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Green Mountain French Vanilla

Green Mountain French Vanilla

Good flavoring, a little weak on the coffee side.

Emeril’s Big Easy Bold

Emeril’s Big Easy Bold

Strong, dark, bold. If you like darker roasts, which I do, this is pretty good.

Keurig in the house

Keurig in the house

I’m bringing my remaining Tassimo stuff to work. Will share k-cup reviews as we go. UPDATE: love the machine so far. It’s very quiet and the auto on feature was nice to wake up and have it ready to brew. [...]

Ride on

Just picked up my bike from its 5,000 mile service. Not a bad bit of riding for the first year! Riding back from the shop I realized another reason I’m glad I have a full face helmet: it conceals the [...]

Gunnar glasses initial review

Having only a slight astigmatism in one eye means I don’t need glasses all the time but I do get eye strain from focusing on anything. I decided to give a pair of Gunnar glasses a try and see what [...]

Running Ubuntu 10.10 on a Toshiba Satellite T215d-S1140

Booting Ubuntu 10.10 on a Toshiba Satellite T215d-S1140 wasn’t working real well off a USB drive until I found the right combination of options. Here’s the trick: Boot off of USB with your install image (press F12) to choose the [...]

Hello from iPhone

Testing blogging from my phone using blogwriter.

Help me understand

“Help me understand…” – I HATE that phrase. It’s a plea for someone else to be responsible for your ability to comprehend. That’s not my problem to solve. Try “explain to me” instead. I can explain something all day long. [...]

Check Engine Light, OBDII driving cycles, and more than I cared to know about all of it

So, just as one of our cars was due for registration renewal and inspection, the check engine light on it came on. We took it into the shop and had some valve, the AC system, and a couple other things [...]

Cold Turkey

I quit Facebook this weekend and I left Twitter a few months ago. I quit Facebook once before by deleting my account but I found that I still wanted to be able for friends and family to see photos and [...]