Eye Candy for the Holidays

From Mena’s dollarshort site comes an excellent link to a site that has over 30 different full-screen panoramic photos (Quicktime required). Many of these rich, beautiful, inspiring images rotate up and down in … Read more

The California Coast from the Air

A variety of things had to come together to realize this dream, but once they did, the results are amazing! You can easily spend hours looking at these fascinating arial photos of the … Read more

Let It Be

That’s Yoko Ono’s advice to Sir Paul McCartney, who is keen to change the song writing credits on songs he primarily composed. He recently released an album of songs performed during a 2002 … Read more

My Mom

66 years young is too young to die. Yet, that’s what happened to my mother, Pat. After fighting cancer for 2 years she passed away on December 9th. Though we lived half a … Read more

Glass Pens, Inktober 9th

Rubber Biscuit

Remember the Rubber Biscuit song that Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi performed in the Blues Brothers movie? Who knew that the hard to understand, seemingly nonsensical song had real lyrics!? The Chips – … Read more

Sorry, I Can’t Answer That Question

According to the USA Patriot Act, librarians face criminal penalties if they inform their patrons that they are under investigation by the FBI. While this prior restraint on free speech is categorically unconstitutional, … Read more

2017 Favorites: Rural Skies

Takin’ it to the (virtual) Streets

Computer game publisher Electronic Arts, creator of the fantastically popular Sims line of computer games, has recently announced a virtual, interactive, online Sims experience called, oddly enough, the Sims Online. That in and … Read more