I truly hate all sorts of Spam©, including the Internet versions.

I just added Google Adsense to my account last week. So far, I've had to go through comments on new AND old postings to remove nensense comments, re-directions to other web… Read full post »

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A giant among Americans, in more ways than one, Senator Edward Kennedy has died, today, August 26, 2009. He was 77 years old.

Brain cancer was his cause of death. He had fought it for almost a year and a half… Read full post »

I'll miss you Dakini - Josie. I'll miss your unfettered and unselfconscious self.  Your causes. Your just being there / here. 

So long for now.

Here are a few songs that we might like to listen to.

This is a silly little piece of fluff, but we can all use fluff every once in a while.  Mine - I like marshmallow fluff with chocolate bars.  Yummm!

But this one will no doubt remind you all of a certain denizen here on O.S.  Enjoy!

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 Comet?  GREEN Comet?  As in Josephine the Plumber's best buddy?

     No!  This comet!! 

 ^{©Prestige Brands}                     … Read full post »

 Comet?  GREEN Comet?  As in Josephine the Plumber's best buddy?

     No!  This comet!! 

 ^{©Prestige Brands}                     … Read full post »

I have three most favorite movies. I cannot separate them or reduce the list to only 1.  So here is the list of 3:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - the perfect film about the South, where I grew up. Sure, I grew up 30 or so… Read full post »

From the AP:

"After two days of protests, the New York Post apologized Thursday for a cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police. But the newspaper also said its longtime antagonists exploited the image for revenge."

Well, that… Read full post »

There is this series of animated snowman videos on YouTube that I find to be more profound than they appear at first glance.  This one is all about Valentine's Day and love without being mushy at all.  I was waiting for Bob Eckstein (Snowman Expert) or the author (Celestial Elf) to… Read full post »

 Here is something that excites me about horizon-event on the  green revolution: production of synthetic diesel fuel in small chemical factories at about $1.00 per gallon.

This is not bio-diesel -- it is digested scrap material and waste cellulose from crops and trash that would oth… Read full post »

  Snapshot courtesy David Bergman

In an age when Google Street Level is putting Main Street America on the map, pictorially speaking, there is another company putting super high-definition photographs that can be panned and scanned on the Internet too.

Gigapan.org says it "allows… Read full post »

 On (or maybe before) Tuesday, February 10,  somebody was asleep at the U.S.  Strategic Command (STRATCOM) in Omaha, or  the orbital debris monitoring of… Read full post »

Picture of horizon on Mars, as seen by Spirit Rover, showing the litle speck that is Earth.

For a person who is 6 feet tall on Earth, the horizon appears to be 3 miles away.   That is without any obstructions in the view.  A person… Read full post »

Hello my friends. Friends? I have been scanning a lot of posts recently and wondering - what has happened on OS anyway? Is it some sort of Seasonal Affective Disorder? It is February after all, and even I get a little blue here on the Red Planet in February.… Read full post »

I used to read a lot of sci-fi, much of it  from the so-called "Golden Age of Science Fiction" in the 1940's and 50's.  In those books, there was  rarely a problem with power.  It was there, generated by "atomics" or other technology that the authors were confident would… Read full post »

So I got an e-mail notification today of a message received at my OS blog "mymessage" area from someone called "newlove1."  Hey, I can always use some "New Love!" But, zut alors, there is  no such message!  Outrage!  This must be a NEW kind of spam, I think, intercepts from people… Read full post »

This post is about a week late, but there is that pesky delay between the 2 planets. And the celebration has been really big around here.

 A single decision can make a big difference in Mr. Obama's energy policy on Day One of his first term, and it doesn't even take an act of Congress to make it happen.

By Executive Order, Mr. Obama can require that all new Federal Government vehicles… Read full post »

Not too far from my own little piece of Terra Firma, a new Korean (KIA) automobile production plant is being built.  You can read an LA Times article about the local take on the Big 3 car makers bail-out here.

Old postcard of downtown West Point, GA.  Doesn't look a… Read full post »

Lame duck President George W. Bush was interviewed by ABC's Charles Gibson on Dec. 1, 2008.  It should have aired on NBC, because its most significant points were about the failure of his administration to keep track of the weapons of mass destruction in the world: Nuclear, Biological, and… Read full post »

  
That's Spirit, my SUV on my adopted planet, Mars.  It's a digital picture sent to Earth via telemetry through the NASA Mars Orbiter, and yes, it's public domain if you live on Earth or Mars.  If you are from anywhere else, please consult your local legal authorit… Read full post »

From CNN.com - We need to read this over again a few times. And for those who are hearing impaired as well.

CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) 11/04/2008 -- Sen. Barack Obama spoke at a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, after winning the race for the White… Read full post »

Update today,  Sunday, 10-12-2008!!!

Looking through a very large lens, I have detected that gasoline prices have gone down in this small town in the South East USA.  Wow, have they ever gone down!  From $4.029 per gallon… Read full post »

What in the world was this all about?

Well that's just a rhetorical question.  We know the press will jump all over it as evidence of the racial tension that exists between John McCain and Barack Obama.  And it apparently does exist in the mind of John McCain anyway. … Read full post »

At first I had a difficult time understanding my extreme dislike of Sarah Palin.  She has 2 X chromosomes, like me.  I should rejoice at the idea of a woman being a heartbeat away from the Presidency. 

But - it has slowly bubbled up to my consciousness.  She is… Read full post »