Securing your home is about one thing: never leave a potential point of entry without any kind of hindrance to an intruder. It is impossible to make your home 100% secure, meaning someone with enough determination will find a way to break in and cause some mayhem, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get very [...]
My parents adopted Jake as puppy from the Animal Lifeline of Iowa. He was tiny as a puppy, and he was definitely a puppy. Those are my shoes he’s near. Size 12. Yeah, he was small as a pup. On one afternoon I was outside with him, he engaged “full puppy mode” and decided to [...]
One type of game I’ve always enjoyed is the RTS, or real-time strategy — games such as Command & Conquer, StarCraft and the like where you are given a base or starting area with some starting provisions, and you need to destroy your enemy, who also has a base and provisions. When I first started [...]
Reuters blogger Linda Stern recently wrote an article regarding financial decisions that can wait. Many of the items listed in the article are things beyond any person’s normal expertise, such as annuities and IRAs — i.e. things that would require a consultation with a financial planner to fully understand. But two items on the list [...]
It can be said that Sam Harris is being lambasted for being an atheist that supports gun rights. Atheism is typically the domain of the "left", and in some cases the hardcore "left", but he is certainly not alone among atheists. Several other prominent atheists also support gun rights, including Seth Andrews ("The Thinking Atheist") [...]
My wife and I got officially married a little over a year ago, taking the courthouse route to the official status. In that time, because we got married at the end of the year, at my suggestion my wife put off legally changing her name. This was in part due to the fact that tax [...]
I’ll say up front that I’ve never seen much of the show Two and a Half Men, nor do I ever intend to familiarize myself with the series. I know all I need by the simple fact that Charlie Sheen was the show’s star until his fall-out last year, into which Ashton Kutcher stepped in [...]
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Alden Armstrong August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
In the days before Facebook when e-mail was the more common form of communication around the Internet, there existed a type of e-mail that did wonders in destroying the collective psyche of everyone who fell pray to its psychological torture. It seems the “No true Scotsman” fallacy is alive and well and in full swing [...]
Eventually every cat owner comes to discover that they do not own their cat, instead the cats are the rulers of the house, with taxes paid in the forms of cat food, water, and whatever time they demand of you for attention.