For some reason this has been a bad week for me — migraines, bad fibro days, and let us not forget the poison ivy. Luckily, the poison ivy (cross every set of fingers within ten miles) looks like it’s not going to go systemic on me this time. My right arm has pretty much cleared […]
Last weekend, we worked on getting that rest of the gardening done. Sunday, we got a lot done and then started to weed out around the fruit orchard. Last year we didn’t do much in that area and it has gotten rather overgrown with weeds and baby trees and stuff. I’m highly allergic to poison […]
I remember that I first saw George Carlin on The Mike Douglas Show. I loved his strange views of what should be totally mundane. Later, I learned he was a stand up comedian and had stood up against censorship with 7 little words you can’t say on TV. Today, I opened CNN.com and saw that […]
Remember physics class in high school where they give you the box and you’re supposed to shine a light through some holes and see light as waves but it passes through the holes as particles? This photo brought it all back. Isn’t it great? The photo is from an article in New ScientistTech. Among other […]
Just saw The Incredible Hulk this afternoon. I really enjoyed it. It seems that the super hero movies are really getting much, much better since Marvel decided to maintain control over the process. This is the Hulk — tortured by what he’s become, afraid to be around people, desperate to control the beast within, determined […]
I ran across this Wired article that mentioned an article in the March issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry that internet addiction be included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Really, people get a grip. This is the kind of stuff that causes non-psychologists/psychiatrists to believe that all mental disorders are […]
Today I was reading Amazon Daily and found a link to an article by Luc Sante, “The Book Collection That Devoured My Life” in the Wall Street Journal. I read through the article and I laughed and I commiserated and I thought, “Here is a kindred spirit.” Here’s two quotes that give a flavor of […]
All this weekend, we’ve been clearing up the yard and prepping the garden areas for planting. We’d done this awhile back (the preparation bit) but then with rainy stormy weekends and weekends with temps above 100 — well it didn’t get done. So, this weekend we did it. We got the new herbs for this […]