Musical Zest:

Songs currently on my radar.  My intent is to introduce people to new music, music I like but certainly not a representative cross section of my diverse interests.  If you have a suggestion please send it along.

The Juggling Apparatus "Hands":

A neat little juggling apparatus, affectionately named "Hands", is briefly discussed here because I think it's pretty damn cool.  Hopefully it will someday be the ancestor of a magnificent gismo.  The page is the token remnant of my engineering dayz (other than the massive amounts of scripting behind the scenes of the website you are presently enjoying).  

Pondered Ponderables:

Do They Put "Real" Cookie Dough in "Cookie Dough" Ice Cream?

One day Matt and I wondered if Edy's used real cookie dough.  I mean, it tastes like cookie dough but are those over-zealous ice cream makers trying to pull one over on America?  We aimed to find out.

First we bought some cookie dough ice cream and extracted the cookie dough.  Our initial idea was to eat around the cookie dough and deposit the cookie dough globules in a bowl.  

Interested in the rest of the story and the results? 

Fun and Crazy People:

If you liked the story above then you'll probably like these people as well.  Personally, I'm a fan of the Astor-Rubik's Cube prank.  

U.S. Travels:

A color shaded U.S. Map denoting the states I have visited.  Most of them were during two cross country road trips.  Slowly I'm filling in the remaining states, I can't wait to visit Nebraska and see the Shootin' Pit and play Ouija in Shawn's friend's uncle's farmhouse basement and howl at the wolves from atop hay stacks and run through corn fields at night and drive motorcycles into combines - good ole' Nebraska!  Don't even get me started on Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain ...