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Embrace Your Inner Cheapskate
An experiment that kind of makes sense… until you do it. It brings back fond memories of the Asian-American childhood, though. Mom, love you and appreciate you more every day. Really.
Embrace Your Inner Cheapskate
One man challenges himself to go one week without spending a cent and finds the sacrifices are more than he [...]
New Megabus Service from Boston to Philadelphia
Alright!! Though fine with the roundtrip bus rides between Boston and NYC, bus trips to Philadelphia (through NYC) have always been a little harrowing. Especially that one Thanksgiving trip when I found out that all the connecting buses from New York to my end destination were booked. (Ensue salvation through a scramble across the city [...]
That Baseball Romance
So I wasn’t there at the game. And tickets to Stephen Strasburg’s major league debut as a phenom pitcher would have been nearly impossible to get. But still. You have to feel good for the Washington Nationals, and this Washington Post writer gets the magic just right. I love that–at its best, baseball as a [...]
What Pets Can Teach Us About Marriage
An article I came across today in the NY Times, much in the well-loved tradition of the msn.com and yahoo front pages no less. Bring it on! The early quote by one Dr. Phillips is the best, though the ‘Holding Grudges’ lesson also is right up there.
What Pets Can Teach Us About Marriage by Tara [...]
Who Knew that the Water Stash Would Come in Handy?
I don’t remember exactly why or when I bought that case of water bottles that I have in my kitchen utility closet. There must have been some kind of news report saying it was good to have on reserve. Or I might have just watched the episode of Six Feet Under where George [...]
Amazon editors, anyone?
Gee, that sounds exciting…
White House Easter Egg Roll
No, I didn’t get the invite (among the apparent 30,000 or so??) to go to the White House South Lawn for the annual Easter Egg Roll. THAT would have been a pretty cool morning…
Caught an article about it in the Washington Post though, with a charming President doing his thing:
President Obama appeared at the top [...]
Fellow Farmers
“In place of poker, Mila [Kunis] says she spends her time on video games. She and her boyfriend–Macaulay Culkin (editorial note: get out!), whom she calls Mac (editorial note 2: Ok, that’s bad.)–used to play hours of World of Warcraft, until she quit cold turkey. Now she’s on to the Facebook game [...]
Living For a Year on Groupons