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  • Outdoors

Notre Dame To Cook Rice Today At 3:30 PM ET

  • UpdatedSep 12, 2026
Start time of Notre Dame–Rice football game; also, alludes to FBS teams scheduling FCS teams.

We clear up the start time of the Notre Dame–Rice football game. We also illustrate why some FBS teams like to schedule FCS teams every year.

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  • Books

Labor Day 2026: College Football, Sunflowers, and Reading

  • UpdatedSep 8, 2026
Notre Dame college football season opener, catching-up on reading, and blooming garden sunflowers. - Book: "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky - For readers who still enjoy slowing down long enough to think.

Labor Day 2026 included Notre Dame football, garden sunflowers, and "The Brothers Karamazov" by Dostoevsky.

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  • Food & Beverages

My Seafood and Parasite-free Greens Meal Plan

  • UpdatedJul 23, 2026
My Seafood Meal Plan. Northeast Ohio has had it challenging recently: heat, smoke, spoiled soup, parasite outbreak, and tornado threats. * Parasite-free Greens. * Seafood Meal. * Homemade Smoothie. For readers who still enjoy slowing down long enough to think. CounterIt.ch

I share my specialty seafood diet, with all the fixins, including parasite-free greens and a big, beautiful smoothie.

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  • Books

Is The Multi-use Meligun MG-22 Pocket Knife A Travel-kit Accessory Or Necessity?

  • UpdatedJul 15, 2026
Cover image for Meligun MG-22: A Multipurpose Pocket Knife. Connecting the disparate dots of Pocket-Knives, East Side Oakland, Dog Packs, "Fight Club," and "Notes From the Underground." * Behavioral Psychology * Moral & Cultural Degradation * Defensive Implements

Given the cultural and moral degradation in society, consider carrying a Meligun MG-22 multi-use pocket knife to boost one's outward confidence.

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CounterIt.ch is a minimalist personal publication exploring Markets, Machines, Midwest, and Musings—the recurring themes that shape everyday life and many of the essays found here.

Written by Joe, an Ohio-based Linux user and former Wall Street professional, CounterIt.ch offers observations on technology, business, philosophy, books, motorcycles, gardening, politics, the outdoors, and life in Northeast Ohio. Some entries are practical, others reflective, but all share a common goal: slowing down long enough to think beyond headlines, algorithms, and the constant stream of online noise.

The site was created as a place for longer-form writing and independent thought—an alternative to the limitations of mainstream social media and the fleeting conversations that often define it. Some ideas simply deserve more than a few hundred characters.

Although the writing is rooted in the American Midwest, the ".ch" domain is a nod to Switzerland and its traditions of precision, independence, and simplicity—qualities that also inspire the site's minimalist design and philosophy.

Whether you arrived here looking for insights on markets, technology, Linux, motorcycles, books, or simply thoughtful observations about everyday life, I hope you find something worth reading—and perhaps something worth thinking about long after you've left the page.

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