Last weekend I was in Oregon for my annual 200-mile running relay. Every year I get together with college fraternity friends in a different location, and we run through the night, contemplating life, retirement planning, the previous year’s surgeries, how
At Michino-Eli Yamada, a diner in Japan, you can order oyster-infused soft serve ice cream, topped with soy sauce.
While that sounds like a truly awful blend of flavors (and a waste of perfectly good soft serve), the diner is
Who remembers the song, “Take This Job and Shove It”? This 1977 release by Johnny Paycheck spent 18 weeks on the country music charts and, while I didn’t listen to country music growing up (and still don’t, to
There are several fun X accounts that provide fun facts about maps. Some of my favorites are @amazingmap, @brilliantmaps, and @mapporntweet. There’s also the tongue-in-cheek @terriblemaps, which is also a fun follow.
All of these sites, obviously, deal with real
A dog in Nebraska shot a woman in the arm last month in a convenience store parking lot.
Police were called to the scene after a shotgun blast from a parked truck struck a woman walking by. The culprit turned
I flew to Washington, DC, last week and needed to bring scissors so I could cut and rewrap a bandage on my hand. The smallest scissors I could find were in a tiny Swiss Army knife that’s been in a
Joint employment can mean different things to different people. For stoners, it could mean a groovy new job selling weed at the dispensary. For rheumatologists, it could mean hiring a new medical assistant to check elbows and knees.
But for
According to the NYC Department of Transportation, there are just under 3 million free, on-street parking spots in New York City, Of course, they’re all taken, and if you want one, you’ll be circling for blocks.
But not if you
I was in Italy two weeks ago and visited Vatican City. Passport control at the Rome airport was annoyingly slow, but getting in and out of Vatican City – a sovereign nation – was surprisingly easy. Here is a photo
This is a photo of the sun setting last week over the Tiber River, with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. I’m not a great photographer, but it’s a nice record shot from my trip to Italy last week.
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