This just in from the New York Times via Boing Boing: bottled water is, in fact, no better for you than tap water. Hah! This from the person who just bought a 12-pack of Dasani water. But I still like Diet Coke better. Here’s the full article (okay, you may have to register to read…

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/* gripe starts Here’s a fact about me: I hate So Cal traffic. I long for a small town like Cabot Cove, Maine or Cicely, Alaska, where sigalerts never rear their ugly heads, and there’s always parking right in front of all the places you need to go. Alas, I’m stuck in L.A. and work…

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An entry of odds and ends! Okay, I know I’m long overdue with the home improvement/money pit update, but that will have to wait until I get the pics all together. Suffice it to say that the backyard is now a pile dirt and rubble with a trench running down it (imagine No Man’s Land…

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So can’t make this a long post. See, we received the new Harry Potter book on Saturday (pre-ordered on Amazon.com, thank you very much – none of this standing in line at midnight or waiting in some store line to pick up an on-hold copy for us!) and I have plunged into it. As I…

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We were out driving this morning, on our way to Pasadena via the 710. All was going well, and we thought it would continue that way, what with it being the 4th of July weekend and everyone having gotten to their destinations last night. And that was the case until we neared the 10 interchange.…

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Yesterday, for those who missed it, was Flag Day. Normally, this “holiday” passes pretty uneventfully. But now I have a whole new feeling about it. See, I’ve been eyeing a new digital camera, the Canon SD500, a nifty new offering that has a two inch view screen and 7.1 megapixels, packed in a very portable…

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