Last night my husband happened upon some YouTube videos of Eddie Izzard. It had been a while since I’d seen his stand-up acts and so we ended up watching several of the videos. Today, I happened upon the Mac/PC Christmas commercial. That got me to thinking about humor. The most important thing about both of […]
Looking at a few news sites today, I learned that Korean scientists have cloned cats that are florescent in UV light. The first article said: The Ministry of Science and Technology said a team led by Kong Il-keun, an animal cloning expert at Gyeongsang National University, manipulated the RFP in the skin tissue of Turkish […]
I caught an article on Science Daily about how people enjoy a movie more when they see it with other people. Now this sounds pretty “doh!” to me, but then science often proves the known in order to move on and be sure they understand the underlying reasons for things. However, in reading the article, […]
I was talking with friends the other night about something that’s been bothering me since my dentist visit and the hygienist’s evil eye roll with sigh. Okay so I hadn’t had my teeth cleaned by the hygienist in years but I brush 3 times a day usually. But you’d have thought that I’d committed a […]
Well, I’ve managed to blow most of my day watching YouTube videos of musical tesla coils. I mean how geeky can you get. This one was my favorite — not because you can see it best but because of the tune (it is November and Nutcracker season). Megavoltmeister posted this explanation of the video: Twin […]
I got the automatic newsletter from NPR and found this article Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter…and Umami by Robert Krulwich to be extremely interesting. It all started with a French chef Auguste Escoffier who made a veal stock that had a new flavor that wasn’t the taste of sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. But when this […]
Just a quick note before we start the 3 hours drive up to Philadelphia, PA, for PhilCon. It seems my blog is now popular enough to get Spam comments. So, I wanted to explicitly list my comment policy so no one gets hard feeling. First, I love comments — positive, negative, and neutral. Though to […]
In another online group, we’ve been discussing wishes. There’s a lot of people who are all hyped on learning the steps to attract positive forces to grant your wishes. Personally, I make a wish on the turkey wishbone every year, on falling stars, and when blowing out the candles on my birthday cake (soon to […]