Harmonic Convergence
posted 29 days ago and has 4 comments
I read an interesting article online this past Friday. It was about today’s “Apple iPhone” shindig, and about the convergence of digital devices. I had been thinking about the convergence of digital devices ever since I saw a photo of the new MacB...
A Healthy Drink
posted about 1 month ago and has 6 comments
I’ve come up with a new, old-fashioned drink. It combines the highball, with the original Tom Collins, and the healing power of quinine from gin and tonic.
A highball was originally rye whiskey and ginger ale. Ginger ale is carbonated water with ...
A highball was originally rye whiskey and ginger ale. Ginger ale is carbonated water with ...
I Support Platypusian Values
posted 2 months ago, updated about 2 hours later and has 6 comments
Thank God for the platypus. Or maybe not. Why is it that when “creationists” want to claim that they are rational, they always assert that there is no genetic mutation or evolution, and, therefore, humans are not primates? Why don’t they “prove” t...
Human sacrifice is not a religious freedom
posted 2 months ago and has 3 comments
From the Associated Press:
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas child welfare officials say almost 60 percent of the underage girls taken in a raid on a polygamist compound in west Texas either have children or are pregnant.
Of the 53 girls between the ages...
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Texas child welfare officials say almost 60 percent of the underage girls taken in a raid on a polygamist compound in west Texas either have children or are pregnant.
Of the 53 girls between the ages...
3,000 !!!
posted 2 months ago, updated 3 minutes later and has 4 comments
Woohoo!!! I FINALLY reached the magical plateau of having my profile page viewed 3,000 times!!!
This is no small potatoes! *
I've only been a member since 1/27/07 -- less than 15 months! So that's 3,000 views in LESS THAN 15 MONTHS!!! Do the mat...
This is no small potatoes! *
I've only been a member since 1/27/07 -- less than 15 months! So that's 3,000 views in LESS THAN 15 MONTHS!!! Do the mat...
NOT MY FAULT!
posted 3 months ago, updated about 1 hour later and has 7 comments
I recently escaped near-certain death. I rode in a car traveling southbound (the MOST TREACHEROUS DIRECTION!!!) down the Pacific Coast Highway from a bit north of Santa Cruz, to a bit south of San Simeon. You should know right here that in an aver...
Pop Top
posted 3 months ago and has 2 comments
In talking with “young people”, I’ve found out that around the age of 35 is the cut-off for having a clue what a “pop top” was. As a lifeguard on a sand beach in the early / mid 1970s, I know exactly what the little “blades from Hell” are. It was ...
Academy of Forensic Sciences
posted 4 months ago, updated 1 minute later and has 6 comments
I just got back from my first trip to Washington, DC. From what little I saw of it (the meeting I attended, and the hotel where I stayed, were in Georgetown), Washington is a very interesting place. I went there to attend the 60th Annual Meeting o...
One Day in the Life of Tom Sawyer
posted 4 months ago and has 4 comments
The photo to the left is not one I was looking for, but it will do. I got out my box of old photographs because if I had a photo of Nick, I was going to post it with this blog. I didn’t find one of Nick, but of the three guys in this photo, Terry,...
The Chocolate Monkey
posted 4 months ago and has 6 comments
In some ways, I am not very sentimental. And in some ways, I try to be less sentimental than I am. I was never one to much care about Valentine's Day. When I have been un-involved, the day was a non-event. The 14th day of February is the day that ...
