Just curious… to those artificial sweetener users out there: have you ever actually purchased a box, bag, etc. of the sweetener you prefer? Or are your stocks at home, office and in purse solely filled by grabbing–either a few extra or a gross amount of–packets from your local coff...

Yes it’s that time of year again! The return of the dreaded Daylight Savings Time. A pointless annual ritual of sleep schedule disruption for reasons that aren’t probably all that beneficial these days. There was a rumor that Barack Obama might get rid of it altogether, but apparently it...

I hate daylight savings time. With a Passion. Always have. Always will. It takes me 6 months to adjust to the unnatural shifting of the clock. But it only takes about 6 hours to adjust back to normal time. Natural time. Saw on the news Friday night that heart attacks go UP by 5% the first 2 weeks af...

On the morning of Sunday, 8 March 2009 at 01:00, Daylight Saving Time begins in Ontario and clocks are to be set ahead one hour. It is amazing that we still practice this ludicrous event semi-annually.  Daylight Saving Time saves NOTHING.  Never has, never will.  It's just annoying.  Worse, it's...

Congress will sneak into your bedroom tonight and steal a precious hour of sleep, but you don't need to take the theft lying down. Get up tomorrow and use a few tips from Consumer Reports to steal back some hard-earned cash. General Housekeeping Batteries: Toss new ones in your smoke and carbon mono...

Okay, so apparently last week's ride wasn't my last ride, after all. I'm not even sure if this past Saturday's ride will be considered the "last ride" of the season, so I think I'll stop dubbing them as final bike rides when they may not be. Anyway. Went out on a 2...

My best friend said the other day that if someone ran for governor of Indiana on the sole platform of eliminating DST again, she would vote for him. Despite that I love my man Mitch and admire everything else he's accomplished in his first term as governor, I concurred. Until today, I was at least g...

Mathematician cracks mystery Beatles chord Fourier analysis kicks butt! The rest of the links are behind cuts, so as not to make the post too long on your friends page. Nature Mysterious bat disease decimates colonies: newly identified fungus implicated in white-nose syndrome Northeastern cave-hiber...

I went back to the roots this weekend as some bad weather and bad timing conspired to really sap the fun out of life. I suppose it was all's well that ends well. Thursday night the wife comes home and informs me that her car is leaking gasoline. Not only is it leaking gasoline, but it's making littl...

Okay, so my blog's hiatus is over... for now. I have something(s) to say: *  Just caught up on my blog roll.  Amazing how much anger was inspired by the legally imposed leap forward our clocks made this past week.  Just to show you how different my life is now, I didn't notice the tim...