Suburban Redneck

No, I’m not talking about the movie. I’m talking about feral pigs.
In Southeast Texas, where I grew up, we call them javelinas. In much of the south, they’re called razorbacks. They were popular among hunters because the quality of the meat as well as the fact that they could be pretty dangerous in a fight.
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Chris has been cycling to work for a month now, but don’t worry; he’s figured out how to offset the loss of his carbon footprint because of it:
One of the funny side affects of the whole thing is most people think its really “green” of me to bike-to-work. But my motivation is purely selfish, I [...]

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My son has added Linux to his iPod and is running a Nintendo emulator that lets him play Gameboy games. According to him, the hardest part is learning which spots on the touch-wheel correspond to the buttons on the Gameboy. Also, because the CPU on the iPod is heftier, the games run about 200% faster [...]

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Our neighbors are rather quiet and unassuming. You see them and their kids all over the neighborhood, sometimes even sleeping underneath the trees in the back of the house. Here’s one of them inspecting our car.
In Texas, we would have suspected that she would dress out to only about 40lbs. of meat, and thus [...]

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