The Common Consumer

Heather and I have started a new blog.  It’s called the Common Consumer.
We were speculating tonight on the difference between energy saving light bulbs and regular light bulbs (how much longer they actually last, whether they are really worth the extra money, etc.).  In the process, we started thinking about how cool it would be [...]

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WikiJournalists = Whacky Journalism

“Wikipedia is the best thing ever.  Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.”  ~ Michael Scott
Unless you’ve been living under a bridge, you have surely heard by now the hullabaloo surrounding conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh and his minority [...]

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A Relaxing Weekend

This past weekend was quite relaxing.  On Friday night, Heather and I went to an off-Broadway production of the Phantom of the Opera that was playing at the Fox theater.  I’ve been to the Fox several times before, but this was the first time I had seen Phantom there.  All in all, it was pretty [...]

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Random Things

I just wanted to make a few random notes about the goings on in my life.
The first is that you might notice on the sidebar that I am now registered on Twitter.  I’ve resisted “tweeting” for a long time because micro-blogging just seems like such a waste of time.  In a moment of weakness, however, [...]

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Shutter Island

It’s 1954.  The place is a small island in the Massachusetts Outer Harbor that houses a facility known as Ashcliffe Hospital, one of the most notorious institutions in the United States.  Ashcliffe is an institution for the criminally insane, and one of the inmates has escaped, a deranged psychotic by the name of Rachel Solando.  [...]

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