Categories

Green Monster

With all of the rain that we have been having, plus the fact that it is spring and things grow in the spring, the ranch has changed from a brown looking land to a green flourishing land.  Unfortunately, this means that we can not see where we are walking while walking around a lot of [...]

Freakin’ Cold!

Linda’s friend Shay took Linda and I to the Kerrville Folk Festival Thursday night.  Shay went to it many a times back in the day (the festival started in ‘72) but had not been back for a long time.  Some friends of hers that she met when she used to go were playing Thursday night [...]

Funny movie review

I was reading a review of a new iPhone app called RunPee that will “tell you what are the best parts to leave the movie for a few minutes, so you can run to the loo”.  It is amazing what people will come up with.

Anyways, the reviewer made a comment about the Terminator movie that [...]

Net Neutrality Article

Found an article on the Guardian website about net neutrality that I thought had some good talking points:

…ISPs would also like to be able to arbitrarily slow or degrade our network connections depending on what we’re doing and with whom. In the classic “traffic shaping” scenario, a company like Virgin Media strikes a deal with [...]

Where the wild things are

The other day I went for a drive on the country roads and saw lots of sheep, goats, deer and cows.  The most terrifying animal I encountered was a dachshund dog (aka, wiener dog) charging at me.  Well, ok, not terrifying – amusing.  The sight of the little dog running free on its ranch with [...]

Ming Boggling, with video

In an earlier post I talked about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.  I came across a serires of videos that a group at VBS.TV put together that details their journey of sailing from California to the garbage patch and talking with researchers/scientists along the way about the patch.  The videos give you a much better [...]

2/3rds of salary to taxes and happy about it

According to this article, people in Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands are the most content in the world.  Surprisingly, one of the common denominators with these countries is the amount of taxes their people pay and what they get in return.

Proud to be an alum

Daily Show With Jon Stewart
M – Th 11p / 10c

Arizona State Snubs Obama

thedailyshow.com

Daily Show
Full Episodes
Economic Crisis
Political Humor

Year of the Ankle

In an earlier post, I told you that I sprained both of my ankles while hiking.  Well, my mom sprained both of her ankles late last month, within a couple days of each other, while walking on sidewalks.  The first fall was the worst for her foot is still swollen but no breaks have been [...]

Humidity Sucks!

That’s all I have to say about that.

 Page 1 of 2  1  2 »