you heard his voicemail message ... drop your ass ... pretending to be Bear ... and our posterior ... somebody else’s podcast ... decidedly non-Fabulous Food Show ... the disappointing baconator ... the Greenhouse ... really really good chicken wings ... conFIT for you ... maximum fat ... clams steamed with foie gras ... silky flavor ... Old Overcoat ... rye cocktails ... split the difference and call it 8:00 ... weekly pick: theoatmeal.com ... weekly pick: mylifeisaverage.com ... antipick: Darwin Awards ... channeling your inner deer ... the gift of adrenaline ... weekly pick: clicker.com ... verbally dyslexic ... castle ... Firefly dialog is delicious ... Kitchen Confidential ... totally different hierarchy ... weekly pick: 5-0 radio ... information needs to be free

Bizarro world ... let me ground you ... ground you for a month ... the whole multiplication tables thing ... gee/guy, whatever ... IED job ... expertise: the Internet ... I can haz your social security number ... another job I don't want ... basement meth labs ... I did say that, yeah ... home invasion robbery ... meaning of lynch ... white bodies from trees ... maps.google.com/lynching ... the watchers ... no, they were perfectly fine people ... make people chipper ... porno on a plane ... hackers mess with your ring tone ... mini visor movies ... weekly pick:  pixar short films ... standard dimensional portal  ... bugs bunny on 2 martinis ... rabbit of Seville ... bugs is the only character ... funny the pants off you ... post-golden age ... jump the shark ... weekly pick:  A Touch of Evil ... fmylife.com ... Ohio vs. Michigan wine clash ... weekly pick:  David Chang, “Momofuku” cookbook ... pho que ... weekly pick: Modern Family ... weekly pick:  Ryan Montbleau Band

We are puzzled ... it's Richard -- get him! ... Dave is on location ... 3 hours sleep ... wiki Rocky Horror Picture Show ... as adviser, facilitator, cooling rod ... all right now kids ... gourds from another planet ... colored disco ball on a pedestal ... I don't believe you yet ... would I make this up ... goulos ... amusing governor ... what an amazing coincidence ... directed f-bomb ... facebook flair ... press button, get bacon ... skreened.com ... meatloaf hand, onion fingernails ... weekly pick: Rocky Horror Picture Show ... weekly pick: museumofhoaxes.com ... weekly pick: mafia ... weekly pick: rereading LOTR ... Thomas Covenant just not that good ... Zanzibar Buckbuck McFate

Making it under the line ... a ten-minute show? No ... Skype on an iTouch ... JUST like Switzerland ... "I believe that's pig" ... the worst? Chicken ... seasons ... biking with children ... screw drives ... caramelized onions ... internet wine arrives ... the red savings button on the wall ... health care just happening ... NPR communicating effectively ... Obama v. Fox ... weekly pick: Superbad ... weekly pick: twitter feed, [poop]mydadsays ... weekly pick: iomega portable hard drive + Time Machine

Usually one more window ... validating your paranoia ... my house podcasting ... windows 7 shudder ... hiding in the closet ... killing your progeny ... a little bit to mock people ... consider our driving habits ... oops, dead ... confirm that in a nonce ... 14.5 minutes later ... not a bad way to die ... screaming in the back of the taxi ... amazing medicine ... caffeine drip ... this is the plan? ... frogpaste tube ... a mouth with 4 legs ... 90% of the free food ... food backing ... is that your car over there? ... I saw one and then I knew ... so I could teach it to my daughter ... the power of logic nomenclature ... thinking: it's not for everyone ... Hoosiers ... Bull Durham ... weekly pick: The Capital Steps ... mystery meat ... pairing wine with camel ... camelpaste tube ... camelducken ... weekly pick: Michael Sandel, "Justice" ... weekly pick: Midshipman Hornblower ... game of wink frog trying to pull a house ... me-shaped impression in the snow ... I made an angel on you

