Year: 2005

Spam be Gone

For the time being, I’ve disabled comments on this site. You can email me if you have a comment, and we’ll take it from there. I resisted this decision for a long time, … Read more

Small Town Politics

The local paper has rescinded its three week moratorium on printing letters to the editor. It was a misguided attempt to control the political discourse in our community and it failed. Credit to … Read more

Thompson’s Vincent Black

Out for a drive late yesterday afternoon, Richard Thompson’s song, Vincent Black Lightning, started playing. It was just another song brought to us by iPod’s random song selector. Now, we’ve listened to this … Read more

Friday Glow Blogging: English Fluorite

English fluorite is one of the brightest of all fluorescent minerals, and this fine, 1″ crystal specimen, illuminated by longwave UV light, is a very nice example, indeed.

Blue: Who Knew?

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted an interesting astronomy photo, and the one below, though subtle, is very beautiful. The image is of Saturn’s “northern” hemisphere and was taken by the … Read more

Get Back Trackback

I turned off the trackback feature of this site this morning. Awaking once again to a mailbox full of blog related spam I decided today was the day to stop at least this … Read more

Mike’s Simple Hi-Tech Glossary

Based on recent comments and observations, I’ve come to realize that many of the acronyms encountered in the online world aren’t as well known as as many authors might wish. Herewith is a … Read more

Potatoes Sheryl

I don’t normally post two recipes back to back, but I created my version of the classic cheesy potato dish tonight, and it was so good, and so easy, I figured it was … Read more

Monkey Bread

I made this scrumptious dessert over a week ago, and decided to share the recipe before I forgot. This is an extremely good variation of the classic cinnamon roll, and fun to make … Read more