While I’m blogging good things… During our recent tribulations with the car accident, we’ve been being nickel-and-dimed to death with little charges here and there. The thing is, those charges begin to add up fast. Our insurance agent gave us the names of some reputable body shops and we chose Showcase Collision Center from their … Read more
Somedays fate gives you a lucky break. Oh, we didn’t win a million dollars or suddenly discover the guy who hit us was an eccentric billionaire who decided to give us a small private island near Aruba, but we did have a great Indian dinner tonight. We were heading towards a Tandoori place on Bell … Read more
Reuters => Malaysia issues guidebook for Muslims in space KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has come up with the world’s first comprehensive guidebook for Muslims in space as its first astronaut prepares to go into orbit next week. The book, entitled Guidelines for Performing Islamic Rites at the International Space Station, teaches the Muslim astronaut … Read more
Universe Today => High Energy Gamma Rays Go Slower Than the Speed of Light? The speed of light is the speed of light, and that’s that. Right? Well, maybe not. Try and figure this out. Astronomers studying radiation coming from a distant galaxy found that the high energy gamma rays arrived a few minutes after … Read more
BBC News => “’Gay Bomb’ scoops Ig Nobel award†Oh sure, everyone else is celebrating the military’s so-called gay bomb or the hamster on Viagra, but let’s hear a raucous round of applause for Taiwan, where this Ig Nobel award came from: Economics – Kuo Cheng Hsieh of Taiwan for patenting a device that can … Read more
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At last the story can be told. I’ve contemplated a whole series of posts concerning the car accident, but the story has always seemed somehow unfinished and I’ve held off. Now everything is pretty much over and done with, it’s time I set this down. The car accident occurred on Tuesday, September 18th. I haven’t … Read more
Cool idea, if you don’t mind an elevator pasted to the side of a scenic mountain area. …and, you have any faith in Chinese craftsmanship, coming as it does from the Land of Cutting Corners.
It hasn’t been a good couple weeks. I don’t think I’ve gone into much detail here, but fortune is trying to bankrupt us this month. First the car, which is totaled, resulted in us purchasing a new vehicle that we weren’t quite prepared to buy at this time, followed rapidly by discovering the house has … Read more
I’m not normally one for blogging the unfortunate events of other peoples’ lives, or at least, not when they look really, really like someone may have been seriously injured or killed, but, sometimes traffic in Taiwan (or is this China?) deserves a look. No blood or guts, but watch at your own risk. Technorati Tags: … Read more