Have you ever stopped to think about the worlds most populous bird?  Gallus Gallus Domesticus is the common chicken.  We all love the bird.  I like it baked, broiled, fried, blanched, grilled and poached.  Lets face it chicken is GOOD.  I was watching an epsiode of Good Eats with Alton Brown about the humble clucker and decided I wanted to know more.  Here are some of the fun facts I learned. Chickens are decended from jungle...

        I was thinking today about the things we seem to do during the late spring and early summer months at my house and it ocured to me that people on the whole ignore their PCs during the summer months.  They play outside, they go swimmimg, heck some folks even CLEAN.      It seems to me that at this time of year when the temp is the highest most folks seem to neglect the old computer.  So as the helpful kind of guy I am I...

    Ah the doldrums of late winter.  I sit writing this while my mind pines away for the sunshine and warmth of spring.  I am sure many of you reading this feel the same way.  Thinking of what to write has been tough lately, but today I had a fun thought and in a flash knew what this post would be about.     Being a technophile means I will never be without work, thankfully. That being said here is a list of the invaluable tools...

      Today I would like to rant a bit about the overused term BASICALLY.  Seems like everyone from late night talk show hosts to politicians uses the term basically as a crutch or a filler word.  They need to STOP NOW!     We have a beautiful language.  The English language has thousands of words that roll off ones tongue with grace and fluidity.  I basically want everyone to stop murdering the language.  Basically this is our...

     I was just introduced to the most brain stimulating debate I have had in while and I thought I would share it with you.  It is not a new debate, certainly not when you’re dealing with millennia.  Late last night I sat at the old computer gathering info about the last ten years for my end-of-year blog post and I came to the frustrating realization that there is actually a great deal of debate about this subject.  It seems...

    About a month ago my wife and I went to visit some of her relatives in the great state of Kentucky.   If your interested here are some pictures I snapped.   What I initially somewhat dreaded, turned out to be one of the nicest family gatherings I have been to in a long while.   I got to thinking about how simple it was and how much I really enjoyed it. All we did was grill out and eat in the backyard while sitting around a big...