http://www.scootutopia.com Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:21:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the left: The current 5-day forecast for McMurdo Station in Antarctica. On the right: The current 5-day forecast for Kansas City, Missouri. http://www.scootutopia.com/2010/01/how-cold-is-it/ Throughout 2009 I had drinks at 150 bars that I'd never been to before. Not a record, but still more than I expected to see. The bars were spread among 51 cities in 8 states. More than half were in Nebraska, with more in Omaha than any ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/12/from-the-peanut-to-gordon-biersch-my-150-bars-of-2009/ For the past 3 years I've have a small (30 gallon) saltwater tank at work by my desk. One of the first fish I bought for it was a blue tang, or "Darcy" as every visitor under the age of 12 calls it. A few weeks after I got it it contracted ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/12/my-freaky-skull-fish/ Wanting to get a few more bars in before 2009 comes to an end, I grabbed one of my brothers at headed east to fill in one of the holes in my map. (See also: Scoot's Complete Bar List) We started our Saturday afternoon in Grain Valley, where we visited a ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/12/a-few-quick-beers-to-end-2009/ Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. After this and this and this it's clear they haven't a clue about showing proper respect for the Flag. And now they're at it again. Pearl Harbor Day was a week ago. And when December 8 arrived, everyone else paid attention and raised their flags back ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/12/can-someone-please-just-take-the-jackson-county-courthouses-flag-away-until-someone-works-there-that-knows-how-to-display-it-properly/ The following question woke me up in the middle of the night last night for who-knows-what reason, and I pondered it for several minutes before drifting back to sleep: "Why do we have cole slaw?" I mean really, why does it exist? Here we have a food item that quite clearly appeals to ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/11/a-culinary-question/ From a KCMO press release issued yesterday: "The City of Kansas City, Mo., Public Works Department is alerting motorists that many streets in the Downtown and Crossroads areas will be temporarily closed at various times from Nov. 19 through Nov. 22. These closures are being made to accommodate the National Catholic ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/11/city-hall-shows-small-business-owners-who-the-boss-is-once-again/ I'm posting a link to a blog post that hits a nerve of mine. It's bad enough that the news story in question is doing a live, on-location report in the first place because it's live at a place where absolutely nothing is happening, that has absolutely nothing to do with ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/11/pointess-live-reports/ When Pizza Bar -- the replacement for the failed Vinino in the Power & Light District -- was preparing to open, the PR buzz spoke of skilled pizza chefs, top quality ingredients, and true New York Style pizza. Well, I suppose they probably do sell frozen pizza in New York.    Pizza ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/10/pizza-bar-blandest-pizza-in-town/ The other day I watched an old episode of "Criminal Minds" in which the team flew to Kansas City to investigate a serial killer.  As in Kansas City, KS... which was portrayed as the main city, "across the river" from the Missouri side. These two fallacies irritated me at the time. ... http://www.scootutopia.com/2009/10/kansas-city-is-in-missouri/