richard has a mac ... bear has no food ... cheap suite in manhattan, but he has coffee ... mini-me richard ... soviet style coffee carafe ... close encounters of the 3rd kind has held up OK ... some like it hot ... where is marilyn monroe? ... background music ... we're eligible for the nobel peace prize! ... taking the missiles out of eastern Europe ... realpolitik with Russia ... nuclear reduction? suppose it's going on ... Dave got up early to exercise with Cuddles ... weekly pick: "40 Year Old Virgin" ... weekly pick: "Dan in Real Life" ... weekly pick: Iain Banks' "Against a Dark Background" and "Youth of Weapons" ... his book "Player of Games" was also good, his characters are often flawed ... START talks slowly going on ... weekly pick: hotwire.com, good way of picking hotel rooms - rooms, coffee and a bed

no video ... no telepathy ... no bear ... no redeeming value to house of flying daggers ... no philip jose farmer ... no german film ...no tin drum by gunther gaas ... ok, das boot was good ... no hiroshima mon amor ... yes deuce bigolo ... yes full monty ... yes gods must be crazy pick ... yes chore o matic - valuing chores ... weekly pick - 3M command poster strips ... claim jumper chocolate cake - slice that serves an army ... full monty - big ass rock ... my name is Earl

puppy started ... new wireless Microsoft satan machine ... where-i-stans ... run a wire ... still 99.9% full hard drive ... mac idiosyncratic stuff ... Dell arm twisting ... mac vs. what? ... kibbutz in China ... nothing bad has happened yet ... ding dong mac immunity’s dead ... some special enmity ... among the mortified ... celebrated the anniversary ... brb ... switching between podcasts ... weekly pick: Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs ... weekly pick: Ponyo ... weekly pick: "Very Hard Choices," Spider Robinson ... losing your place tying your shoes ... empty bladder movie ... anti-pick: original Around the World in 80 Days ... they're in the attic .. simulcast MST3k ... so why tell us ... high volume of tomatoes ... that's not free ... corral your ivy

Potential for awkwardness ... no, yes, totally doesn't work like that ... peg leg, peg leg ... sharing monty python ... Brazil lite ... practicing an apology ... supernatural good looks ... I wish I were Carey Grant ... old Carey Grant fine ... Dorothy Parker ... pearls before swine ... or vice versa ... liked Ayn Rand ... is Nixon British? ... play Godzilla without makeup ... face-brand actors ... Meryl Streep as The Wrestler ... the President called him a jerk ... denial of service is wrong ... Astroturf grass roots ... enemies quoting you for amusement ... the last day ... thanks a pantload ... weekly pick: Cerebus the Aardvark ... hawk consommé ... the whole pig ... 0-ten is out ... ... weekly pick: the Vietnam humanitarian ... weekly pick: C.S. Forrester, "The Good Shepherd" ... and if you don't like the Beatles ... weekly pick: rockband, beatles

New version of skype death ... iPhone to iTouch ... iPhone tether ... there's unlimited data and then there's unlimited data ... clam bake! ... dinner for 500? No problem -- hey, where are the serving spoons? ... burned roof of mouth on best pizza in the world ... mystic pizza ... weekly pick: "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters," Gordon Dahlquist ... weekly pick: "The Art of Eating," Edward Behr ... weekly pick: flightcaster.com

And then there were 4 ... lightning strike damaging computer components ... Richard's working on the weekend ... there's causation behind every correlation, no matter how remote ... chocolate covered bacon ... dave's road trip ... lava beds and caves ... timber contests ... crater lake ... isolated ecosystem ... weeks without internet ... illegal wireless poaching ... Lincoln Continental roadtrip ... just pop out the brakelight ... electrical converter for the car ... roasting coffee and smoking chickens for a 50th ... not offending a vegetarian ... weekly pick: John Colton's Code Monkey song ... weekly pick: gapminder.org ... weekly pick: www.informationisbeautiful.net

jetlag starvation … neither family, religious, or camp … weekly pick: Star Trek movie … weekly pick: Dead Like Me

