One thousand!

It looks as though this blog saw its thousandth visitor on Monday. If I had a penny for every hit, it would look like this: While it’s a far cry from the dizzying six-digit heights reached by global blogging megastars like Arjewtino and his ilk, it’s a nice milestone to hit. Looking forward to 10,000 [...]

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9 for ’09: 9 ways in which 2009 will manage not to suck

This is the start of a new temporary (maybe 9 days) feature wherein I make lists of stuff. So yeah. Reasons 2009 won’t suck. 1. New albums from Guster and Carbon Leaf They’re not the only ones, of course, but two perennial favorites who will be releasing new material for the first time since 2006. [...]

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State Quarters

Here comes the coin nerd again. My aforementioned childhood interest in collecting coins was rekindled due to the 50 State Quarters program, which has proved to be an unprecedented success in the United States. Starting in 1999, the US mints in Denver and Philadelphia began producing a new quarter dollar coin every quintile (1/5 of [...]

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Coin collecting

Here’s my confession, my on-camera reveal of my inner nerd. I collect coins. And I do it for fun rather than for profit. It started when I was six years old, and I think part of the enduring appeal of coin collecting is that each new coin added to the collection recaptures the feeling of [...]

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