It’s Max’s birthday and my parents’ anniversary!

Seriously?

My latest article is up over at How Stuff Works — How Carbon Capture Works. If you read it, let me know what you think of the idea. I started off thinking it was interesting and ended thinking it was pretty wasteful and potentially dangerous.

After the jump, see how things roll in my house. Also note that me cooing “good boooooyyyyy” is pretty much the only conversation I have, ALL DAY. Read the rest of this entry »

On July 26th, the geekboy and I will be participating in the Step Up for the Arc Walkathon — a fundraiser for the Arc of Hunterdon. I’m asking friends and family to donate some cash for this good cause. Any amount is fine by us. Skip that Starbucks for a few days next week and toss us $10. We’re not proud. We want your money! CLICK HERE TO DONATE.

Note: Make sure you enter TEAM FREAKGIRL as the team you’d like to sponsor!

Big Brother 10 starts on Sunday. Here’s hoping you got the bad taste of BB9 out of your mouth already. I begin every season with such hope…and I end every season with an elevated blood pressure and uncontrollable rage issues. Oh, Julie Chen, I am so your bitch.

This Sunday expect the ten incidents above to get short shrift from pundit after pundit, because after all Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut Obama’s nuts off.

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