An international symbol for marriage... We're told that the United Nations has approved this new, official international symbol for marr...

Periodic atmospheric pressure variation... At right you see a chart of the past week's barometric pressure at our home. There is a regu...

The chart at right shows the temperature (red line) and relative humidity (green line) at our home for the past week. You can see a three-d...

IBM on the " Java urban legend " of poor performance: Pop quiz: Which language boasts faster raw allocation performance, the Java ...

"What on earth is this?" was my first reaction to seeing this comic. It's horrible looking, and when you read the text, you d...

The two fires that burned near us for the past few days are nearly out. As best we can tell, the danger is over. Whew!

Last night, President Bush gave a speech at the National Endowment for Democracy. The entire conservative blogosphere seems to be abuzz abou...

Today's Wall Street Journal has a commentary piece called " The World is Flat " ($) that endorses and encourages the notion of...

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has a public web site , with news, photos, and commentary. I've added it to my daily reading list. A...

Well, there's good news and there's bad news on the fire front... Yesterday the big concern was the " Border 50 " fire, do...

Yesterday I wrote about a fire that started south of us, near Tecate. We were concerned at the time because of the prediction of Santa Ana...

Claudia Rosett has a new column up at the OpinionJournal, aptly titled The Good China . In it, she contrasts the United Nations — that bast...

The California Department of Forestry (CDF) fire-fighting planes are flying right over hour house on their missions to and from the Border 5...

But perhaps not in the manner you're thinking. Check out this report from FEMA member Jodi Witte: Dear Friends and Family, I just got h...

Reading Big Lizards (a highly recommended activity) this morning, I discovered a new poll on Schwartzenegger's five initiatives that has...

After my last post on lunar librations , my dissatisfied friend was still dissatisfied. He said: Okay so my intuition failed me wrt to the...

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, the...

Alika is one of our cats — our newest cat, as a matter of fact. You can read all about him , and be subjected to more cat pictures than any...

We have a couple of pampas grass plants in our front yard that are blooming right now. The picture at right shows the flowerhead of one aga...

You can count my wife and I amongst those with very strong attachments (some say unreasonably so) to their four-footed friends. In our cas...