Recording in video (NOT!) ... Bear, Dave, and Mike ... sweat lodge ... lord of the flies in capture the flag ... Dave marshalling the tweens vs the teens ... agent modelling ... you can't handle the truth ... neutral experience with wasps ... oh the beemanity (http://tinyurl.com/beemanity) ... weekly pick: book "And Tango Makes Three" ... hide it in the non-fiction reference section ... Dar Williams ... bye Dave ... 60% chance of rain and hail ... he knows how to make mobile pizza ovens ... no pistachos on pizzas ... a well balanced pizza ... $14 hamburger restaurant ... 40% of the restaurant's costs are food? ... grass fed chicken ... weekly pick: handbrake, Mac software for ripping dvds to disk/ipods ... weekly pick: "Charcuterie" by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn - how to make pancetta ... it's good not to be kosher ... pink salt is nicely dangerous

up early in California ... up late with 7 lbs ... it's dave, not the pancake lady ... monty python flux ... more structured than phisbin ... wait, you haven't watched monty python and the holy grail? ... great dalmuti ... frog and the peach ... dave avoiding a cripping injury in capture the flag ... can't keep a good muse down ... to group sing the impossible dream ... thinking of finding the 'and bubbles' lady ... welcome to the IOU state ... buying alcohol in Ohio and pot in CA ... vice taxing to get out of budget deficits ... state employee furloughs ... not making hard enough choices ... weekly pick: pandora on the iphone ... weekly pick: iphone BART train predictor app ... weekly pick: monty python flux ... weekly pick from last year: catch phrase hot potato game

Cell phone contact ... being absent ... robotics camp ... Watercourse Way ... Prius mapping ... ``Turn around'' ... the cookery demonstration ... it's not waterproof?!? ... What did you do to the tomatoes? ... culinary Ohio ... farms in Ohio ... torturing grapevines ... weekly pick: George Taber, the Judgment of Paris ... weekly pick: gdgt.com ... weekly pick: Monkey, Folk Novel of China ... weekly pick II: The Language of Bees

Can we hear Dave now? ... Jon and Kate minus one ... a new reality show: the news ... Richard's back ... or not ... unscripted television ... running on county fair food ... better than bacon? Are you mad ... get out of the car of I'll tase me ... their ship of state should be unfettered ... you want to look in my BAG? ... do it again, do it again ... put them in a room with Lloyd ... gas mask training ... low grade current stories ... lighting the lightbulb in your hand ... Ripley's Believe it, OR NOT ... president ninja ... no-fly zone ... PETA: releasing flies into the wild ... what animal is too small ... releasing bacteria into the wild ... giant hypocrites ... antithetical to our way of life ... mortality reminders ... tragedy at the beach ... resignation of Palin ... enough rope to end the Republican Party ... picking on Palin ... strategy or just human life? ... not a very good strategist ... weekly pick: sendables.jibjab.com—hes_barack_obama ... weekly pick: Robo Rally ... go ahead and admit to a felony ... Tom said lackadaisically ... weekly pick: hypogeum at Malta ... weekly pick: The Coldest Winter, David Halberstam

It's not you, it's me ... Dave's all-nighters ... lying down in poppies ... Iranian voters ... winning fake elections ... last day of school week ... the Kindle DX ... Mike's daughter's texts ... iPhone etiquette ... snoring during conference calls ... Ohio wines ... dry wine people ... Gateway wines ... Pinot Noir ... tracking the center of the country ... strangemaps.wordpress.com—389-americas-mean-streak ... the gold bar again ... weekly pick: cellartracker.com / cor.kz ... weekly pick: Weeds ... weekly pick: Target ... the Ponzi economy ... growing food my steak eats

Bee-sting allergies ... you mean I SHOULD listen to the voices? ... public service message: OOTS ... weekly pick: hat trick of pain killers ... detectable back pain ... excruciating, crucifying pain ... mud boots ... clay armor ... you can rot in hell ... recording expertise ... 20th reunion ... surviving vs. not surviving ... a bullet dodged ... a bunch of do-overs ... what are your intentions with my wife ... anti do-over ... bigger kindle ... reformatting pdf's ... the beauty of European paper sizes ... oh, and what's on TV ... the wonders of two screens ... http://www.necdisplay.com/Products/Product/?product=34f0e2d4-795b-4c4c-964d-da99e85a39fa ... hitting your peripheral vision ... weekly pick: passiveaggressivenotes.com ... weekly pick: gapminder.org ... positively geektastic ... multiple datagasms ... weekly pick: http://visualizeit.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/visualization-in-sports/

