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Resolutions

Wendy posted her New Year’s Resolutions so I thought I would post mine. Take the stairs to the top of The Lighthouse at least daily.  This seems like a really good idea now that building is only four stories but when the new tower is nine stories this summer, it could be a really bad [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for Really Smart People (2010 Edition)

You need a gift for someone smart, someone who wants to know about everything – what happened, how it works, why it all got started. Fortunately, the globally curious have a lot of hobbies which makes them kind of easy to shop for, even if you don’t always remember to sleep and eat.  Below are [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for your Husband / Father / Boyfriends (all of the men in your life) | 2010 Edition | Guest Post

It’s Wendy and I keep telling Jordon that he needs to stop leaving the password for his blog login laying around and he never listens to me.  As he said, “Bill Clinton lost the nuclear launch codes and nothing bad happened.”  Well what happened is that I am posting a gift guide for what to [...]

Last Week at the Outfitters

Here are a couple of things that I posted to the Outfitters last week that caught my imagination. Okay, for years I thought people who paid extra for Crocs brand sandals were idiots.  Why pay $40 when you can get the same thing for $7 at Wal-Mart?  I was in Sport Chek last week and [...]

March 11

As is the tradition around here, I generally liveblog the day to save it for posterity.  (2009| 2008 | 2007| 2006 | 2005 | 2003).  I didn’t feel like doing that today so instead I am going to play around with my Kodak Zi8 camera and shoot some video of my day.  I have a [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Wife (and mother of your kids)

Update: The 2010 editions of the Christmas Gift Guides for Your Wife / Girlfriend is now online.  Follow the link for more 2010 Christmas Gift Guides. Wendy is the world’s hardest women to shop for and the suggestions from Amazon Gift Central just inspired sarcastic mocking comments.  Wendy asked me to put together a short [...]

Gift Ideas for Men: Gadgets and other Geekery

Okay it’s November 1 which means that it is the official start of the holiday shopping season.  The team of helper monkeys at JordonCooper.com are here to help and will be publishing holiday gift guides for men once a week during the month of November which will give you no excuse for having to do [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for the Emotionally Distant Father

A friend of mine/arch-nemesis has drawn her father and father-in-law for this year’s Christmas celebration and demanded a Christmas gift guide for them.  While I am generally compliant towards requests from friends who have incriminating stories about me, this one is a hard one as I don’t have a relationship with my dad * and [...]