After watching NASA TV for the Phoenix landing, I have been doing my best to keep up on the news and announcements relating to the quest for ice on mars.  I’ve read headlines that say ice confirmed on Mars, but I have also read the headlines that say ice strongly suspected to be found.  From [...]

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Do you ever use online translations? I have. Lots of the time they are very accurate, however, sometimes the opposite is true. Otherwise suppose to be ordinary sounding phrases get morphed to unrelated malarky. Carl Tashian over on tashian.com wrote a really amusing post about what happens if you take a [...]

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Yesterday I was sitting at work doing the normal work, minding my own business when all of a sudden, Rochester brought himself into my life. I look down and what do I see, this itsy bitsy tiny little beetle bug crawling around between my iMac keyboard and my MacBook. At first he startled [...]

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I came across this neat little site, http://howmanyofme.com.  You can enter your first and last name, then it will tell you (somehow, I haven’t read the detail) how many people in the US have your first name, how many people in the US have your last name, and then how many people in the US have [...]

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