Thursday 11.1

Recipes for leftover Halloween candy!

Tuesday/Wednesday 10.30-31

More hammering. Grrr.

Monday 10.29

Light posting today...percussive maintenance is being performed on our computers.

Weekend 10.26-27-28

Happy 44th birthday to Dutchess County's own Natalie Merchant! Here she is on Letterman back in the day:

We'd like to have "Team Sal" push this year's total take for the Alzheimer's Foundation over the $400,000 mark - and they're at 399-something. Stop by www.alz.org/hudsonvalley or call 845.471-2655.

How to do Halloween on a budget.

Nerd alert! It's string theory explained in two minutes:

Thursday 10.25

Here's the link for ticket info on those free Dave Matthews Band tickets at West Point in November. Availability, as you would imagine, is extremely limited.

Calculating your "you" time:

Add up the time in any given day you spend sleeping, grooming, eating, working, driving, errand-running, exercise, socializing, chatting on the phone. Subtract from 24 hours. Chances are you'll get a big fat zero (unless you are a fancy suit-wearing management type). End of experiment.

A periodic table shower curtain for the nerd in your life.

Wednesday 10.24

If you're thinking of switching to organic food, these five foods are the easiest to switch to, with the least impact on your wallet.

So the newest Nobel Peace Prize winner (Al Gore) goes to Berlin to speak at a global-warming conference. Temperatures were 20 degrees below normal, naturally.

Tuesday 10.23

HAPPY 2nd BIRTHDAY, DANIEL JONES!

Remember that Simplicity/Graco crib recall from last month, when the company said they were sending out repair kits to all the families affected? Yeah, they'll get right on that. Eventually. It's not like it's a deadly defect or anything. What? It is? Oh, in that case they'll get on it after their golf outing.

Things that make you say "duh": Young married couples gain weight more quickly than their single counterparts.

Obit of the day: A farewell to Sammy (Samantha) Duddy, paramilitary drag artiste.

Monday 10.22

With Halloween on the way, we thought we'd point you to some of the finest writing from the legendary obituary section of London's Telegraph.

Requiescat in pace, David Muffett:

In 1960 he apprehended the Tigwe of Vwuip, a northern Nigerian tribal chief who had eaten the local tax collector. The Tigwe had apparently been so impressed by the man's ability to acquire money on demand that he had — understandably — decided to try to assimilate his powers.

That. Is. Awesome.

Oh, yum. Nothing like going to the grocer's and finding the package of food simply labeled "MEAT".

Friday 10.19-20-21

Oh, man:

If there's a Mad magazine fan on your holiday shopping list, we bet the complete Don Martin collection would be many different kinds of cool. Not that we would know anything about juvenile humor.

Thursday 10.18

Finally, an elegant answer to the question of how to keep your cereal crunchy in milk.

Wednesday 10.17

Timewaster: How fast can you press the spacebar? (Mr. J got to 54 in 5 seconds on account of he used to play drums.)

Here's a cute idea if you've got a little one who likes to dance on your feet...but right now it's just a prototype.

Tuesday 10.16

How to take good Halloween pictures, courtesy of the New York Institute of Photography.

Sometimes obituaries are fun.

Monday 10.15

The cereal weasels are at it again.

Hee hee hee:

Weekend 10.12-13-14

Diaper prices will be going up in '08.

This weekend's recipe? Pitchfork Fondue. Gotta love any recipe that starts with the instructions "A couple dozen pounds of lard are brought to boil..."

Warning: do not watch this next video while drinking a beverage or it will shoot out of your nose:

Thursday 10.11

For more information on Big Brothers / Big Sisters in your community, the number to call is 1-888-412-BIGS, or just go right to www.bbbs.org.

Best time to get rolling on Christmas shopping? That'd be now.

Wednesday 10.10

Bacon-apple pie. Yum-meee!

Animal versus Buddy Rich. A classic:

Tuesday 10.9

www.manyvoicesonevalley.org has all the results of that new survey on the issues of greatest importance to regular Hudson Valley residents like you and Mr. J and...well, maybe not Miller. He's not regular.

If you need to complain to a business because The Man^TM has been keeping you down, here's a good place to start.

Today's recall of Chinese-made products? Cub Scout badges.

Nice shed (Peter Gabriel sold separately).

Even nicer Death Valley night-sky panorama.

Monday 10.8 - Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian fans!

Yeah, the Post Office is closed today, but when it's open you can get free stuff there.

Weekend 10.5-6-7 (yeah, we'll be around for Columbus Day)

For more information on the Elephant Project, a local effort fighting Alzheimer's disease, go to elephantproject.org.

How to cook lasagna in your dishwasher.

Craiglist, meet Wall Street.

Thursday 10.4

For more info on this morning's conversation with Mike Gordon of Zimmer Brothers and Anna from the Dutchess SPCA about this weekend's "World's Largest Doggie (and Kitty) Charm Sale" benefitting the SPCA, check out either the Zimmer Brothers site or go to the Dutchess SPCA site.

Presented without comment for those of you who have daughters:

Timewaster: Qwizard 5.

And from the UK, you know you've made good chili when Scotland Yard shuts down your street thinking there's a terrorist attack happening.

Wednesday 10.3

Mr. J forgot that pie recipe...again. Grr.

Tuesday 10.2

Here's the link to the Alzheimer's Memory Walk "Team Sal" page. (We mistakenly set up two; use this one and we'll try to redirect the other one to the right place as well, if we're geek-skilled enough to do it)

Nice job, kid:

Monday 10.1

How to clean your home in 19 minutes. (Or 19 years if you've got kids.)

A stinging rebuttal to the lame muffin recipe below is on the way tomorrow (UPDATE: er, um, Wednesday - Mr. J forgot to bring it with him) from none other than the illustrious Mrs. Jones. It will be the best pumpkin-pie recipe you have EVER made, without any jive about ginseng capsults.

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