It's a chilly morning out here in the sticks; mid-60s in the house and I'm sitting at the computer working.  Yesterday I stopped by ...

I received this note from my mom a few days ago.  Before you read it, you should know that I am her oldest child (of four). If you are supp...

If you're a dog lover, you're going to laugh until your sides hurt.  If you're not a dog lover, why are you reading my blog?

This page has a collection of the coolest animated GIFs I've ever seen...

As I was saying the other day, there don't appear to be any adults in the room, up in our California legislature.  Consider this, from S...

Like you've never seen them :

It was a gorgeous high desert morning this morning: 55°F, a light breeze, very dry, and desert scents filling the air.  The dogs all did the...

For the geeks, a decoded crop circle : After transcribing the binary digits, I translated each byte (8 bits) into its corresponding ASCII c...

As you've never seen it before, in this photomosaic made of images from Voyager I.  From APOD, of course.

Man alive – I sure wouldn't want to be in the neighborhood when that thing exploded!  From APOD , of course.

...for the Obama Presidency is a Jimmy Carter rerun.  Glenn Reynolds (aka the Instapundit ) makes a persuasive, if depressing, case for the...

I'm speaking of our legislators , of course.  The Democrats, petulant that they can't get the Republicans to vote for increased taxe...

For a golf course in Richmond, England.  This down is just east of London, and it happens to be where my company has its London offices.  Th...

Air France Flight 447 went down off the coast of Brazil almost two years ago.  Yesterday robotic submersibles found and recovered the memory...

Osama bin Laden is dead.  Killed by U.S. Navy Seals at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan (look for the “A” on the map) – which is over 100...

Nice .

Via Maggie's Farm : A short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything...

Warren Meyer (of CoyoteBlog ) has an excellent piece in Forbes on the stupidity of high speed rail ...

Just watch it.  Via reader Dr. Simi L.:

Your morning political humor, via my mom: I met a fairy today that said she would grant me one wish. "I want to live forever," I...