Can you catch more flies with honey than vinegar? The definitive answer: NO. Lately we’ve been dealing with a plague of fruit flies, and I’ve been turning to traditional methods to get rid of them. Along the way, I thought of the old adage that you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar (meant…

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75 Years of Band-Aid

Resolved: If you find yourself using a utility knife to cut down cardboard boxes for recycling, and wonder aloud that, since you get so many packages and have so much cardboard to cut up each week, how long it will be until you eventually cut yourself with that utility knife, the answer is about 60…

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Serious brain cloud today. I couldn’t hear John C. Reilly’s voice (his sad sack from Magnolia) but could not think of his name or really make out his face. Damn I’m getting old. Finally it came to me… Argh! John C. Reilly

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Facts & Figures: Crack – Drug Facts, ONDCP

Last night I had a nightmare that my new floors suddenly got cracked, two days after installation. (I do have some new flooring, but only in one stairwell.) Kinda nutty. I thought my days of home improvement nightmares were over and the era of kid-related nightmares had begun. No?

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I’ll be on Good Morning America this Sunday. It’s on at 7am (8am Central). Check it out. I have no idea whether what I said will be coherent, but it will be about TiVo. Tune in! Edit: Looks like I got cut. :( ABC News: Find Out The Day’s News And Weather On GMA

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Burglary – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robbed! Last night I stupidly left the garage door open (I must have double-hit the button when I left), and since I have the auto-door-shutting system turned off while our stairs are being worked on, the door apparently remained open all night long. This morning, I found three things had been stolen: Two power drills…

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