It was 75 degrees today, and at 8:40pm, it's down to 60 :)

I have five, though the 5th isnt published yet - probably 50 hours worth:

http://www.checkoutmyink.com/profile/caldercay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tjx6vH6YIc

The Bill passed.

And actually, you can see the showers (given you have a clear sky) from a
few days before the 22nd to a few days after. I recommend you check the
Clear Sky Chart for your area to see which night is best for viewing.

A bright moon can obscure the showers too.
http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon

Start here: http://cleardarksky.com/csk and choose your state
(or province/etc), then your city. Note that there may be quite a few
observatories in your area (such as 'private'), so I suggest you scroll
down the list to find the observatory closest to you. You might even
want to check 2-3 observatories close to you.

The chart uses military (24hour) time format, so 22 (2 over a 2) would
be 10pm and a lone '2' would be 2am (Friday in this sample).

Thursday . . . . . . .Friday
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12345678901230123...

Moving across the chart, for the 'cloud cover' and 'transparency' rows,
you'll want dark blue cell colors for the best sky for observation.

Where to look? Towards the NE and look for the star Lyra - here's a
map to get your oriented:
http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/lyrids/lyrids.html

One good reason to avoid using a M$ operating system.

Carbonara - takes about 10 minutes - recipe in this thread:
http://mingle2.com/topic/show/271541

Google fixed the Buzz glitch - you have to opt-in now, instead
of it being automatically public. And as far as "StreetView" goes,
well, what do you expect? They're taking millions of photos,
ya gotta expect some objects to be exposed. In Google's defense,
they do work to blur faces, license plates, etc, and are re-working
many streetviews because of privacy concerns.

This article is so off-base. This is about Google reporting to the public
about the number of requests that come in from Gov't and private orgs
and individuals about REMOVING content from search results.

And the part about disclosing information about companies or individuals
concerns illegal activity.

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/overview.html

People read into things incorrectly, In addition to writers of articles mentioned.

The microwave did not derive from NASA. It was discovered "by accident"
by Dr. Percy Spencer (engineer at Raytheon) in the 1946 timeframe.

The remote control? You mean, like a TV remote control? The first remote
control for opening garage doors appeared in homes in the 1940's. The
first wireless TV remote control was created in 1955.

Actually, the Internet's beginnings started with a marriage between MIT and ARPA
in the early '60's - NASA didn't get involved until many years later - and even
then, they weren't instrumental in evolving the 'Net. NASA was more interested
in implementing its own "internet", called, "NASA Science Network". The very
infrastructure of the Internet was in place before NASA was involved.

"Communications capability"??? The first wireless communications began
back in 1887. Mobile phones were in existence in 1946. NASA didn't have
much to do with modern communications.

I've heard and read a number of misleading attributions to NASA, such as
NASA inventing Velcro - it was finalized in 1955 by a Swiss mountaineer.

Heck, NASA wasn't created until Oct 1, 1958. Ok, I'm done with being off-topic :)

View -> Zoom -> Reset

Or use "CTRL -" (or is it "ALT -" ... I forget, I don't use Windows) That's the "minus" key.

Here's a slideshow of all the photos - samples follow .... sorry, I couldn't help including the "birds"
http://s942.photobucket.com/albums/ad261/myswtest/texas-flowers/?albumview=slideshow


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No doubt, "Indian Paintbrush".

School is much more than the academic piece. The newsperson
stated that to the teens, with respect to sports - school exposes
a person to various sports - to be exposed to it would reveal
whether the person would like it or not.

It's also about social interaction - to socially interact with just a
few people here and there isn't enough. While the rest of the
kids are in school, these kids are at home, or maybe at the mall,
but they aren't interacting with their social peers.

And to have no "hierarchy", no rules, what's up with that? These
parents are sooooo misguided. These kids will have a big surprise
on their hands when they get older and get out in the world, when
they discover there is structure to it all.

The question, "what about when you go to college"? That was a
good question - and the girl said, "I'll just get a book and learn it".
Ha! I'd like to see these kids' GED test scores when they get to
the "pre-college" age.

THe kids can't be blamed for this though - it's the parents who
are at fault (IMO) for choosing this direction for their kids.

You can just highlight, copy-n-paste the URL ... or click this:
http://news.yahoo.com/video/health-15749655/extreme-parenting-radical-unschooling-19218933 :)

Been using Dropbox since, almost, "day 1". I use it
between my Mac laptops, Linux desktops, and iPhone.

http://www.alternet.org/story/146509/the_financial_terrorists_who_destroyed_our_economy_will_pay_zero_in_taxes_--_and_get_%2433_billion_in_refunds

[...]
The point here is that while the economic crisis has been
devastating for 99% of America, the Wall Street elite are
awash in record breaking profits. The most profitable firm
in Wall Street history, Goldman Sachs, just had their most
profitable quarter in their 140-year history and Wall Street
firms issued an all-time record breaking amount in bonuses.

All of this is occurring after giving these firms $14 TRILLION
in taxpayer support - that works out to be $46,662 of
your hard-earned money.
[...]

I'm not getting it :) "forever" and "always" are synonyms, unless
you're calling the two words "oxymorons" for a rhetorical effect :)

Technically, I would think, "never always" and "never forever" or
"ending forever" or "temporarily forever", etc. makes more sense.

Did I mss something? :)

I know exactly where the crash occurred ... driven that stretch, cant' tell ya how many times.

Here's a video of the crash actually happening (a bit of swearing in it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJmB1F2mdE

Maybe someone can slow down the video and see where the gull fly's across :)

(edited to change URL to the youtube video, versus on facebook)

I've yet to meet a woman who'd refuse flowers. What's important is whether *you*
want to give flowers and not base the decision on whether it's en vogue or not.