Google’s page rank of benmacdonald.net is 2/10. That’s a safety and I only score touchdowns. Google is too busy throwing 10′s on every SEC fan sight. We’ll see in the end whose got the best ranking.
Archive for September, 2008
Too much of anything makes you an addict
Monday, September 29th, 2008Can you win the big prize
Thursday, September 11th, 2008In Family Fued the winning family picks their top 2 people to go against the clock answering how the “general public” most commonly answers to pop-cultured questions. Points are rewarded for every answer based on how many joes-on-the-street respond with the same answer out of 100. The two lucky contestants must total 200 points in order to take home the grand prize of $100,000. The points awarded for the most common answer is usually between 31-39 points or 31-39 people out 100 responded with the same answer. So one team must get all five top answers, totalling 175 points and hope that they also get in the top four on their other answers, above 5 points.
Tell me the “man” can’t load the dice in this game. And the fact that the Family Fued doesn’t publish the statistics on the polls and samples used calculating the points, you’ve got yourself a controlled outcome.
Monthly Budget spreadsheet
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008A great Monthly budget spreadsheet for managing your spending starts with your take home pay and then divides it amoung groups by percent. Refer to Dave Ramsey for percentages. Use the spreadsheet for managing your budget and for controlling your spending.
BGE, u-huh, it’s the grill from the big VA
Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Using the Big Green Egg for cooking/grilling/smoking is cheating at cooking. You may have the obsessive grilling personality of visually checking the look of the meat, sticking a fork in the meat and squeezing the juices out, or sticking an electronic thermometer that talks to you in it, but none of those practices are necessary. You can do all of the above with the BGE but your only doing it for looks. Food is best served from it with no user intervention. You put the meat on at the right temp, which is easily adjustable, and after the normal time: 10 minutes steak 400-550 deg, 15 minutes chicken breast 300-350deg, whole chicken 300-350 deg 40 min, 5 minute fish fillets: you are eating like kings.
We’ve cooked two straight – sequentially, we can’t really tell the sex habits of the chicken – chickens on it, and love it.
The Bald Spot
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
My good friend Brian Bald has his own blog at Richmond Times Dispatch. Huge fan of the Dead’skins, he grew up in the ‘mond, graduated from UVA, followed his team to D.C. only to return to glory in the city that raised him.