Suburban Redneck

We had great hopes when we first read about the Texas Smokehouse BBQ in east San Jose. Reviews were generally good, and comments were encouraging. The location was a bit out of the way, but, since my wife now teaches school in that part of town, it became an option for picking something up on [...]

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And 75-year-old Mona Shaw did just that:
Shaw, 75, and her husband, Don, say they had an appointment in August for a Comcast technician to come to their Bristow home to install the company’s heavily advertised Triple Play phone, Internet and cable service.
The Shaws say no one came all day, and the technician who showed up [...]

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It’s always difficult when you get a hankering for a certain savory something, and it’s just not available. For example, just yesterday I called my brother as he was driving through the local Chick-Fil-A to pick up his lunch. A Chick-Fil-A, for you of the untutored masses, is one of the world’s best fast food [...]

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Thank you Whole Foods, for carrying this. Somehow my life feels more complete knowing this exists.
That’s right. A gourmet chocolate bar with alder wood smoked salt, and applewood smoked bacon.
I am amazed, appalled, curious, and happy all at the same time.

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At least, according to this NY Times article, most of the advice about a low-fat diet cannot be backed up by clinical trial evidence. It appears to be a (mis)information cascade, where bad ideas get promulgated simply because no one can afford to sully their reputations by disagreeing with the populist consensus.
There were two glaring [...]

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Then I have the restaurant for you!
The police spokesman said no arrests were made in the case. “As far as I’m aware it’s not a criminal offense to cook very strong chili,” he said.

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…you get an email from your child’s school that says, “the rumors are not true; no weapons were involved.”
Of course, many schools don’t offer good knife-fighting curricula these days.

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Thankfully, I no longer really have to deal with databases on a day to day basis at my job. Between the talented crew of backend engineers I work with, our moves in the RESTful web services area, and other considerations, I am freed up to focus on all the pixel herding that some folks believe [...]

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