Barn: the foundation wall is poured!   After all these weeks of waiting, now the barn construction seems to be proceeding at a breakneck pac...

The most trusted name in news...   This is, I'm told, an actual screen capture of a CNN broadcast. One hardly knows what to say...

Barn: the foundation wall is underway!   In the photos below you can see the outer side of the form being constructed, and the rebar reinfor...

Comet 67P close-up...   Rosetta has returned a couple of high-resolution images of comet 67P – the best images ever obtained of any comet...

“But under the guise of enabling innovation, the agency is making an already complex regulatory climate even harder to navigate.”   The stor...

Barn: the first concrete is poured...   Just after I published the last post, I heard a terrific buzzing from my back yard.  It was the vibr...

Barn: things are happening quickly all of a sudden!   This morning the builders laid out the location where a trench needed to be dug (for t...

“Cha-ching!” GOP balks, House Democrats move to impeach Obama ...

Martian rocks ... new images from Curiosity ...

Rosetta arrives at Comet 67P ... and successfully enters orbit around it (the photo at right is one of the first high-resolution images r...

Punctuation can be important...   More examples of the importance of language “trivialities...”

“It looks really ancient!”   So declares a modern kid, upon being presented with a ... typewriter. They'd probably say that about me...

The last balls standing...   The nanny state vs. the balls ...

Barn: elevations...   Mere seconds after I posted the last entry, the barn builders showed up to “stake out” the barn and to take “elevation...

The barn begins!   A loader came out yesterday and scraped off a (roughly) foot of topsoil from the area where our new barn will be built....

Some new vacation posts are up...   I know, I know, I'm way late putting these up.  Here they are .

Clearly we need a continuous delivery system for ibuprofen...   Details here .

“...this is a case when that font of all quackery, New World Order conspiracy theories, and utter lunacy, NaturalNews.com, is less deluded t...

Hey!   Friend, reader, former colleague, owner of the largest car in the universe, and Idaho mogul-of-everything Doug S. passed this along...

Farmers are different...   Reader Jim M. passes this one along: When you're from the farm, your perception is a little bit different. ...