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Football hurts me. Serious injuries. Still, who wants to play tackle football with me?

With the exception of an annual teacher-versus-student annual flag football game, I have played football exactly twice in five years despite my desire to play much more often. What I really want is to play tackle football, but as a man in his forties with friends about my age or older, this has been impossible…

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Wonder Woman’s invisible jet is stupid.

The new Wonder Woman film is more than a year away, but a “trailer” was released last week showing the first glimpses of the film. It got me thinking about Wonder Woman’s invisible jet. I hope the filmmakers abandon this ridiculous concept in this new iteration. While I certainly see the value of an invisible…

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Boy vs. Girl: Episode 11 – New Year’s Resolutions, Driving, and I WAS GROPED ON THE POLAR EXPRESS!

Episode 11 of Boy vs. Girl features a discussion of New Year’s Resolutions (and Rachel’s ridiculous resolution), the question over whether men or women are better drivers, and the story about how I was groped by a woman as I was disembarking the polar express, about ten feet from Santa Claus.  You can listen here…

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Losing can be so entertaining when it’s not you.

I’m not a fan of Jeopardy. Listening to other people answer trivia questions has never appealed to me, but if games of Jeopardy ended like this more often, I might start watching.  I love this. The dismissive way that Alex Trebek responds to the contestants is brilliant. I love it so much that I’ve watched it…

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What is sexy? (according to Jerry Seinfeld and me)

“Any reduction of artifice is appealing.” — Jerry Seinfeld I know it’s Seinfeld, and he’s not exactly the arbiter of sexy, but I couldn’t agree more.  My wife is as beautiful at the moment she wakes in the morning, bleary-eyed and pajama-clad, as she is when she’s dressed for a night on the town.  In fact,…

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The “I told you so” calendar. Armed and ready for 2035. I can’t recommend it highly enough.

For those of you who are unaware, I maintain an “I told you so” calendar as one of my many Google calendars. I can’t recommend it more highly.  Let me explain.  It has long frustrated me that people are capable of making ridiculous claims about the future with little or no fear that those claims…

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BCE and CE

When writing the date, I’ve started adding the abbreviation CE after the year CE stands for Common Era. It’s the non-religious version of AD.  January 16, 2016 CE01.16.2015 CE16-Jan-2016 CE I can’t tell you how much fun this has been. It confuses people. Makes them a little crazy. Upsets the apple cart. Causes their two…

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Finalized New Year’s resolutions for 2016 (including three new goals)

I posted my 2016 goals on January 1, but I always allow myself two weeks to make additions based upon the feedback from readers and friends as well as thoughts of my own.  As a result, I’m adding three items to this year’s list. They are: Launch a storytelling project that I will otherwise remain…

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