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What’d you do today, Jake?
Well, kids, I’ll tell ya…

I cut a bunch of tile.

I got my car back.
I took my wife to get more skin art.

Good times.

First a floor update: After taking yesterday off completely thanks to the chill I caught on the motorbike and general laziness (it is a vacation, after all), I came out firing today. First, I scooted around on the subfloor removing the remaining staples from the carpet pad. After that bag o’ fun, I scooted around […]

As I mentioned, I had to have my Rodeo towed to a mechanic this past Saturday.
Well, today I needed to get the keys to said mechanic so that they could actually work on the thing. (I didn’t see any key drop box at the shop on Saturday.) The Wife is working, so that left me […]

Keep an eye on my Flickr photos for updates on my latest home improvement project: tiling the office with slate tile.

Office Slate Project: Subfloor NE
Originally uploaded by Jake Sutton.
This is only somewhat hampered by the fact that my car broke yesterday (on the way back from fetching the remainder of my slate purchase, in fact) […]

Somehow, I’ve manage to avoid learning that Sikhs are required by their religion to carry a dagger:
The kirpan, one of five items baptized Sikhs are required to wear, is meant as a reminder of the duty to uphold justice. The others are reminders of other things: the kesh, or Sikhs’ uncut hair, to live as […]

Sometime between a year and two years ago, I had one of my molars crumble to bits, necessitating a root canal and crown. That was fun times.
Starting a month or two ago, that very same tooth started acting tetchy.  Then one day a few weeks ago it went so thermonuclear that I couldn’t see straight. […]

Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire? A researcher (from my alma mater, Boston University) uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.
Another cognitive process essential for winning on Millionaire is intuition, or more precisely, knowing how to make decisions based on intuition. What if you have a […]

So, it looks like the Blues (Have the parties always been denoted by the same colors, or is this a recent, TV-news-map-on-the-wall-influenced thing?) managed to waltz in to control both the House and Senate after voters told the nation, “Hey! These people suck! I’m voting against them!!” Is this a “national referendum” of some sort? […]