Briefly reached vocab level 41 and donated 1,200 grains of rice today. Free Rice

On Soup Plantation (again): Me: Want to go out for dinner tonight? Wife: Sure. Where to? Me: Well, it’s Kids’ Eat Free Night everywhere so the sky’s the limit! Ha! Ruby’s, Polly’s, Chick-fil-A… Oh, we have that Soup Plantation coupon. Wife: Soup Plantation, huh? Me: Let’s not go there though. That place stresses me out. [...]

I’ll try to keep this brief but I wanted to post it because I couldn’t find exactly this procedure anywhere online. Here’s my situation: when I installed Ubuntu I didn’t just repartition my Windows drive—I added a whole new hard drive for it. So I ended up with Windows XP on /dev/sda1 and Ubuntu on [...]

On January 30th 2007 I installed Ubuntu Linux on my computer intending to use it as my primary operating system. I wrote about the surprises of that switch (both happy and vexing) in a four-part series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) in March. It’s been very nearly a year now and I’m [...]

I was recently contacted by a representative of sumolounge.com and asked if I’d like to review one of their bean bags. I’m not exactly in the market for bean bag furniture but our boy has a bean bag and I thought the kids might like another one so… why not? They shipped me a free [...]

I’ll always remember the Halloween of 2007 as the one where I barely avoided pumpkiny doom twice in one day. We started the festivities by carving pumpkins in the afternoon. The kids were very gung-ho about it all until I removed the tops and showed them what had to happen next. “You want us to [...]