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  1. pingpong

    Going to Fenway Park for the first time

    Catch BP at the Bleacher Bar. Pretty cool to be able to see from inside the Green Monster.
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    Geek Dictionary & History

    "When it's brown it's cooking and when it's black it's done". The infamous words that kicked off the Great Steak Debate.
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    The Hunger Games

    I read the book and thought it was excellent. While not up to the literary standards of an MDC short story, it was still a very good (and quick) read. We already have tickets to my daughter's birthday party to see the premier with 10 7th grade girls. I'm sure the movie will not live up to the hype, to dismiss the story as a teen writing is not fair. Very original concept written well.
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    Name your top 3 beers

    peenie, Sounds like you want to avoid anything too hoppy. That means stay away from IPA, Pale Ales, and any beer with the word Hop in the title. Many micro brewers also over-hop their beers, which tends to be an American craft beer standard. Magic Hat, Dogfish, Smuttynose, Victory, all seem to add more hops that I'd prefer. Magic Hat #9 is one exception from your list. Very nice with a slight apricot flavor. You would generally want to try Lagers, Belgians (Dubel, Tripel), and my fave - Octoberfest (Marzen). To give you my top 3 for 9 months of the year: Newcastle Brown Ale Stella Artois Moosehead (for after playing hockey) Come August, when the Oktoberfest beers start coming out, all bets are off and my list is 100% dominated by Oktoberfest beers. Sam Adams is one of the best, as is Dogfish and Stoudts. The German's are also good with Hacker-Pschorr, Spaten, Paulaner. One beer to add to your try list is Hasker-Pschorr Helles Lager. I've never met anyone who hasn't liked it.
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    Tebow smiley needed

    If we can get a Thrash smiley, surely we can have a Tebow!
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    What are your favorite books?

    Just finished The Road. Halfway through I was loving it. By the end, it was just Meh.
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    Child dilemma - Lego theif

    I acree the we give suspect another chance. I actually like the kid and he was very respectful to me. My son vows to never play with him again. Betrayal sucks. Every day we see the boy wandering and looking to play. Mom rarely pays attention. I'm sure she will not try to to return all of the other stolen legos.
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    Child dilemma - Lego theif

    In a strange series of events, that did not involve donkey punches or the woodshed, the case of the missing legos has been cracked. Here is how it went down. 5:30 – Suspect’s mother knocks on our door asking if we have seen 7 year old suspect. He never came home from the bus 2 hours ago. In the process of the conversation, non-distraught mother admires our house, asks about our situation, and takes a cell phone call. Hardly the motherly reaction you would expect when your child is missing. 5:40- My 3 kids and their friends embark on a search and rescue missing to locate the suspect. 5:45- Suspect found at another child’s house. My kids return him to his house and alert the still not distraught mother. 6:00-Suspect arrives at my back door asking for my son (Lego victim) to come to his house to play ‘tag’. 6:05- Wife makes innocent comment to suspect: W-So Suspect(name changed to protect child), Do you know anything about our son’s legos… Suspect – You mean the missing ones? W – Well, yes. How did you know they were missing? Suspect – Well, I came to you house the other day looking for your son, and looked through the window (6 feet off the ground with an AC unit) and noticed that the big lego castle was gone. W- Yes, that is the one Suspect – I don’t know what happened to them 6:10- Suspect and Son leave to play tag 6:20-Son returns home full of tears inconsolable. All my wife can get out is ‘legos’. Apparently my son pieced together evidence that convinced him that Suspect was indeed guilty. 6:25 – Suspect knocks on back door looking for son to play. 6:27- Mom arrives at front door with 2 big bags full of legos. Mom proceeds to give boy verbal lashing. Boy claims that he did indeed take the legos from the front porch but did not enter house. He says that they were in trash bags, and he thought we were throwing them away. Mom figures out that the legos were indeed in the house, on the living room table, and in son’s bedroom and starts screaming at suspect. Mom references that ‘these people even looked for you while you were missing’. Suspect gets defiant and denies everything. Mom screams to get off the porch and get in the car. Suspect refuses and shows no signs of remorse. Victim now breaks down crying because he is afraid of screaming mom, and defiant son, and feels bad for suspect for getting yelled at. 6:35- Mom and suspect depart and leave bags of disassembled legos. Son continues to cry at everything. Starts feeling betrayed and hurt that his ‘friend’ would steal from him. Upset that his creations are reduced to parts. CASE CLOSED! Outstanding questions: What happened at suspect’s house that clued son in to guilt? Would Mom have returned the legos had the suspect not gone missing and we found him? Where did the other bags of legos in the suspects room (seen by son on earlier visit) come from? Should suspect ever be allowed to set foot in our house again?
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    Obama's solution to unemployment

    Open door policy
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    Child dilemma - Lego theif

    Good advice. We'll see what my son finds out today after asking if the boy borrowed them. Ironically, the first time our dog met the kids he chased after him in our house. My kids thought we had a racist dog. Turns out the dog just knows scumbags (assuming this boy was the thief). Unfortunately, the dog probably just slept through the home invasion.
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    Child dilemma - Lego theif

    So we are renting a house while our home is being fixed from a fire in the basement. The new place is a 6BR Victorian, very old, not very secure. Beautiful neighborhood, but the humidity and old windows means nothing shuts properly (doors/windows). That is OK, because we have very little with us. My 8 y/o son just had a birthday and got a few Lego sets of Pirates houses and Spongebob houses. He played with them when he got home from school yesterday. I had to take him to an afternoon class, and was gone for 15 minutes. In that time period, 3 of his new lego sets went missing. There are still lots of loose brinks on the table, but entire house structures are gone. Normally, we would suspect that he moved them, but he just played with them. As I was driving back to the house, I noticed a neighborhood boy who lives a block behind us. He has been in our house playing with my son, and also likes Legos. When I pulled into my driveway, he was walking back to his house from somewhere. Scouring the house, the only thing missing are the Legos. No money, no ipods are gone. I strongly suspect that a young boy walked in to our house with closed, but probably unlocked doors. I have one particular suspect in mind, who is about 7 years old, and comes from a poor minority family. Very nice boy from my interaction with him. What do we do? We can't accuse him of breaking and entering, but he would be suspect #1 based on his proximity to the house, and familiarity of the legos. We told our son to ask the boy on the bus today if he 'borrowed' some Legos last night. I suspect he will deny. What to do? The Legos are literally the only toy my son has right now, and the only toy he plays with. Any advice is welcomed.
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    Deadly hit on a soccer ref.

    Does he also play for the NY Football Giants?
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    Philly geeks

    Philly gets a bad rap. It is a smaller version of NY. Plenty of diversity, but on a much smaller scale. The people are generally nice, but have the Northeast impatience about them sometimes. Not nearly the same as NY, but not warm and fuzzy like the South. It is near everything you may want, beach, mountains, lakes, nature trails. The humidity sux bad, but you get used to it. The surrounding area is very nice, and the Philly park system is great for nature lovers without having to leave the city.
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    2011 Geek Consensus - FINAL RANKINGS

    When was the last time Tony Gonzalez didn't make the top 15?
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    Congratulations to Barack Obama...

    Time to kill another terrorist.
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