Archive for October, 2008

My Jewish is “Jewier” than yours!

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 [...]

Snakes Alive!

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 [...]

Talk about your “Political Statements”

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 [...]

Quantum of Path

Taken at Lost Maples State Natural Area.

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 [...]

MTV music opens its vaults

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 [...]

Rock Canyon

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.
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