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How far to the nearest McDonalds?
Strange maps has a cool entry, showing a map of the US highlighted by McDonalds locations. There's a place in South Dakota that is 145 miles from the nearest McDonalds, and that is the record.
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Soccer: Nemesis
My favorite date on the soccer schedule is the one that says "Yuengling vs Lions". I have deemed the Lions as our nemesis, rather than a rival, since I have never beaten them in six years. With the talent on our team, and several players missing from the Lions, and five subs for us versus none for them, it should have been our night. Rather, it was a pretty even game, and an even 1-1 result. Like a good Eagles fan, I am once again forced to say "maybe we'll win next year".
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The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna

From Southern Fried Science comes a post titled The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna. The upshot is that "dolphin-safe" methods are disastrous to other species. Key takeaway:

If you work out the math on this ... you find that 1 dolphin saved costs 382 mahi-mahi, 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 27 sharks, and almost 1,200 small fish.
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A game, a goal, a win, and another shot to the face

We had a co-ed game tonight and it was another good one. A close first half ended with us up 1-0. We added another early in the 2nd, but then the opposition pressed hard in hopes of getting their own goal. Instead, James stole the ball and fed me for a sweet breakaway goal that curled under the goalie's hand to the near post. We won 3-0, our first shutout of the year.

But the real star of the game was Elise, who took a soccer ball in the face, crunching her old sunglasses against her nose and causing a little cut. She also got a bruise from the ball. She looked pretty fierce after the game, maybe even tougher than Carlos after his cut the game prior!

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Soccer: Now that's using your head!
Team Yuengling faced last year's #1 seed tonight. We gave up an early goal but kept the pressure on and equalized. In the second half each team added one more. Then our opponents had a breakaway. I came out to challenge the shot, and I never saw it because the forward drilled it right in my face. Fortunately it popped up in the air afterwords and I caught it. We had a frantic finish but ended on a 2-2 tie. Not bad for our second game of the season, and such a terrific foe!
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Pair of co-ed soccer games
Two games in the past two weeks for the Co-ed team, and both were lopsided 4-1 affairs that were not as close as the score. We lost the first and won the second. I had my first goal of the season on a hard driving roller off of a breakaway, and had a second one stolen when the goalkeeper made a brilliant save of my header off of a corner kick.
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Let's chill out a bit on our political name-calling
From PunditKitchen.com:
First Bush was Hitler, now Obama is Hitler. Let’s clear something up right now. All U.S. Presidents are gonna have some bad ideas, regardless of which political party they’re in, but until they decided to kill 6,000,000+ people for having “inferior genes” let’s hold off on the name calling.
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Soccer starts again!
It's great to be out on the field again! Our co-ed team started the season Tuesday against last year's defending champs, and boy did we make them look good in a 7-1 loss. The men's team played tonight. In a hard-fought back-and-forth game we prevailed 2-1. I had some exciting moments saving a breakaway and deflecting a moonshot just barely over the goal. All in all it looks like it will be another fun season!
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Tech Support Cheat Sheet
The secret is out... here is the Tech Support Cheat Sheet that us "computer people" use!
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Some things are better explained using flow charts
Some things are better explained using flow charts, like the song Total Eclipse of the Heart. Turn around, bright eyes!
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