Thursday, February 16, 2012
From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyCtOCK6MiE Take a look. If you want to read the see comments, see the YouTube page [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyCtOCK6MiE]. If you find out how to write this poor kid to tell him you agree, please let me know and I’ll update it here.
VistaPrint (http://www.VistaPrint.com) offers inexpensive products. For many people they are “adequate”. That said, one of the items not disclosed is that their business cards are UNDERSIZED. While the standard specifies dimensions of 3.5 ” x 2″, the cards produced by VistaPrint are only 3.43″ x 1.93″. While that is “tiny”, it is noticible and in [...]
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Some years ago I drove mother down to the Houston Butterfly Museum (http://bit.ly/gC597u) (more precisely the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science). It was a fun trip for a couple of reasons. First, when we arrived the line was way out the door. So I decided to try something. I walked [...]
On the web: http://bit.ly/zDdkJy The whole SOPA/PIPA debate has reached a fever pitch in the last week or so. There was even a massive web protest in which sites like Wikipedia and Google participated. The protest has slowed the SOPA/PIPA threat, but it would be foolish to think the threat went away. If you are [...]
Thursday, January 12, 2012
From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAlyHUWjNjE
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
From YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU
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Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there. He looked in his briefcase but couldn’t [...]
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Alabama A group of Alabama friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. That night, one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck. “Where’s Bubba?” the others asked. “Bubba had a stroke o’ some kind. He’s a couple of miles back up the trail,” the [...]
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http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html Years ago when I attended the Rome campus of the university I attended (University of Dallas) I had my own personal chance to see the Sistine Chapel. It is crowded and I needed the binoculars I had brought to see it clearly. Now, with the help of technology and the web, you can see [...]
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