Technical adjustments ... KMN, KMN ... stringing brain cells together ... oh, so I get to choose ... first concert post children ... medicine pantry ... compound fracture of the liver ... removing coin size piece of your skull ... turducken/trepanner combo ... night guy ... a lillet hangover ... just not plumber’s crack ... TV on the Radio ... deceptive Tom Stoppard ... the Hunger ... it was deliberate? ... weekly pick: howtosayin.com ... ``standing on a steet corner in Mumbai with an iPhone in my hand'' ... how would you squander $1,000? ... walkman? ... normally I’d be dead by now ... hexagonal bottle storage ... fondle an macbook air ... weekly pick: the gumption memorandum ... weekly pick: horrell.ca/file_download/7 ... weekly pick: Studs Terkel's Hard Times

Regularity ... one-hand Harold Lloyd ... safety last ... the man's completely insane ... boxee vs. roku ... get me out of here chewy ... convenience nukes ... really fast hand driers ... Pride and Prejudice, Bride and Prejudice and Pride, and Prejudice and Zombies ... Captain Jack ... weekly pick: http://www.vimeo.com/3519159 robert parker's [w]itch ... weekly pick: video of why my spouse is amazing at news.cnnbcvideo.com ... Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, especially TANSTAAFL ... Patrick O'Brian exacting use of words

Dave's connection issues ... Mike's 20-year college reunion ... going to off-year reunions ... who are they now ... restaurant prison breaks ... it's PG-13, Dave ... spoilers: Dave's kryptonite ... Kids In Mind: the half-empty part of the glass ... Netflix envelopes of doom ... I am Spartacus ... Firefly in XKCD ... XKCD's obscurity ... Spock and Heroes ... the cow in a can ... weekly pick: garagistewine.com, offbeat internet wine merchant ... weekly pick: Faultline, by Barry Eisler; The Last Olympian, Rick Riordan ... weekly pick: Star Trek ... stacking jello blocks ... Dexter ... Go ... playing chess in the park

Richard, just un-mute ... diasporadic podcast of opportunity ... philandering skype ... let's hear it for H1N1 ... ninja cat ... small pork industry ... they'd done a dry rub ... you heard him pigs, f*** off ... bacon in the rain ... every picnic should be preceded by a hike ... bacon explosion v. 2 ... whole more or less the sum of the parts ... making me hungry ... Sweet Sue chicken in a can ... foodnetworkhumor.com—a-whole-chicken-in-a-can-yummo ... curb teen pregnancy photos ... weekly pick: Chuck ... the iocaine effect ... chopstick switch-hitter ... I, too, am not right handed ... the world's most condescending server ... they're side dishes ... weekly pick: Beer Wars ... weekly pick: Bottle Shock / The Judgment of Paris

Dave and Chuck Norris ... Facebook Somali pirates ... pirates and kings ... taxes and piracy ... Daily Show and piracy ... cooler than beep ... not the armored suit zion ... ride 'em like you stole 'em ... cut it until it dies ... barcode hijinks ... urban iditarod ... cement cuddlers ... and wanted to date me ... facebook: the end of ``what happens on the road...'' ... there was this jello ... how did he know that was me ... how about a miller lite then ... weekly pick: the lychee martini ... lillet ... weekly pick: Pandora pay service ... weekly pick: ``The Windup Bird Chronicle,'' Haruki Murakami ... weekly pick: Zion national park

Richard in NYC ... Dave being blocked by Skype? Naah, just asleep ... Richard's Easter in NYC ... dyeing eggs ... the Mini-Me Egg ... weird, wacky eggs ... making Ukrainian eggs -- from hard-boiled eggs ... Ukrainian lobotomies ... Dave and Ukrainian eggs ... Ethopian ninjas ... Predators ... reluctant Predator pilots ... recruiting a separate geek squad ... dy(e)ing rabbits ... possum recipe ... garbage-fed possum ... why pigs don't play dead ... ramps as harbingers of spring ... twitscoop ... the hive mind vs. traditional media ... weekly pick: twitchhiker.wordpress.com ... weekly picks: TheMime, common_squirrel on Twitter ... weekly pick: City of Ember ... Mike's first 30-year reunion

