Posted in Computers on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Every Sunday I page through the Best Buy, Circuit City, Office Depot and Office Max ads for new electronic toys to help make my life better. I’m currently thinking about buying a Palm TX, Asus Eee PC, iPAQ 200, iPod touch, Nokia N800, Nikon D40x, an external SATA drive for my Scientific American 8300HD DVD [...]
Posted in Science Fiction on September 13, 2007 | 6 Comments »
For a long time now, years even, I’ve had an aching hunger to find and read a great science fiction novel. When I was a kid I stayed in a constant science fictional high – from opening my eyes in the morning, to dropping into unconsciousness at night, I kept a running sense-of-wonder buzz-on fueled by [...]
Posted in Health on September 8, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I don’t mean to knock AARP, an organization that helps us all as we get older, but I have to question their efforts to promote the sale of long term healthcare insurance. My mother died recently, and the experience was a great learning one for me in many ways. Getting old and dying involves a [...]
Posted in Global Warming, Inventions on September 1, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I think crystal balls are showing households should become more energy independent, or at least, less dependent on distant sources of energy. The first line of attack on this problem is to just use less energy, but another solution, which for me is a long term solution, is to produce energy locally. This is neither [...]
