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Is Williamsburg the Most Underrated Golf Destination in America?

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If you've got a considerably large amount of money burning a hole in your pocket (refund check anyone?) and you need a coat, you can stop looking right now because this is it. Made from durable Gore-Tex with fully taped seams, it's engineered like a rain coat. Obviously, this doesn't…

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Log Salt and Pepper Shakers

We could get used to living in the wilderness for a short period of time.  Yeah, we’d eventually miss our Wi-Fi, Apple products and copy of Black Swan on DVD (certain scenes at least) but we’d enjoy living off the land for a portion of our life.  We could even…

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Tron: Legacy on DVD

Tron: Legacy presents a bit of a dilemma for us.  Aside from the times when we are, you know, actually watching it, we’ll have a hard time walking by a television on which it’s playing without stopping and watching.  Its attack on us is threefold.  First, the visuals are far…

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The History of American Graffiti

If we grew up hundreds of years ago we probably wouldn’t think of an overpass as a canvas for a piece of art.  (In part because there were no overpasses.)  However for as long as we can remember, we’ve liked our art like we’ve liked a lot of things in…

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Back in woodshop we used to take pieces of previously used lumber and construct various home furnishings that we would try and pass off as gifts for family members.  If we built them ourselves no one could complain that their end table wobbled or the drawer on their nightstand was…

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