I'm late, again. And I apologize. But who really wants to work on weekends anyway? Put that together with my recent hectic schedule and impetuous attempt to switch my computer from Windows to Fedora Linux, and an on-time submittal just wasn't to be ( Read more... )

June is here, and I am late. I offer no excuses, but I will appeal to your generosity and beg for forgiveness ( Read more... )

Maybe it's a little early for craving cool dips in pools, but the
weather we had here this weekend seemed to suggest different.  It
wasn't even May then!  But now it is.  Those European pagans sure knew
when to throw a party.  And how.  But that's not why I celebrate the
first of May.  Spring is my favorite favorite season, especially
during the winter ( Read more... )

Well, well, well. Here we are again. Thanks to my crowded weekend schedule and the 2007 MLB calendar, I can now say that spring has officially arrived, with the New York Mets having beaten the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1 this opening night. Of course, tomorrow is the day that most teams play their first game, making that Official Spring Day ( ( Read more... )

How can one prepare when a month is only 28 days long? Not even Heath Ledger could manage that. But here we are in March. We're one-sixth done with 2007, going on one-fourth ( Read more... )

Al Gore Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

How many people have been nominated for an Oscar and a Nobel Prize (Peace or otherwise)? In the same year?

Gore 2008!

It is hard to believe we're already a month into 2007. I am still consistently writing 2006 on - well - everything. When I was a kid, I thought that as I got older the transition from one year to the next would be easier to remember, because I'd have to put the date on more things. Turns out, I was completely wrong. I used to turn in homework ( ( Read more... )

We have a chance this week to promote clean energy.

On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on H.R. 6, the Clean Energy Act of2007.

This bill would fund clean energy projects by rolling back billions of dollars worth of oil drilling incentives and raising billions more through federal royalties paid by oil and gas ( Read more... )

Last night (or early this morning, for pedants like me), I was asked whether 2006 had been a good year for me. My initial, and perfectly honest response, was that I'm happier today than I was a year ago, so the year must have been a success. Sometimes the journey is difficult, and it's easy to ignore the trial when the verdict is positive. ( Read more... )

it's a terrible quiz and the result is way off, but i figured i should take it just to support the idea.

Why are you a vegetarian/vegan?
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