The (Other) End of the Internet

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was talking to my older sister the other night - online, of course, since she’s now living in South Korea - and she was telling me about some of the genealogy research she’s done on our mother’s side of […]

Several years ago Daughter Number Four bought me a copy of Startopia for Christmas. At the time she didn’t realize that my computer’s video card wasn’t beefy enough to handle the game. That game sat un-played for months before I finally upgraded by video card. After that, it took about 2 days for everyone here […]

My brother just sent me an interesting web page. It’s at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/live_tv.html and, as you can tell by the URL, it’s a streaming video feed from NASA. Sounds like a really great way to watch repairs on the Hubble telescope and space shuttle launches without network television’s annoying habit of breaking in every 15 minutes […]

I like it when someone says something without thinking about the alternate meanings hidden in the way they’ve phrased their observation. I especially like it when that someone isn’t me.
The local grocery store (the one that’s NOT America’s Largest Retailer) advertised Boston Butt Roasts (as opposed to “ham”) for 97 cents a pound for a […]

Another idea just occurred to me that works well with the idea mentioned in my last post.
Pilots (virtual and otherwise) need charts (called sectionals) for navigation. I could use an image editor to create “discount sectionals” to sell to virtual pilots. Then, when the pilots get hopelessly lost and the flights are delayed, it would […]

It can be funny listening to a police radio scanner -especially if you live in a small town. Yesterday afternoon the police dispatcher called on one of the officers to check out a report of some cows out on the highway. When the officer got to the area in question, he called the dispatcher and […]

Something that was said at the breakfast table this morning (I fail to remember what) reminded me of a bad joke. When I said that, nobody wanted to hear it at that time. Therefore, I’m posting it here so that instead of making the 4 people at the breakfast table groan I can (theoretically) sicken […]

Since my birthday is in just a few days, I spent some time looking up celebrities who share my birthday. I found a nice list at BrainyHistory.com. Here is a small part of that list.
1. 1797 Kaiser Wilhelm I, crowned German emperor in 1871 after defeating Emperor Napoleon III in the Franco Prussian War.
2 1887 […]

Since my birthday is rapidly approaching, I keep finding myself spending time online looking around to see what sort of goodies are on sale.
This time I’ve found something that I’d really enjoy getting. It’s a SanDisk 4GB Cruzer Titanium Plus USB Flash Drive.
I have a 1GB flash drive which I use to store a […]

Daughter Number Two found this page somewhere and sent it to me. It’s a collection of pictures and articles about some of the most bizarre-looking creatures that ever had the audacity to be born.
Personally, I think the ugliest has to be the Blobfish. This thing looks almost HUMAN it’s so ugly!
Wait, that didn’t come out […]