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Copyright © 2006 Laurie D. T. Mann Please read my blog entries at my Web site: http://www.dpsinfo.com/blog . The FDA reports that marijuan...

Somewhere around 1960, my parents bought me a pine dresser. It lasted through my childhood. At one point, I painted it blue. Eventually, ...

Not clear where this came from, but: Go to Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org/). Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events ...

Most of my family has been in the United States for a very long time. My ancestors were mostly English and Scottish. They started leaving...

I love the Brits. Only in England could a wonderful site like We Are Not Afraid bloom into a Web phenomenon by the middle of July of last ye...

Which is ironic to say the least. Exactly one year ago today, I wrote in this blog: I didn't just tinker yesterday - I wrote over 1,000 ...

We plan to have professional movers handle most of our move. We're getting old, our friends are getting old, et.c. So, starting this w...

Tonight, we bought our brand new house in the country. It's a neat, large house and it has woods. It's out past the airport, but i...

Jim and I are considering buying a new house (details when we know something for sure). The problem with buying a new house (or anything th...

I haven't been writing much online lately for two important reasons: * I'm really, really close to finishing my novel * Jim an...

Christina recently called for another in an erratic series of Girly Blogger Lunches. I noted that the day she planned it for was Mardi Gras....

I've been doing some research on James Madison over the last year or so. Why? Well, other than an interest in history, I'm writing...

Preliminary Registration Statistics 618 Prereg/Program/Guests 174 Full-at-the-door 34 Friday 192 Saturday 61 Sunday 10 Special     5 Kid-in-...

IMDB linked to this quiz today. Even though the quiz did two things I disliked (uses that archaic term "sci fi" and throws a pop-...

I never know when I'm going to be in it out out of it. It's maddeningly random. Except for a few short scenes and some word-changes...

Well, I'm not a big gung-ho sports person, but it was fun to see the Steelers win the Superbowl today. Glad to see both Hines Ward and ...

Well, it's kind of an interesting Oscar year. While last year was generally a weak movie year, there were some fine movies out. The big...

Benefit for the Production of a Documentary Film on William Tenn Malacandra Productions presents An evening to benefit production of the doc...

I'd really like to see Brokeback Mountain , a movie that has yet to reach Pittsburgh for some reason or another. Interestingly, it'...

OK, so this is something of a mix of things! This has been an interesting week. I started a new job with a very small company on Monday. I...