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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
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