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Learning how to drive all over again

Saturday, 24 February 2007 2:27 P GMT-06

For years, I drove in Chicago on a daily basis, battling rush hour traffic on Lake Shore Drive that could make my five-mile commute take anywhere from 30 minutes to nearly three hours. While the commute could be irritating, it was no real

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So, Who's Surprised?

Friday, 23 February 2007 6:43 A GMT-06

From the Februrary 23rd Washington Post:Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed

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Books and Shoes....

Thursday, 22 February 2007 7:05 P GMT-06

Can a girl ever have too many?As most of you know, I'm making the trek from Brisbane to Melbourne for a new job. I leave <gulp> on Monday. T minus 3 days. Most of my stuff has been packed away into boxes, barring the things that I still nee

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Kate

Lost (Again)

Thursday, 22 February 2007 4:02 P GMT-06

Okay, so I know this was a Jack episode, but can I just say that I didn't really like the fact that Jack was clearly thinking with a part of his anatomy that isn't his brain and that the heartbroken Sawyer completely stole the show. (An

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I'm Going on a Ghost Hunt!

Monday, 19 February 2007 7:24 A GMT-06

Any fans of the show Ghost Hunters out there?I have been hooked on this show since it first debuted on SciFi three years ago. The premise is that full-time plumbers-turned-part-time-paranormal investigators Grant and Jason and their team take a

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Sometimes a beverage makes all the difference...

Thursday, 15 February 2007 9:02 A GMT-06

This is tiny, smallish, teeny-weeny, unimportant gripe, but has anyone else noticed that Panera Bread's beverage choices have become incredibly lame?First of all, they have Pepsi products. I am a certified Coke fiend (Coca-Cola, that is -

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A Game-Changing Episode

Thursday, 15 February 2007 8:56 A GMT-06

Holy Flashback, Batman!Do you think we learned last night that, in the Lost universe, time travel is possible and that all the flashbacks have really been the castaways flipping back in time? Is Desmond the only one able to see the truth?

Category: TV Sandy C.

What's That??

Wednesday, 14 February 2007 9:57 P GMT-06

You want to see a picture of my new car? Well, far be it from me to deny the AAR crowd anything: She's a 1995 Mazda 323 Protege. I've named her Marigold

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Kate

Messin' with the Google Ads

Wednesday, 14 February 2007 2:30 P GMT-06

Now the way I understand it, those Google ads on the right hand side of thise page are supposed to be based on words that Google finds in the blog. So, if that's the case, why in hell are the current ads for military surplus tents, Maryland

Category: Sandy C.

Holding Books to a Heyer Standard

Monday, 12 February 2007 1:00 P GMT-06

A recent thread at AAR about grading, turned up some discussion about the A+ grade. Something that is - and should be - rare.

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Feeling All Grown Up

Sunday, 11 February 2007 4:52 P GMT-06

I saw Stranger than Fiction yesterday. I adored it and think everyone should rush out and see it, but that's not the reason for this post. There's a scene where Will Ferrell is lying in bed, and the narrator says something along the lines of

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Kate

More Pandas

Sunday, 11 February 2007 6:45 A GMT-06

For the simple reason that it makes me happy to look at them. These are from Woolong in China and were all taken in 2005, the year of the worldwide Panda Baby Boom.And Tai Shan and Mom Mei at the National Zoo. Because it doesn't get a

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An event to enjoy in mid-February

Friday, 9 February 2007 5:04 P GMT-06

Around the middle of this month comes an increasingly pleasant event for me. I enjoyed the spectacle, the beauty, and the excitement of it. My husband, who was never that enthusiastic about it before, nevertheless humored me, and in fact,

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So, Was It Good for You?

Thursday, 8 February 2007 4:04 P GMT-06

Well, I was certainly on the edge of my seat...or bed, more accurately since that's where I watched the show. So, no answers. More questions. And what's up with that Alex chick? Is she really Ben's daughter, which would

Category: TV Sandy C.

Baby It's Cold Outside

Wednesday, 7 February 2007 6:59 P GMT-06

For the past two weeks, I've received lots of calls and emails from friends and family who live in the south or southwest. According to them, those areas of the country have been unusually, bitterly cold for the past month. Each time

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Criminal, Indeed

Monday, 5 February 2007 11:52 A GMT-06

Speaking of Lost, last fall it was beaten in the ratings a couple of weeks for the first time by CBS's opposing Criminal Minds. Personally, I thought that was pretty depressing, seeing yet another derivative crime show win out over a program

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Leigh

Something very cool for Lost fans.

Monday, 5 February 2007 10:04 A GMT-06

A six and a half-minute episode tease featuring producers Cuse and Lindelof, as well as Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, and Desmond. There's also some cool stuff about the upcoming season, too.

Category: TV Sandy C.

The Real Upcoming Major Television Event

Saturday, 3 February 2007 5:58 P GMT-06

I don't do football. This is perhaps, one of the major understatements of the 21st century.But while it seems like half the world has their eyes on

Category: TV Sandy C. Pop Culture