Ben Macdonald lives here.

Art Work of the greatest depictions

Ben — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:45:13 +0000

Suzanne Morris is an artist who’s canvas is painted with the colors and life captured from the scene’s illustrated. A couple of pieces I have seen are Eastern Coast street corners and crabs from the beach of Nags Head. They bring eye to the calm, enjoyable view of the scene that is most of the time unnoticed in everyday life.

You must see her work online, and then in person.

If ya see this lovable lady

Ben — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:52:27 +0000

If ya see this lovable dog running around knocking over your trash, your trash deserved it.

She’s a pound hound from the well run Atlanta Humane Society. Nothing can be better a better Sunday than a 2 hour visit to that doggy shelter.

Halloween Costumes

Ben — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:36:18 +0000

Always have to come up with a costume for Halloween. Wether is Pillsburry douhboy or Pirate and his booty they gotta be warm, snuggly, and mobile. A personal favorite is the Pills, and bending and laughing everytime someone pokes you in the belly adds to the enjoyment.

Ben Dreamin’

Ben — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:51:51 +0000

Dreams are great occurances that happen so often\that we don’t appriciate their importance. And with the fast pace life that most everyone wants or is acquiesce to they don’t remember or think about them. Dreams are the minds way of storing the recent knowledge of different thoughts, sounds, friends, and items that have not been used in weeks to recallable memory in your brain. So you may not be able to directly recall the knowledge or feeling or situation but when you hear that favorite song on the radio. It pops in to your mind the distant memory of you dancing the funky jig with the well rounded dance club beauty you met on the cruise. Awesome

Embroidery for all your needs

Ben — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:19:51 +0000

Advanced Embrodiery is a family run business that has put customers first for many years, and is personally my ONLY embroidery shop. Every time I need 2 shirts or 2,000 silk screen or embroided clothing peces, I turn to them for their fast, reliable service. For my wedding in Atlanta on a warm August day, we had fans made and delivered to my door step from Advanced Embroidery.

Too much of anything makes you an addict

Ben — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:24:17 +0000

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.

Can you win the big prize

Ben — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:10:39 +0000

In 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

Ben — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:28:26 +0000

A 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

Ben — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:27:20 +0000

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

Ben — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:38:22 +0000

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.