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Pluto.
For those of you that haven’t heard, a group of scientists last week have voted Pluto off this island of planets we call our Solar System and demoted it to what is known as a dwarf planet. For many of us, Pluto has been in our science books, in our culture, even in our cartoons.
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Place Your Bets!
I’ve decided to go into the “bookie” business… I’m starting wagers on who will inherit the Earth. Due to recent events in the news, it looks like robots are out in front.
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The legend of the Chupacabra!
Over the weekend, Farah and I were over my sisters having dinner with her, Mike, her husband, and their four kids. We were discussing an upcoming camping trip that we’re all going on (along with Matt and Janet) to a campground in Santa Cruz. While talking about the trip, my nephew, Nikolai blurts out, “Are…
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What to do about Moussaoui…
What to do about Moussaoui… Zacarias Moussaoui is currently being tried for his part in the conspiracy that resulted in the attack on the World Trade Center. He’s up for the death penalty and has no remorse about what happened on 9/11. With this case in the news… I’ve been thinking… There seems to be…
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Go to bed married, wake up divorced
The famous Triple Talaq is in the news again…
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Fun With Scams
I received yet another scam e-mail of the “Nigerian Million Dollar Money Transfer” variety. This time, rather than trashing it, I chose to respond…
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Awesome Movie Reviews: Hollow Man
Last night Farah and I watched Hollow Man on DVD. I actually saw this movie in the theater when it first came out, but because invisible man movies are so awesome, I bought the DVD and like to watch it again and again from time to time.
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Wondercon: 2006!
Wondercon: 2006!!! Last weekend I got to experience a comic book/sci-fi convention in San Francisco… I’m not really into comic books, but I have a friend, Tim, who loves them and who kept bugging me to go to this major comic event… I was hemming and hawing over it since the event wasn’t really my…
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News: The First Step in the Road to Peace.
After reading more tragic news today about the Islam vs. Denmark thing, I decided that, to hopefully distract the Muslim world from Denmark’s insulting cartoon, a more uplifting cartoon is in order to help ease tensions and hopefully start a road of peace between the Muslim’s, Denmark, and indeed, all nations and religions.
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Farewell Bill and Ted
While visiting with my nieces and nephews last night, I found the eulogy that my nephew, Vitali, wrote for his pet hermit/tree crabs who recently died sitting on the kitchen table. For Christmas, Santa brought him some pet hermit/tree crabs. It was a hermit crab terrarium kit with a note that the crabs would arrive…