Daily Archives: November 25, 2010

Special Thursday video break: It’s not the name of the restaurant, it’s the name of the song

You can get anything you want at you-know-where: I did this last year and figured I’d do it again this year. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Smoked beer can turkey

For those of you with an engineering bent and a large enough grill, I give you smoked beer can turkey, based on a popular grilling technique for chickens. Bon appetit!

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Ortiz concedes

No surprise. U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz on Monday conceded the loss of his 27th District seat that he held for nearly three decades. A recount netted him more than 100 votes in Cameron County but left him still hundreds of … Continue reading

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Another story about solar energy in Texas

They keep writing them, I’ll keep blogging about them. Dallas renewable energy investor Panda Power Funds is developing one of the country’s largest solar power plants in sunny New Jersey. Not Texas. And Texas’ second-largest power generator, NRG Energy, is … Continue reading

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