With a tall pile of empty cardboard boxes after a household shopping spree, I decided to manifest a little creativity.

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Prologue

There are times in life when you get the lightest taste of something, and you know it's important. You see a person and you know your fates are intertwined. You see a place from afar and you know that someday you'll be there.

This particular story begins nearly six years ago. In January of 2008, my employer sent a handful of us to the ( Read more... )

I’ve been talking about this project for maybe a year, and I finally got to it. I made a batch of ice cream where I replaced the normal amount of sugar with an equal amount of Pixy Stix candy.

Just think about the genius of that: Pixy Stix are pretty ( Read more... )

Those of you who have sponsored me on previous Pan-Mass Challenge charity rides have my profound thanks once again.

On the other hand, if you have not sponsored my ride, this year’s 2010 Pan-Mass Challenge would be the perfect time to start. Why? Read on…

This year, you can both sponsor my ride and not spend a lot of money ( Read more... )

Those of you who have sponsored me on previous Pan-Mass Challenge charity rides have my profound thanks once again.

On the other hand, if you have not sponsored my ride, but have the means, this would be the perfect time to start. With the economy forcing ( Read more... )

Submitted for your approval:

The year is 1968; a 42 year old Florentine composer named Piero Umiliani pens several tracks for a sexually titillating Italian language pseudo-documentary about Sweden entitled “Svezia, Inferno e Paradiso”: Sweden, Heaven and Hell.

One of those tracks, which accompanies an all-girl sauna scene, charts ( Read more... )

Two years ago, I posted a pointer to a Globe article about Louie Evans, Boston’s iconic tricycle-riding “woop-woop guy”. At that time, someone had stolen his bike, and the guys from my local bike shop, Back Bay Bicycles, were taking up a collection to replace it.

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I’ve been thinking lately about the music of my childhood, those very early songs, barely remembered, but which leave an indelible image upon one’s impressionable youthful brane.

At first I thought I’d track some of these beauts down via torrent and ( Read more... )

So here's a quick example of Grady doing the advertised begging/praying/clapping thing.

In this clip he kinda gets carried away, batting at some imaginary object, but usually he just does the simple begging move.

Interestingly, a search on begging cats brings up the description of the all-grey Chartreux breed, which includes the following ( Read more... )

I’m really bored, so I guess I’ll write about last Thursday’s purchase.

I decided I needed a tiny little point & shoot digital camera to take with me on the bike, and especially for next month’s Pan-Mass Challenge. And, of course, it would also be handy to carry around, to catch the shots I see when I leave the 70-pound dSLR at home.

My criteria ( Read more... )