“Would you marry the same person again?” This was the question that Readers Digest posed to readers in an international poll conducted in 15 countries. The survey concluded that 68 percent of all respondents would say “I do” again to their spouse. Surprisingly, it was only slightly lower in the United States at 63 percent. The same survey over at Answer.com has a much more depressing result, revealing that only 29% of respondents would pick the same spouse if they had to do it over again. I …

for my Winter Olympics addiction, (which included an overwhelming desire to spend $3000 on an authentic curling stone) what does Universal Sports go and do? They start broadcasting the 2010 Paralympics from Vancouver, BC. Now I have seen a few of these sports before, like sit skiing, but how about “Giant Slalom for the Visually Impaired?” And if you haven’t ever seen Sledge Hockey, you have not fully lived your life. It is a downright awesome sport. If you don’t think these guys take their hockey seriously, …

On all of my drives back and forth between the ATL and the AUB (don’t ask) this week, I kept hearing about the trials and tribulations being heaped on Toyota due to sticky gas pedals, faulty brakes, and general all around failure to move swiftly enough to keep from being just the right whipping boy that American manufacturing has been needing for a long time. It has to be a “funny” place in which Toyota finds itself; I still remember from childhood those slightly unnerving commercials that …

A couple of days ago I was reading an article in the New Yorker where the author used the word “recursion.” I wasn’t quite sure what it meant (seems I remember something about two mirrors facing each other?) so I did what I always do: I Googled it. At the top of the search page Google asked, “Did you mean: recursion” as it always does when it thinks you have misspelled the word or phrase for which you are looking. Since I am such a bad …