Thursday, November 26th, 2009
My kind of cooking involves heavy tools. Give me a chainsaw, axe, and wood splitter and I’m ready to cook. My good friend Joel Smith suggested I try a trash can turkey. A quick search of the internet and I found all I needed to know… this method involved a metal trash can, sledge hammer, shovel, and wooden stake. Immediately hooked, I convinced my mother (convinced is way overstating it) to let me cook our Thanksgiving turkey in a trash can.
Here are the steps: Continued reading >
Friday, November 20th, 2009
- Opportunity to succeed (43%)
- The good life (37%)
- The pursuit of happiness (34%)
- The American dream (22%)
- A fair shake (17%)
- To be left alone (13%)
- A fresh start (9%)
- Everything I can get (9%)
- A fighting chance (8%)
- A new beginning (8%)
The American dream has been dropping on the list because young people don’t think they will ever achieve it. Wanting the good life has moved up in its place.
Source: Dr Frank Luntz, Luntz-Malansky Strategic Research 2009
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
My weblog goes exactly against common recommendations to choose a narrow niche subject (or one with a lot of scantily clad girls) and stick to it in order to grow readers. I don’t care about that. What I care about is archiving my stuff somewhere where others can access it if they want to…if not, no big deal.
My stuff is very eclectic a varies depending on what I am currently thinking about or doing. I wanted to organize topics into pages for easier access. I love the Simplr Wordpress Theme because it focuses the reader on the content, not on flash. Simplr puts the categories at the bottom of the page, even though there is a skip content option I would rather have my topics up front. After a little searching I found the topic resolves on WP forums here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/257767
I combined a couple of the recommendations. Here’s how I did it [DISCLAIMER: I know code like I know Spanish...enough to order fajitas and ask for El Baño] Continued reading >