Posted by The Perfessor 10 30th, 2008
So I was reading the Jewish publication, Forward this morning and I came across an interesting article about the relative “Hebrewness” of the names of the Presidential candidates.
Now, before I go on, I’m going to both quote from this article and link to it, but as it refers to Hebrew words, letters. and punctuation, it [...]
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Posted by Walt 10 30th, 2008
The pic of the snake I caught about twenty feet behind our cabin in the State Park we stayed at. The stream was a concrete stream that was fed by the water coming off of the Freakishly Large Pool the park is built around, and leads to the nearby desert swamp. Several biologists [...]
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Posted by The Perfessor 10 29th, 2008
I haven’t always been a huge fan of Halloween, but (when my kids were younger) we took to decorating up our house bigtime. It was a load of fun, but as time dragged on, it became more and more tedious, so eventually we gave up. Still, I can appreciate that others are still big fans.
Including [...]
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Posted by Walt 10 28th, 2008
Taken at Lost Maples State Natural Area.
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Posted by Walt 10 28th, 2008
Since Indiana has this little law outlawing taped messages being played to you when you pick up the phone (”Robocalls”), about 30-40 workers walked out of a call center after refusing to read an anti-Obama script
Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job [...]
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Posted by Walt 10 28th, 2008
In celebration of MTV opening up its video vault (MTVmusic.com) to the moldy oldies of the 80s and beyond, here’s a song that I loved when it first came out, but never ever did get to see the music video for. Many of the music videos of this time were simply not funded well [...]
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Posted by Walt 10 27th, 2008
This one was taken about six miles into an 11 mile dead end road. The canyon got a good bit tighter as the trip went, but it was pretty difficult to take one picture to take all that in. Some of the best canyon pics are taken from a distance.
For [...]
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