I like to think that using FOSS daily, singing its praises to everyone and filing out the occasional bug report counts.

1040EZ, $0, $0, $0, $0.

Taxes done

I had to check the username on this comment to ensure that it wasn’t me posting this. I’ve said these words verbatim.

devour indeed. I also had a recipe for fennel lemonade that I made with the tops.

Additionally, going out to eat has many hidden costs, like liquor tax in some cities on an already overpriced drink. Soda or Iced tea is $2.50 or more. Now add tax and tip and your $7 cheeseburger & coke is $25.

It’s not for everyone, but my family has been enrolling in CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) produce. It’s cheaper and local. Granted, I’ll get 3 eggplants in a box one week and I need to get creative to be able to use it, but that’s part of the fun. I’ve expanded my produce repertoire 5-fold and now know how to cook fennel.

This is like those sites where you just need that recipe for the Bloomin’ Onion sauce because you forgot one ingredient and you get the life story of the author:

“We were riding on horseback around Tuscany when my riding boot got scuffed by the buckle, so we stopped by a local cobbler to repair it while we listned to the church bells of a nearby…”

3 screens later…

“There was an Outback Express at the airport and I asked the waiter…”

“Horseradish” Oh yeah!

a friend of mine will eat the whole sunflower seed including the shell. This confuses me.

As Cory Doctrow says, voting with your dollar is a fixed game because he who has the most dollars wins. Not to discourage it, though, because that would be pretty hypocritical to publicly condem the same store that you shop at, for example.