A friend has been talking about survival camping lately, and brought up the question of how you could do something as simple as boil water if you didn’t have a pot? […]
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Category: Everything Else
Pool Cleaning Diary
We have had a few rough years of mastering the art of pool cleaning. This year I feel optimistic though. Each year we have discovered and fixed major errors in […]
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The Ultimate Breakfast
What does a hard-working man eat for breakfast? Oatmeal. Every morning without fail. Knowing this, for years I have unsuccessfully tried to force mushy oatmeal down my throat. Since I […]
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Cicada Killer Wasp
Several dirt piles pimpled a friend’s Long Island lawn. It turns out that the mounds are nests burrowed by cicada killer wasps. These two-inch-long wasps look intimidating but are generally […]
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Dragon Warrior World Map
Google has added a map of the world in none other than Dragon Warrior graphics. This is the best April Fools day present I ever got. This comes at perfect […]
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Puffball Dream
I just woke up from a dream: We were in a large homey apartment in NYC, or perhaps some foreign city. I went to the cupboard and grabbed a berry […]
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Wells Fargo at HSBC
I went to my local HSBC bank and noticed a sticker on the door for “Wells Fargo Alarm Services”. You can see the sticker on the lower-left corner of the […]
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Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker paid a visit to our front yard today. I should have been nice and let him be, but instead I chased him out of the yard with a […]
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Hudson River Flooding
The Green Island Bridge in Troy, NY was closed today. I took a short detour and stopped to take a look at the Hudson River near Brown’s Brewing Company and […]
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Irene's Morrow
I took these pictures the day after Hurricane Irene payed us a visit. I was checking out the water levels for various streams in the area. You can click on […]
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