My wife and I both like Guinness Drought so we were excited when we heard Guinness was releasing a special 250th Anniversary Beer. Arthur Guinness founded Guinness Brewery in 1759. The special 250th anniversary beer was a little hard to find in the U.S.; however, Wegman’s Grocery Stores and Total Wine both carry the product [...]
One of my wife’s coworkers owns two goats that she milks in the morning and evening. She was nice enough to give my wife a big jar of goat’s milk to take home. Good stuff. Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src [...]
The Washington Post reports: A train control system that should have prevented Monday’s deadly Metro crash failed in a test conducted by federal investigators, officials said yesterday, suggesting that a crucial breakdown of technology sent one train slamming into another… The findings suggest that the oncoming train in Monday’s crash might not have received information [...]
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Hi-tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis seems to be going goo goo ga ga over plug-in cars. Additionally, many environmentalists and politicians think plug-in electric cars are the answer to today’s problems. Potential Problems However, low-tech writer Kris de Decker points out some potential problems with relying electric batteries to power our automobiles: The electric car is [...]