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Naomi is a longtime skeptic and agnostic. She works as the technical director of an energy company that specializes in natural gas processing technologies. She has also raised two good-looking skeptical sons. She blogs about nothing at www.twodifferentgirls.com

• Friends and Flying Pigs

  By Geek Goddess on March 3, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  One of the things I love about my friend Kitty is her eye for detail. When we travel together, her photos are filled with details – a cat sunning in a rustic doorway, a child with a dripping cone –… Read More ›

• Fine Dining in Oil Country: Detours

  By Geek Goddess on March 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  The second night in our Quest to Try Every Restaurant in Weyburn, SK During the Coming Year, occurred after a long day of slogging through detailed design drawings with our review team, supplemented by a catered Chinese lunch. One of… Read More ›

• Fine Dining in Oil Country: Smitty’s

  By Geek Goddess on March 2, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  Smitty’s is a chain restaurant in Canada that is somewhat equivalent to Denny’s in the U.S.   The menus are enclosed in plastic and consist of fairly generic North American choices. Since I tend to avoid carbs (my exception is Chunky… Read More ›

• Dried and Fried, or, Fine Dining in Oil Country

  By Geek Goddess on March 1, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  So I’m spending a a few days outside of lovely Weyburn, Saskatchewan (“the Opportunity City”)  doing some work related to the oil business. I’ll be here several times over the next year, so I’ll have the opportunity (there’s that word… Read More ›