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The 9 Month WaitThe Case For Not Finding Out the Gender of A Baby

Tom Coffee — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:58:02 +0000

Our nine month wait is almost over. In just a few more days my wife and I, along with our son, will be meeting the new addition to our family. We don’t know if our baby will be a nervous one or a calm one, if our baby will enjoy being bounced on a knee [...]

Sunny and Hot with a Chance of Armageddon

Tom Coffee — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:00:59 +0000

When you hear the phrase “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS)” you have probably already stopped reading or fallen asleep before you even get to the first joke. In case you aren’t familiar with them, the good pocket-protector-wearing people at weather branch of the NOAA are responsible for some of [...]

Good Morning, Sunshine!… Now Get Your Ass Back To Bed

Tom Coffee — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:53:56 +0000

My son gets a lot of things from me: his charming personality, his dashing good looks and his razor sharp intellect. Sure, he’s not yet four, but he can count up to 30 without leaving out more than one or two numbers and he has developed some stunning Candy Land strategies. You Bastard! Among the [...]

Give Me Mileage or Give Me Death

Tom Coffee — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:39:07 +0000

There you are, in a one-on-one meeting with your mentally challenged Liberal Arts major of a boss and he’s droning on and on about the importance of “covering all points of the compass out the box with the low hanging fruit” and “win-win solutions that push the envelope paradigm” when he suddenly start asking about [...]

Steve Job Owes Me For the iPad

Tom Coffee — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:23:37 +0000

Other than Apple’s blatant rip-off of my own iPad product from 2006, I (in agreement with most of the free world) was fairly underwhelmed by what Steve Jobs unveiled today. Let’s face it, the iPad probably won’t go down in the annals of history of computing as one of Apple’s more half-baked ideas, like the [...]