News and Opinion from the Bug!
You read it right… Golden Corral has stunned Raleigh area residents by serving up a smorgasbord. Buffet is the normal, run-of-the-mill word we Americans use to describe a restaurant serving multiple, eat-all-you-want dishes. However, “buffet” doesn’t do justice to what Golden Corral has done at its Glenwood Ave. store. Many months ago, Golden Corral demolished [...]
This camel-based gunship packs quite a wallop: How does that old ad go? “I’d walk a mile to smoke a …” Image courtesy of David Bugnon.
Lazamataz says the Onion is shutting down: The Onion, the United States oldest and most revered satirical newspaper, first published in 1756, has announced that they will close their website and cease all publishing activities, effective immediately. Said the owner, “No more satire is possible. Nothing can beat the outrageousness of what comes out of [...]
I just wanted to put up a quick post this evening regarding my current sound system’s 17th anniversary. Back in 1993, I purchased a Yamaha RX-360 receiver and two Bose 301 Series III speakers never dreaming they would still be in business 17 years later. It’s been an awesome system and still is. I also [...]
I stirred up a wonderful batch of habanero egg-salad today. My child shared a sore throat, fever, and congestion with me, which we’re just getting over. I thought the spicy egg-salad might help. I ate it and was like, wow! This stuff is really good. All I did was mix chopped, boiled eggs with Duke’s [...]
Here’s an interesting animal question to end a snowy Saturday: What does a cat, a German Shepherd, and a Newfoundland have in common? They’re all one big happy family! How it came about I do not know, but one evening, my brother-in-law went to feed his two dogs and discovered that a stray cat had [...]
Have you tried Zipfizz? I bought a box of grape flavored Zipfizz today from Sam’s Club. I drank a bottle of water that had Zipfizz mixed into it while I shopped. Prior to drinking it, I had felt fatigued but seemed to feel much better afterwards. Psychological effect? I don’t know, but I’ll find out [...]
I just had a new Trane heating and cooling system installed yesterday. It’s the Trane XV95 (furnace) and the Trane XR15 (a/c). The Trane system replaces an old Carrier system. The Carrier furnace had a hair-line crack in the heat exchanger. The entire system had seen its best days. We believed that buying a new [...]
My wife complained loudly this morning about the price increase on the Thanksgiving edition of our local paper. It was a sharp increase, but I explained to her that a drowning man grabs for anything…
