I went to a very long info session today about my company's new Eco friendly waste disposal system. At the end of the session, I realized that the upshot was that we were all going to be taking out our own trash and whoever actually picks up the trash only has to make one stop per floor instead of going to everyone's…

I like shootouts too. I don't have the patience for sudden death overtimes and ties just suck. 60 minutes of hockey is plenty for me. I like the present NHL system a lot. Four on four hockey is always fun and then there's always a winner.

No, if there's a 4 on 3 and there's a penalty, they (in the NHL) put a player on the ice. It happened last week in a Bruins game.

I've always been a little cheesed off with USA Hockey for not setting some sort of geographical boundaries for national youth hockey playoffs. I mean, who cares if Little Casear's beats the Junior Ducks? Maybe some parents and a couple of college recruiters. I think that people would watch at a national youth…

Nope, the whole puck has to get over the line. There has to be white showing for there to be a goal.

I'm surprised no one caught the actual play call.

Pretty much. I feel like we're even for the Giants beating us but that's it. I think God still owes us one more.

These "cut the cable" articles also leave out phone service. My phone service from Comcast has been a lot more reliable than Verizon ever was.

MCT is a backpacking staple!

I got one word for you, Linux.

Mac and Cheese. The cost varies because it's one of those items that goes on sale frequently. If I'm feeling large, I throw in a can or package of tuna fish. I call it MCT.

eggnog + Capt Morgan's Spiced Rum = A very pleasant Christmas Eve

For me, checking the clock actually helps. I will fall asleep for some period of time and not know it unless I've been checking a clock. Once I realize that I have been asleep, I calm down a bit and that helps me go back to sleep. I wear one of those watches that glows in the dark all the time for this very reason.

I travel a lot and I use Google Maps constantly. It's probably the most reliable way to find a restaurant even in a city you are fairly familiar with. You might have to poke around a bit to read menus and perhaps cross reference with "TripAdvisor" but overall, it's one of my most useful apps.

It's a lot easier than dual booting.

Get the best of both worlds, download VMware's Player and build a little Linux VM to use as a second Desktop. You can flip back and forth between the two Desktops very easily. It also has something called Unity that lets you display your Linux terminals on your Windows Desktop.

A compass works too.

MA's got lobstah, clam chowdah and fried clams to die for.

An Oppo Blue Ray Player. You won't believe what you been missing.

I've found just the opposite to be true. If I don't look at the time, I don't know that I've been sleeping and I get worked up over the fact that I'm not sleeping. If I check the time, I'm almost always pleasantly surprised to see that it is two or three hours later than I thought, so I must have been sleeping. I…