The “Curiosity” rover which landed on Mars last month has been hogging the limelight of late, but the “Opportunity” rover which landed on Mars back in 2004 is still active and still getting things done. Continue reading
You guys seem a little tense. Sit back. Relax. Let Fred Astaire dance your cares away. Continue reading
Yes, that is indeed RuPaul you see there. Now 51, he hikes all over Los Angeles (he seems to favour Franklin Canyon), where he now lives. He also cycles, swims, dances, roller-skates, beach-walks, threadmills and does yoga. At 40 he quit smoking, part of his realisation that if he wanted to be around for the long haul, he’d better start working on keeping fit.
At our house, hikes go by the more reasonable name of taking a walk. It’s really hilly here and I (whiny voice) hate hills.
Marco? Polo! Fish out of water? No! Continue reading
Have you ever made something better than it was? Painted a wall, remodeled a bathroom, restored a car, cleaned up a rusted old piece of junk, went on a body transformation mission? Post a picture here. Bonus points for before and after. Continue reading
Apparently the French have decided to wage war on PR reps and Kate Middleton’s boobs. All in a day’s work, eh? Haha? Well, okay that would be ascribing to a petty stereotype about the French being self-involved, ego-maniacal, loo-loo birds who go around slapping people, smoking cigarettes out of filters and reveling in the occasional bit of co-opted nudity. Er, okay. Most of that happened this week. Continue reading
Remember Jimmy Carter and how he told us all we should put on a sweater?* Jimmy Carter was an awful president, you guys, and everyone knows that.
It couldn’t have been Jimmy Carter who brokered the Camp David Accords, because the Camp David Accords brought a real and lasting peace between Israel and Egypt for the last 34 years, and, again, Jimmy Carter was an awful president who never did anything and should have stuck to peanut farming and communist coddling and just left the sweater-wearing-exhorting to the adults, the Republicans, duh. Continue reading
Ponzi didn’t think big enough, Michele Bachmann speaks the truth, House GOP actually ends welfare reform work requirements, what’s the matter with Kansas, #romneylies, #romneystrength, Obama the Fiscal Conservative, the vast liberal-Islamist-Wall Street-Media-Hollywood conspiracy according to Rush, Rand Paul singlehandedly shuts down the government, the Gini index, Eric Cantor: Closet Keynesian, and #romneyshambles. Continue reading
Am I eligible for an iPhone 6 upgrade? That’s the question everyone is asking themselves today. If you’re jonesing for a new iPhone, Droid, Galaxy, One, Windows Phone or even a flip phone but you’re not sure if your cell provider will give you a sweet, sweet subsidy then here is how to instantly and easily check your upgrade eligibility. Continue reading
The lines between traditional publishing (with a proper editor), self-pub and just plain printing are getting ever more blurred.
As you can tell by the title of this post, I’m tending to regard them much like a cat who is seeing a new puppy introduced into the household. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Will it wreck the joint? Continue reading