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posts about shopping or wants (Quote taken from How I Met Your Mother’s Lily during her play..oh, and it’s Ted’s face)

Review: Sony Dash

Introduction to the device:  The Sony Dash is marketed as a “personal internet viewer.”  In my opinion, it does not live up to that name.  Others are more accurately calling it “glimpse internet” and “upgraded alarm clock.”  It’s a 7″ … Continue reading

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Review: KY Intense Gel for Her

By popular demand, here is the video review that I recently did for the Amazon Vine program, for KY Intense Gel for Her. I don’t know when or if Amazon will post the review, but I had fun doing it. … Continue reading

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Capitalism FTW!

We’re spending this weekend at the Gopher (Minnesota) Bridge Regional, which happens to be at the Mall of America. Our hotel is literally in the parking lot. Were it not for an annoying fence, we could walk there pretty easily. … Continue reading

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I love Zune!

OMG, I should have switched to Zune years ago. Things that are awesome that you will not find being mentioned on most reviews and blogs: The Zune comes with various sized earbuds. (You hear that Apple? PEOPLE DON’T ALL HAVE … Continue reading

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*This* is the face of consumerism?

Today, we had to do an emergency shopping trip on two counts. First, I needed some kind of “park purse” as my (super-awesome and carefully selected) park purse got stolen. Second, I needed a digital camera, preferably this Panasonic 9.1MP … Continue reading

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Silver Linings

We got robbed today. My parents’ car was broken into. The good news is that no one was hurt, and my parents’ truck was undamaged. (Edited to add on 1/16: As of the time that I’m editing and actually posting … Continue reading

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Awesome sale!

IGIGI is having an AMAZING sale right now. Many of their awesome dresses are

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Productive!

Last night, I: Prepped and cooked rice in my brand new Sanyo fuzzy logic rice cooker! delicious! Programmed our Logitech Harmony 880 remote to work with the new basement setup Went grocery shopping for soda, rice, and breakfast food for … Continue reading

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Kitchen Essentials

The posting of this article over on LifeHacker has led to a healthy flood of comments. First, the article is written very poorly. It is not easy to figure out which items are the good or the bad. You have … Continue reading

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Honesty

The Truth: What Obama and McCain Won’t Tell You About Your Money by Ramit Sethi

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