Preemptively lost mike ... rights are left ... stuff warmed over, again? ... listener request ... brussels sprouts with Montreal steak seasoning ... fighting over the leftovers ... everything's better with bacon or nutella ... like a cabbage, but slimy ... to the bone ... brussels sprout confetti ... and on trucks ... and secretly gifted ... recipe for amber-something ... punk-in ... parsley cigarette ... [mangaleeza?] pig ... adorable massive pigs ... real good ... http://www.marriedtothesea.com/071108/tastes-of-the-swine.gif ... parts that are delicious ... gigantor the imperious ... make the crazy man go away ... Zathura ... we're meat ... I can see why they made this guy their leader ... yes, a sign ... weekly pick: Heavy Metal ... weekly pick: Castle in the Sky ... superpoop.com ... normally I'd be dead by now ... well, you know ... weekly pick: twitter ... follow my toots

Hung over around the edges ... a whisky pot luck ... we've got the 23 year old ... I feel like stuff warmed over ... the perfect cure for a podcast ... the Kentucky whisky run ... more edible, less magic ... this is not a highway ... weekly pick: Christian the lion video ... unwanted circus animals ... we're fragile ... lions vs. water buffalo vs. crocodile ... zombie water buffalo ... weekly pick: academicearth.org ... importance of lecture vs. whole course ... dead pixel in google earth ... sheep pixels ... pole position ... weekly pick: "Mistress of the Art of Death," Ariana Franklin ... weekly pick: Voyage of the Dawn Treader ... marketing Christianity ... wiping out the zombie competition ... Jesus is not a vampire ... random acts of kindness to quit smoking ... meeting the someone from the Internet ... weekly pick: Pappy van Winkle 20 Year bourbon ... Pappy van Winkle nouveau ... creamy, tasty, shifting, delicious ... always mirror sensitive data to an outside system

Why there's no show this week ... the dog zapper ... the origins of ``lifestrawed'' ... ok, really, no show this week!!

Working in notepad ... loading s l o w l y ... vestigial formatting ... little peanut mind ... hitting undo ... WYSIAYG ... cross between a bureaucracy and a juggernaut ... jug-ocracy ... cloud computing for idiots ... hook up your twitter feeds ... that doesn't involve my social life, Professor ... tinyURL crashes ... www.tinyurl.com/peanuts-sincity ... weekly pick: Important Things, Demetri Martin ... weekly pick: momix ... Tonga Room, Fairmount Hotel ... endangered tiki kitsch ... pencil preferences ... weekly pick: Pentel sharp kerry mechanical pencil ... the mont blanc we're-still-better-than-you line ... judicious use of the mute button ... muting in the dark ... all pens are mine ... filling up the empty spaces with pens ... the kind of clients you don't need ... roller-bowling-ball pen ... desk size mousetrap ... OOTS & ERFworld at www.giantitp.com ... NSFW ... World Trade Federation!! ... Mike's going to lifestraw us again ... weekly pick: www.positivityratio.com/single.php ... grandma clean

Logan's Run nakedness ... City of Ember ... amber habanero drinks ... nothing new in Eragon ... don't drink beer at a basketball game ... if it happens, they know who did it ... Mr. President you're not allowed to play ... we know you don't like beer ... earned a martini ... little house on the prairie ... bruce lee nun chuck ping pong ... weekly pick: amazing ping pong video ... rock paper scissors lizard Spock ... weekly pick: the Watchman, the book ... the Joker doesn't plan? ... quite a performance ... pear-Riesling yogurt ... skypuku ... ignore the spinning beachball ... smell of burning meat ... weekly pick: Rye whiskey ... anti-pick: Rī1 ... weekly pick: crumbled bacon ... anything without bacon tastes better with bacon ... weekly pick: roasted vegetables ... blazing vegetables ...Montreal tonsil sauce

Shovel-ready ... fired! ... too much email at the wrong times ... email productivity tips ... downtime's bad ... Disneyland strategies ... streaming Netflix ... Dave being seduced by BluRay ... the remote ... smart electronics ... giving a talk upside down ... weekly pick: SaiSuke ... Kindle 2 as Hitchhiker's Guide ... e-readers and PDFs ... weekly pick: Google street view ... weekly pick: The Queen ... weekly pick: Youtube seadragon tech demo ( www.youtube.com—watch ) ... Seadragon iPhone app

No charity left … breast cancer in you 20’s … no bacon! … block of could-believe-it’s-butter … live meat pancakes … one-choco-chip pancake … cantaloupe breakfast … raspberry pancakes … producing dinner without assistance … rolling eyes and back talk … funky salami … Mr. Wine … trixie and beef cheeks … one hardcore chickflick a year … weekly pick: Slumdog Millionaire … weekly pick: savory wholegrain breakfasts … pureed houseplant … oatmeal with poisonnut butter … kanji for breakfast? … Inez is unimpressed … Richard’s most shameful moment … anti-pick: Damage … weekly pick: Little House on the Prairie … weekly pick: LogMeIn.com

