• I Would Totally Vote For This, Too

    by Matt • January 26, 2012 • 0 Comments

    56% of registered voters said they’d vote yes if their ballot included the option to replace every member of Congress. on.wsj.com/AmP6nU — Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 26, 2012 Me, too. Just as I said almost two years ago: If it were up to me, we’d toss out the president and every member of both [...]

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    Thhhppfftttt to New York City (and TLC, too)

    by Matt • January 26, 2012 • 1 Comment

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    I think TLC’s Trading Places was the first home-related reality show I watched. That was due, in part, to the crush that I had on the host, Paige Davis, but also due to the fact that it was a fun idea: your help upgrade a room in your neighbor’s house while they help upgrade a [...]

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    New House, Still on Schedule

    by Matt • January 22, 2012 • 0 Comments

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    The first real winter storm of the year finally hit this past week, but it doesn’t seem like it’ll have any impact on progress at the new house. As best we can tell, and from what the project supervisor told us last week, everything is still right on schedule for completion right around March 1st. [...]

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    Sunsets, Barbecues & Outdoor Entertaining

    by Matt • January 14, 2012 • 2 Comments

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    The new house is really coming along! Holy moses, it looks terrific. Cari and I did a walk-through earlier this week with the electrician to choose where TV, Internet and other cables and wires will be placed, along with lighting and everything else involved with an electrical signal. We have another walk-through next week that [...]

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    Open Letter to my Twitter Friends re: Politics

    by Matt • January 7, 2012 • 8 Comments

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    Dear Friends That I Follow on Twitter, If I unfollow you sometime this year, please don’t be offended. It will probably have nothing to do with our friendship and everything to do with politics. I respect you and your opinions on politics, candidates, elections, and so forth; I’m just not interested in hearing about them [...]

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    How Do I Get CSS to Display/Affect an RSS Feed?

    by Matt • January 2, 2012 • 3 Comments

    Wondering if anyone knows how to do this: I want to get CSS coding to “show” in my RSS feed — i.e., to affect how the content looks in the RSS feed. I’m not even sure how to phrase the question, so my Googling for an answer has been useless. Here’s the deal: Last week, [...]

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