In recent years, I’ve seen the addition of a neat little feature on microwaves: the “Quick Start” buttons, which can start your food heating for [...]

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nashville flooding

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

This past weekend, the Nashville/middle TN area had record rains and record flooding. Rivers overflowed, houses were destroyed, damage estimated in the billions occurred. All this you can get from the news. But something gets lost when you are viewing the mass devastation on TV. Something that I was only able to start to comprehend [...]

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armed

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

This week, I purchased my first firearm. This didn’t happen without a lengthy discussion with my wife about the benefits and risks of having a gun in the house where we raise our child. Both of our parents had guns in the house as we were growing up, and it was tremendously clear to us [...]

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