Over the holidays I helped my dad make some BBQ using his new smoker, and it turned out really well! Smoking a pork shoulder isn't too terribly difficult, the tricky part is getting the smoker set up so that the temperature is stable, getting the rub on the meat right, and then just being patient…
In 2004, a documentary called Super Size Me came out, and changed many people's views on fast food. In it, Morgan Spurlock, a fairly average man, decided to see what happened when he ate nothing but McDonald's for a month. The results were striking: he experienced a 24 pound weight gain, lower energy, higher cholesterol, mood…
Milton Friedman was a Nobel Prize winning economist who lived from 1912-2006. His economic philosophies relied heavily on economic freedom and laissez-faire capitalism. He was the economic adviser to the Reagan Administration, and made numerous contributions to the field of economics during his lifetime. Upon hearing that he was the economic adviser to Reagan, many…
A friend and I were reminiscing about college one time, and of course since we were both engineers the topic quickly got to what was the worst we had ever done on a test. He joked that whenever he or his friends got close to a 50% on a test they would reassure each other…