Karate practice in the background ... the neutronium board ... weekly pick: O Brother, Where Art Thou? ... where's Mike? ... Latitude: Google Stalker ... can Mike come out to play? ... not drinking, drinking only to excess, and getting drunk only once a year, but being three years behind ... recipe for a drunken Dave: Zombie and B-52 ... weekly pick: the Rock o' Matics ... you call this a mudslide? ... how to make a mudslide ... hacking the drink computer ... hangin' at the pub ... 867-5309 ... soothing the bartender burn ... bar charades ... why it'd be so cool if everyone knew sign language ... email from the President ... weekly pick: www.jossip.com—occasions-for-barack-to-use-his-bad-boy-voice-20090206 ... Barack, bipartisanship, and the stimulus package ... American solutions

tubing the half-pipe … magic carpets … turn the wii 90 degrees … hitting the ball is harder … inches of ice … call up the poet! … new Attorney General … no Bush pardons … never hold office again … legal bills of attainder … gerrymandering for fun and profit … 6th grade GT classmates … take the plunge: facebook … like you’re not Dave’s friends … online games are the gateway drug … friend or not … 13 to join it … evils of high school amplified … facebook rule … crab claw drumsticks … you’re all right … weekly pick: iShoot … weekly pick: keepvid.com ... best celery … I’m never going to know what happens ... weekly pick: wii karoke

Good morning all ... thank you, AT&T ... 4 a.m. voicemails ... Richardless ... Dave's mom's celebration of life ... golden coronas ... why the memorial was so long after her death? now I get it ... enough food that there wasn't cheese ... Dave's family's equivalent of a wake ... The Optimist's Creed ... Obama-ness ... Presidential tweets ... can't tell ya, can't tell ya ... the Plaxo virus ... the invisible splinter ... ``We are downtrodden!'' ... weekly pick: Flixster for iPhone ... Slumdog Millionaire ... Obama's executive orders ... unwinding standard operating procedures ... toasting the inauguration with Scotch ... lip-syncing at the inauguration ... swearing him in AGAIN ... Fox News: Leaping to the fore ... ADD Theater ... license plate NCC-1701 ... weekly pick: Rock Band for the Wii ... non-age-appropriate lyrics ... weekly pick: whitehouse.gov

Better stronger faster internet service ... lying about bandwidth ... memorial services ... didn't make it above zero ... snow cocktails ... a cocktail out of anything that doesn't move ... vodka infused vodka ... where are my gloves ... he thinks its cold ... world's largest sports fan ... layering for 25 degree football ... football from the crows nest ... thermo tourism ... air turned to fluid ... brain started superconducting ... a deer friend ... spit freeze before it hits the sidewalk ... ice would dramatically warm up the spit ... hit with both engines together ... well-placed faith in humanity ... a forest of porta-potties ... couldn't watch the rest of W's speech ... a sad spectacle ... we'll just feel better about it ... Road to Rushmore ... you sure you want this job, man? ... weekly pick: boxee.tv ... no, THIS is surround sound ... weekly pick: 4D theater ... weekly pick: mario cart wii ... weekly pick: adobe photoshop

Gathering the troops ... weekly pick: sleep ... the book was - twang ... the only thing they disagree on is foreign ... bring your own catheter ... party in our own state ... the golden ticket effect ... 7.2% unemployed plus 1 ... why can't a criminal behave honorably ... only a presumptive slimeball ... Burress' mausoleum resume ... wise man 'Tapow ... I did not mean Thieves Guild ... Bear’s 9th wedding anniversary ... ceramic elements in speakers ... apple TV ... terabyte harddrive at home depot ... chef: go nuts ... gin infused salmon ... rabbit wrapped in bacon – and stuffed in a duck ... Tintin wrapped in bacon ... that is sarong ... now you're in trouble because I'm full ... 4 hour later when we rolled out of the place ... cab the 2 blocks to our car ... weekly pick: Jackie Chan Movies ... falling up a wall ... weekly pick: Heroes ... TV episodes a la carte ... wireless solution sucks ... didn't they learn with Betamax ... weekly pick: Flight Explorer ... weekly pick: Fring

