I'm ashamed to say that I can't recall exactly when my grandfather died... During the early 1990s, probably. The gap between his first visit to the hospital and his eventual death felt absurdly accelerated, as if only a few hours had passed. In reality I suppose it was really about two weeks.
Feeble [...]
Justin Blanton mused that there were 45 Starbucks locations within five files of his house.
I'm not sure where the nearest Starbucks is, but being a good Canadian boy I could probably rhyme off about a dozen Tim Horton's locations without exerting too much effort.
Inspired by Justin, I decided to find out for sure with the [...]
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The beard experiment has been all too successful. I've launched past the Bob Vila stage and am firmly entrenched in the hitherto unknown Jerry Garcia realm. A conservative estimate is 1.5 inches of length all around. The fact that my hair is also buck-wild doesn't help, either.
As an insulator the beard is [...]