Now this is just plain cool ! Scientists have come up with what appears to be a completely practical way to use a special kind of star ( mil...

I've posted before about the unusually low number of sunspots we're seeing right now, and about the correlation between the number ...

In our back yard: You can see a higher quality version on YouTube .

Sorry for the lack of posts, folks. The past couple of weeks have been somewhat chaotic – I'm currently (a) holding down my job, (b) ca...

Read and absorb this: And that is why we should not revert to the foreign policy of years gone by, of the world weary, the supposedly sensib...

The fetching lass at right is Traci, whose entire involvement with this post is as a demonstrater model – for an interesting visual phenomen...

These are a natural phenomenon I'd never heard of before – the rare “snow roller”. In this particular case they were spotted on the Ida...

First, absorb this statement concerning Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse , the sole surviving pirate of the group that hijacked the Maersk Alabama: ...

Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent by dwarthy

From the Wall Street Journal : The kidnapped captain of the Maersk Alabama has been rescued and is safe aboard a U.S. Navy ship. Wonderful. ...

Debbie and I did a little four-wheeling today, in a beautiful area that was entirely new to us – to our shame, as it's very close to hom...

Though I'm not entirely sure what it means... From the San Diego Union-Tribune : The Jamul Indian band has dropped a lawsuit in whic...

A reader emailed me with news of a dog wandering around the area around Lyons Valley Road and Jamul Highlands Road – near the Mormon Church ...

Amber from the Steele Canyon Veterinary clinic writes to say that a male dog has been found near the Jamul Post Office. It's currently ...

I guess we're just counter-cultural and/or primitive out here in the sticks. Any miscreant showing his face at our home will be met wi...

From Sign On San Diego, an article that sounds a bit pessimistic about the prospects for the Jamul Indian Casino. From the article: Feder...

Reader Linda I. sent in this photo of a 3 foot long King snake that's just about finished with his lunch: a smaller rattlesnake. The on...

An anonymous reader sends this word: I just want to say about the whole Johnny Dallo situation that on your blog it says he got a year and h...

From my mom: There is a two-letter word in English that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is 'UP....