People who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate than those who get 8 hours of sleep. —From a six-year study of more than a million adults
"They think that scaring people about sleep increases...
Have you ever explored the artic regions? There’s some incredible stuff to see up there in satellite view, like icebergs the size of SW PA breaking off and flowing down stream… http://maps.google.com/?ll=80.319658,-86.594238&spn=0.282656,2.287903&t=k I had been looking at Greenland then I became...
Neat… but preliminary. It will be really cool when the new pictures come in form the new Mars orbital observer starts showing pics.. http://www.google.com/mars/ But this doesn’t have the high resolution of http://moon.google.com/ at it’s finally zoom level. Be sure to...
I’ve nothing very profound to say right now other than that it is really neat that I can sit here at my desk working on documentation (OK and blogging) while a little window shows a NASA control room live as the Mars Orbitor...
or Speaking of Bill Amend OK… While I don’t much believe in “channeling” and technically speaking Bill Watterson isn’t dead even if Chagrin Falls is fairly close to it… this is really starting to freak me out! I asked Bill about...
I sent these links to Bill Amend of FoxTrot fame (who is a really nice guy btw): http://www.grand-illusions.com/dragon.htm He’s made one and I’ve made one too. I’ll post some video sometime soon to show you how mine works. Here’s the example...
A man walks into a pub with a newt on his shoulder. He says to the barman. “Give me a pint of bitter and a whiskey for Tiny here.” The barman asks “Why do you call him Tiny?”. Without pause the...
Weird Words: Turducken ——————————————————————- A culinary construction. Many of us have heard of this gastronomic excess, which in the USA is associated with Thanksgiving and to a lesser extent with July 4. A chicken is stuffed inside a duck inside a...