“This is future crap, isn’t it?”*

The news today about a laser project that could lead to nuclear fusion technology blew me away. This is really the holy grail of mass clean energy. No environmental or radiation hazards, and it produces much more energy than it requires. In a radio interview I heard today, once of the researchers said the laser [...]

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Car meets storefront on video

Check out this video of a car crashing into the storefront at Springfield Music, a retail store. Apparently a medical condition caused a woman to do this. It’s pretty dramatic. My favorite part is that the guy at the register is just tapping his fingers being bored. The next second the whole store around him [...]

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WTF (What the Fox) again

Want to see some awesome editing? Check out this Fox clip! They use a tape of Joe Biden from six months ago where he slams infamous McCain quote “the fundamentals of the economy are strong” while on the campaign trail and try to pass it off as if he said it yesterday. Seriously. They apologized [...]

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Great essay on newspapers and now

Links to this essay/blog post by Clay Shirky have been circulating on the Web for the past several days, and for good reason. It’s a great read about what’s happening to newspapers right now. The gist: We don’t know what will replace the old model that the Internet has broken, only that it’s broke and [...]

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Worst day ever!

So today was terrible! I spilled soda all over the inside of my zebra bag, tapped a car on campus and had to redo a magazine. So now I’m researching how to get the Diet Dr Pepper out of the purse – I had some bleed on the black stripes and a soda stain all [...]

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Fine Sprangfiel’ cuisine in the NYT

The New York Times’ food story this week is about cashew chicken’s birth in Springfield. Interesting read. My friend Kelly Knauer is quoted, too.

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Cheeseriffic

So I decided to give up cheese for Lent. No, I’m not really religious. It’s a combination of having borderline high cholesterol (about 114) and wanting to challenge myself. Maybe I’m just bored. Some people have said they thing it’s a weird thing to give up. But I really like cheese. Really. I’m the type [...]

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Wonderful Weather

It’s been gorgeous here in Springfield the last few days. We’ve had our windows open and my mood has been as high as the temperature lately. When I got home from work last night I had no TV, no radio, and no music on, but the windows were open as I sat at the computer [...]

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All a-twitter

I know we haven’t been posting here much. I’m going to try to rectify that in the near future. I’d like to try to get on a writing schedule, but we’ll see. I used to enjoy writing and want to do it, but I really think that working at the paper squeezed much of the [...]

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