Thanks in no small part to Bob Cochran who led our event, this tasting was an unqualified success. The idea this time was to pair up various chocolates with wines and then explore how they interacted with one another. You can also do standalone chocolate tastings but we liked the idea of the combination. We … Continue reading Wine and Chocolate Pairing Gathering
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for FlightI received this audiobook as a gift for Christmas and it took me a little while before I screwed up the desire to listen to it. I have a lot of podcasts and other audiobooks vying for my attention and don’t want to … Continue reading To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
If we could reinstate a body to advise congress on matters scientific, so that our lawmakers could have some other point of view besides those provided by pollsters and special interest lobbyists, I believe we would have far fewer of this kind of ill-conceived bill winding its way through congress The Office of Technology Assessment … Continue reading Congress looking to ban incandescent light bulbs
I finally finished my move from POWWEB to Lunarpages as my web hosting provider. Wow! What a difference. The site virtually hums now. It’s snappy and *much* faster than it was before. Back to getting on with business as usual. Please swing by The Gallery and peruse the pictures. They now will render in a … Continue reading Website back up and running great!
March 21, 2007: Giant crystal cave in Mexico – The Cellar: It’s very hard to conceive of crystals growing to this extent. But I thought these were very cool.
This came as part of a larger email, I laughed out loud. It might be worth throwing the points away on that question just to use that line.
As a reminder of my previous post, if you are from Georgetown, Ontario, Canada you may be interested in attending a Homecoming event targeted, not just at a particular school or graduation but for the entire town for anybody who’s ever lived there. Head on over to the Homecoming 2007 page for details!
1903 In the wake of the demise of my Tunturi J770 I went and picked up a new Vision Fitness T92000. I primarily used “Consumer’s Reports” in making this decision. I wanted a simple, solid treadmill. The Vision Fitness units are novel in that they have several bases (3 non-folding that I looked at) and … Continue reading New Vision Fitness T9200 treadmill
Dilbert and the Way of the WeaselI really enjoy Soctt Adams’ “Dilbert” cartoon. I have a daily cartoon desktop calendar and I think I have most of his anthologies. That said, I have to say I find the Dilbert books a bit much for my tastes. What comes across as sardonic wit in a short … Continue reading Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel
Dune: House Harkonnen The second book in second set of prequel trilogies (“Dune: House Trilogy) put out by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. This one focuses, naturally enough, on the machinations of the members of House Harkonnen that position them for the original “Dune” story.Overall I have to say that I enjoyed the first … Continue reading Dune: House Harkonnen
