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According to this article on cnn.com, someone has captured the best footage ever of the Loch Ness Monster. Apparently the footage isn’t yet online but hopefully it will turn up on youtube soon.

There’s a nifty site here that showcases a new gizmo from Microsoft. Essentially it’s a 30″ flat-panel display with multi-touch capability built into a table. The assertion that it has already changed our world is rather grandiose but it is a pretty neat welcome-to-the-future sort of thing.
It would never work for me, though. Any flat [...]

Awhile ago I mentioned Last.fm in this post. In today’s news I see that CBS has purchased Last.fm for $280 million. Obviously I have no idea what this means for the future of the site, but one can guess that ads for CBS TV will start to appear on it.

Yes, it’s true. Both of my grandfathers were engineers; my father’s father was an electrical engineer and my mother’s father was a mechanical engineer. (It’s an interesting point that there was more overlap between those fields during their careers than there is now. My grandfather Schabtach did a lot of work on power-generating turbines, work [...]

As I mentioned previously, Tracie and I were amazed by both the quality and the low cost of the health care that she received while we were traveling in Japan. There’s an article here at the New York Times website about a growing phenomenon: Americans traveling abroad specifically for medical treatment. Here’s a brief excerpt:

Already, [...]

I suppose this is part of my 15 minutes of fame. The Cheboygan Area Public Library, located in Cheboygan, Michigan currently has a display of some of my origami. There’s a photo of the display here.
Obviously there’s a story behind this. The story is that Paper Jade has a particularly enthusiastic and talented customer [...]

I’ll freely admit that my greying hair has caused me transitory moments of dismay. Aging isn’t all bad but there have been occasions on which I’ve looked in the mirror and noticed how much of my hair is no longer the color it used to be. However, I’ve never given serious thought to dyeing my [...]

WARNING: this post contains material of an adult nature, including discussion of sexual activity.
Actually it’s hard to call what follows “adult” and it’s sexual only in a rather odd sense, but consider yourself warned.
Weebl’s Stuff is my favorite humorous website, and if you’re not already familiar with their cartoons you might enjoy spending several minutes [...]

I’ve been meaning to post a brief rant about how Apple has a lot of cheek to go on about worry-free upgrades in their current advertising, given my recent and not-so-recent experiences with Apple’s botched upgrades. However, there are numerous other things vying for my time and attention so that rant will have to wait [...]

Most of our family and friends know that Tracie and I are big fans of The Ginger People products. Recently Tracie was putting in an order for various ginger-laden products and asked whether my supply of Ginger Chews and Gin-Gins needed replenishing. I’m down to about one can’s worth of each, so I told her [...]