Something has spouted where I planted the zinnia seeds from 2004 but after the last false alarms, I'm not going to let myself get too excited until it grows into a zinnia plant.

Plus, it looks like a marigold seed has spouted near where I planted the zinnia seeds.  I guess it washed down the hill.  Funny that the only one to spout so far would be in ( Read more... )

Politicians don't change the world.  Engineers change the world.  The politicians are always behind the times and playing catch-up.

So, how real are robots?
April 16, 2010

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/16/real.robots/index.html

CNN: Are our legal systems behind this robot advance?

Sharkey: Very much so.

I'm not big on the introduction of new laws. I ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, I don't plan to go.

Star Wars: In Concert
RBC Center
July 18, 2010

http://www.rbccenter.com/default.asp?RBCcenter=87&objId=711

http://www.starwarsinconcert.com/

This is so awesome cool!!  Stanley has a sister!!

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Audi to climb Pikes Peak without a driver
Researchers developing technology that could help make driving safer
April 9, 2010

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36315471/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

The car, named Shelley, is the latest creation by Stanford University researchers who are ( Read more... )

My "Homescan" T-Fal® Initiatives 10-Piece Total Nonstick Cookware set arrived yesterday.  Yay!  I was expecting to have to wait weeks.  It arrived in less than one week.  I am pleased.

This is my first gift from the "Homescan" Rewards Catalog.  Now I get to start over and plan for my next gift.  I currently have only 650 points so it will be awhile ( Read more... )

For the most part my office has been cleaned out.  My desk, filing cabinet, and bookcases are 99% emptied.  I even remembered to bring home my coat hanger and over-the-door hook.  The weather is warm now.  I probably won't need to wear a jacket to the office between now and the end of the month.  If I do, I'll just have to find some other place to ( Read more... )

It turned out that the first sprout in the Rudbeckia pot was also a pine tree.  Reh.  I pulled them both.

Grr.  The thing that spouted in the pot with the pink Coneflower seeds is a pine tree!  Grr.

Whatever it is that has spouted in the Rudbeckia pot is not looking healthy this evening.  I don't think it is going to make it.  But...

Something has spouted in the flower pot where I planted the pink Coneflower (Echinacea) seeds.  Like with the Rudbeckia, I've never grown Coneflowers before so I don't know what it looks like when small.  I hope it ( Read more... )

Something has spouted in the flower pot where I planted the Rudbeckia seeds I got from Mother last fall.  But I'm not sure it is the Rudbeckia.  I have never grown Rudbeckia before and I'm not sure what it looks like when small.

Some people call Rudbeckia "Black-eyed Susan" or "Native Daisy".  Since I gathered the seeds from Mother's garden, I don't ( Read more... )