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In lieu of being creative, I offer you a random IM snippet:

me@work: man… it smells SOOOOOOOO rancid in here
me@work: jokers cooking fish in the microwave
Preble: Fish… FISH. Who does that? Really…
me@work: People that wanna get CUT, thats who
Preble: I mean, seriously… what kind of person brings that in? Tell me about [...]

I know it’s been some time since a post ..so to make up for the long absence, I bring you this (hat tip to Neal): “Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods that present no health hazards for humans”
If you’ve ever wondered how many rodent hairs the FDA deems “acceptable” [...]

That’s right — read that again. Engaged. Now take a few moments for yourself while I read that again :)
I took Nichole out to a wonderful restaurant Saturday night for her 25th birthday …and totally surprised her with a proposal. What follows is the story of that evening from my point of [...]

A recent comment on Preble’s blog has inspired me to share a simple and entertaining word game that a fellow nerd here at work shared with me, and that the whole cadre of nerds here occasionally will bring up during conversation: preposition switching, usually in person-to-person action phrases. This lends itself to some really [...]

Neal provides a link to this Chicago Tribune story (sorry, it’s passworded — see www.bugmenot.com for “preview options”…) which summarizes what’s being whispered in newsrooms around the world for about the past week: “Could Bush be right?” Certainly it’s too soon to attempt to come to any conclusions about Iraq or Afghanistan, but with [...]