Take a moment today to ponder the magnificent courage our veterans have shown — and the sacrifices they’ve made — that allow us to enjoy the...

Do you recognize the artifact at right? It’s a U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey marker; this particular one on the peak of Cuyamaca Mountain...

These are some more photos from the hike that Debi and I made up Cuyamaca Peak this past Sunday. As usual, clicking on any of the will brin...

Spirit and Opportunity — the extraordinarily successful mobile probes on Mars — have now been operating for very close to two years. Not ba...

What an unpleasant way to start my morning — by discovering that every single one of the propositions championed by Governor Arnold Schwartz...

The hike Debi and I made up Cuyamaca Mountain on Sunday (see two preceding posts) had some unanticipated moments of beauty. In the two year...

As I mentioned in the post below, Debi and I had a very enjoyable hike up to Cuyamaca Peak this past Sunday. On the “shoulder” of the mount...

Debi and I took a hike on Sunday that we haven’t made for over two years — up the “fire road” to Cuyamaca Peak from Paso Picacho campground ...

These important questions arrived in yesterday’s email: Can you cry under water? How important does a person have to be before they are cons...

As we walk through the hills around our home, we see the scene around us change every few minutes. Familiar landmarks move around, change p...

Skippy (who hasn’t had sex for 220 days!) at Enjoy Every Sandwich, takes a look at the New Jersey gubenatorial race: As we all know, there’s...

I’m working on an electronic design that includes a fan to exhaust warm air, and a filter on the air intake to keep the electronics from get...

For the past seven nights in a row, Paris has been burning. You’d never know it from the MSM, but riots and other disturbances have been st...

This site keeps track of a large number of ships in near realtime, using GPS as the source of positon data. There are facilities for findi...

This is not an anaglyph, and you don’t need any special glasses to view it. You just need to learn how to view it, and most people don’t f...

It doesn’t take much to make our dogs outragously, completely-out-of-control happy. Here Lea (our seven year old female field spaniel) is p...

Details of the Iraqi political process are remarkably absent from the reports of our MSM — and that’s a real shame, because watching the Ira...

Alito is exactly the kind of judge that conservatives wanted Bush to nominate in the first place — and he’s exactly the kind of judge that l...

Despite the MSM’s incessant bleating about all the awful news from Iraq (killed! explosions! bombs! riots!), there really is a lot of progr...

Aren’t these just the sweetest photos? My favorite is the black and white kitties, leaning into each other with their tails “hugging”. What’...