So needing a vacation from a vacation ... introduced to In-and-Out burger ... failed: unknown error ... a disgusting American food ... fast food for slow foodies ... flu, again ... never been so happy to have pneumonia ... 780 in a cab ... ready to strangle kittens ... beignet? ... new years at 9:30 ... the ball drop on You Tube ... extra man-I'm-getting-older day ... anti-resolution ... get round to it day ... relationship with a gym ... weekly pick: wii fit ... shoveling beignet ... Ohio: #1 in porn downloads ... weekly pick: Pandora for the iPhone ... Pandora needs money, badly ... weekly pick: netflix + tivo ... evil cable companies ... weekly pick bait-and-switch ... 81 degree doctor's office ... weekly pick: Don't Make Me Laugh ... weekly pick: Balderdash and Balderdash II ... doing pushups on a postage stamp ... the yurt

Choosing pi ... arbitrary units ... 2 half family-room-floors ... furlongs per fortnight ... the "hey-you" ... the Lingua-Franca ... an open source language ... and Tonga ... you're the one doing the writing ... teeter-totter ... now we can crush them ... super absorbent! ... psychic sense of misspellings ... video of the week: shoes thrown at Bush ... dude is nimble ... he put all his points into Dex ... volapuk expert ... weekly pick: "Spook Country," William Gibson ... my kid the ninja ... somebody else's problem field ... you handled like a Sherman tank ... sandy squirrel with bicep tail ... weekly pick: Luxardo maraschino cherries ... tuna-pork chili ... they go in – Dave ... to sneeze: stare at the light ... weekly picklette: chocolate covered oreo ... move-a-thon ... you wouldn't buy our crappy cars, so we're taking our money anyway ... weekly pick: move.rmi.org/features/oilmap.html ... second to last barrel of oil

A spate of birthdays ... babies for tax deductions ... the amazing race birthday party ... best reality show: news ... clear sound, for now ... kickin' ass and taking names ... nonplussed ... table that idea ... begging the question ... the question is wanton ... cleave ... decimate this table ... thank goodness it's only 1-in-ten ... food not so good, but the drinks! ... cheeky cocktails ... weekly pick: pinefarnia designed Simple Tech external hard drive ... weekly pick: evernote ... slicker than owl snot ... more nebulous than cloud computing ... ``The Mysterious Benedict Society,'' Trenton Lee Stewart ... the Thai iced coffee martini ... loving Thai iced tea

Job where you don't know if it is Saturday ... wife grinding molars ... all info through one pipe ... how I hate Comcast? Let me count the ways ... you're the problem, buddy ... editing: a hoot and a half ... lemming cast ... weekly pick: David Harrower, ``Blackbird'' ... Daily Show on terrorist attacks ... mother fishers ... pirates: rich comedic material ... classy pirates say ``arrrr'' ... punching above their weight ... not enough sea water in your engine ... jurisdiction on the high seas ... the polite thing to say is ``privateer'' ... due process rights on pirates ... my daughter the pirate ... escaping the Communists and pirates ... a remarkable place on the hierarchy of needs: need parking ... a body with no soul ... Glen Goyne: peatless single malt ... I AM from Thailand ... weekly pick: webkinz ... antipick: skype ... pick: California Academy of Science ... evil gifts for the traveler

Problems with mute buttons ... the neighborhood deadbeat dads ... artsy potatoes ... bacon covered turkey ... more bacon! ... pomegranate seed elevators ... astringent persimmons ... dream dinners ... the naked chef ... a time when people can't cook rice and beans ... consumerism run rampant ... not so funny money ... shopping without the kids ... foody fight ... buy nothing day ... waterboarding without the questions ... beering sensing part of the tongue ... dirty pretty things ... weekly pick: a water heater ... years spent in that pool ... a meaty thud ... death cold ... an uninterrupted supply of air ... third goal: stop making up goals ... weekly pick: Jackson's Wine and Spirits ... liquor store as candy store ... bottles have individual names ... weekly pick: Bob's 88 ... Brady Bunch moment ... weekly pick: ``Variable Star,'' Spider Robinson