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TITAN!!!

I promised Titan and I shall deliver.  Behold! Wait…this isn’t what I remember.  When I saw Titan on the Border to Border Land Rover trip I remember standing at the base and the cab was almost obscured with clouds.  The

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The Unbearable Cheapness of Toys

There is a limit, toy-makers.  There is a limit past which you are cutting corners and leaving something which shouldn’t really exist.  Take for example a mermaid doll.  Sure, her makeup is smudged, the eyes distant and crossed, the plastic

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Imperial Minivan

My journey towards the dark side is complete.  I now own a minivan in glossy piano black that looks like a shard of Darth Vader’s helmet.  I have no qualms about driving this vehicle since it looks cool, drives like

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More Minivan Woes

There’s something about buying a used minivan that makes your shoulders slump down.  Maybe it’s because minivans are never “lightly used”.  It’s like buying a donkey and expecting it to be sprightly and have a straight back.  These things are

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Relinquishing Manhood

Ever since the car crash we’ve been driving around a rental car and trying to figure out what kind of car to buy.  Oh, I know, First World Problems, but we hadn’t been planning on buying a car and haven’t

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A Classy Wine Review

Here at Handmade I try to stay upper crust, pinky-lifted, East Hampton marble-mouthed.  In that spirit I present the first (and possibly last) wine review.  Being poured today is a lovely Trader Joe’s Central Coast Sauvignon Blanc.  Upon the first

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Chai: Solved

The great chai mystery has been cracked.  My previous attempts at making strong chai in the office, here and here, were foiled by physics (shakes fist at universe) and operator error (shakes fist at self).  As is so often the

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