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Sunset! 2007-09-23 18:10:00 @ flatrock park.Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Pocahontas this morning... 2007-09-22 09:14:00 We got in a 6.3 mile ride this morning on the Blue trial.  We are suppose to go tomorrow and do Buttermilk and Forest Hills.  That will be about a 12 mile ride.  Not a bad weekend so far…     RMStringer ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content. (Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)   Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

The Pier 2007-09-21 05:03:00 I found this on the web. It is amazing! I thought that some of you might aperciate it. What is your opinion?Blogroll Me! Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

The Cosmic Perspective - By Neil deGrasse Tyson 2007-09-21 01:15:00 I recently saw a show on Discovery with Tyson. He interested me and I want to get the book he has written this year called "Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (W.W. Norton, 2007)" He interests me and I wanted to post this article written in the Natural History magazine, April 2007 by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. This is long read but very well worth it.Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful. For, by knowledge derived from this science, not only the bulk of the Earth is discovered . . . ; but our very faculties are enlarged with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys, our minds exalted above [ their ] low contracted prejudices. —James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained Upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles, And Made Easy To Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics (1757)Long before anyone knew that the universe had a beginning, before we knew that the nearest large gal ...

A Funny Joke!! 2007-09-20 20:34:00 This is one of the best clean jokes I've seen in a while! Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering. Finally fed up, God said, "THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job." So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away. They moused. They faxed. They e-mailed. They e-mailed with attachments. They downloaded. They did spreadsheets! They wrote reports. They created labels and cards. They created charts and graphs. They did some genealogy reports They did every job known to man. Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell. Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off.. Satan sta ...

Ozone hole is supposed to close by December... 2007-09-20 19:40:00 Background Information about the "Ozone Hole"Every year for the past several decades the return of sunlight to the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere has produced massive depletion of ozone over Antarctica. Observations in Antarctica initiated in the 1950's document this progressive loss of ozone during the Southern Hemisphere spring. Satellite data from the NASA/TOMS showed that the affected area was not just limited to over the observation stations, but over most of Antarctica. This area of 50-75% depletion of total ozone has been labeled as the "ozone hole". The ozone hole is defined geographicaly as the area wherein the total ozone amount is less than 220 Dobson Units. The ozone hole has steadily grown in size(up to 27 million sq. km.) and length of existence(from August through early December) over the past two decades. This is graphically illustrated in ozone hole area versus Julian day plots for the years: 1979-80, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 19 ...

Fall Series, Signs Of The Seasonal Change... 2007-09-20 07:43:00 This was an experiment that i did last week to try to use different focal lenghts to make different objects be in and out of focus. I hope that you all like them. I think several of them are very good. What is your opinion?Blogroll Me! Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Cobalt Gum... 2007-09-19 22:35:00 I have seen all the hype about this gum so I decided to try it. I purchased for $1.50 the other night the blue gum, "Cobalt...A Cooling Peppermint".Wrigley Announces Launch Plans for 5(TM) - New Stick Gum To Stimulate the Senses"5 appeals to the senses and is the most exciting development in sugar- free stick gum since the launch of Extra(R) more than 20 years ago," said Bill Perez, Wrigley's President and CEO, while speaking to attendees at Wrigley's Annual Stockholders' Meeting Wednesday in Chicago.Available in Rain(TM) (a tingling spearmint flavor), Cobalt(TM) (a cooling peppermint flavor), and Flare(TM) (warming cinnamon flavor), 5 debuts in a 15- stick envelope package, a first for the gum category."Teens, who are constantly seeking opportunities to experience something out of the ordinary, are also the most frequent gum chewers of any age group and account for one-third of all gum chewed in the U.S.," said Martin Schlatter, Wrigley's Chief Marketing Officer. "In our testing ...

Coincidence Is All? 2007-09-19 18:19:00   This is actually really freaky!! (mainly the end part, but read it   all first) 1) New York City has 11 letters 2) Afghanistan has 11 letters. 3) Ramsin Yuseb has 11 letters . (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in   1993) 4) George W Bush has 11 letters.     This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets  more interesting: 1) New York is the 11th state. 2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight number 11. 3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers , was carrying 65   passengers. 6+5 = 11 5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 =11 6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911.    9 +   1 + 1 = 11 Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make up your own mind: 1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254.   2 +   5 + 4 = 11. ...

ITs always funny until someone gets hurt... 2007-09-18 18:36:00 In my opinion, they were WAY the HELL off base!! I am just glad that i did not and do not ever want to go to jail there!! Here is 2 different views from 2 people. TheUniversity of Florida will have a big lawsuit on their hands...What is your opinion?Blogroll Me!Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Random mail box! 2007-09-18 17:53:00 No house here for mail.Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Soundside Sunset Duck NC, OBX 2007-09-17 16:40:00 DSC02496, originally uploaded by RMStringer.http://www.fishbonessunsetgrille.com/ That is the link to the resturant where the picture was taken. OBX, Duck NCSubscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

Bright drive! 2007-09-17 13:33:00 I tried to recreate the pic from yesterday but i was to late as this one was shot @ 8.25am, not @ 8.00am. Perhaps i will try tomorrow morning.Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...

As clear as mud... 2007-09-17 00:12:00 According to a recent post on GameDaily BIZ, Comcast had said what excessive is. Here is the article. There have been several posts about this on Slashdot and other sites. So even if I were the biggest spammer in the world, I might not get banned by Comcast as long as I do not reach the 13 million Email mark!! So, we are looking at somewhere in the 500+gig a month area. Not too shabby if you ask me. It looks like they are the most lenient out of all of the major carriers.Earlier this week, we heard a radio report that talked about a few people who were losing their high-speed Internet access through Comcast. The company cited that these users went above and beyond the average use of most users and branded the former customers as "excessive users." In what appeared fishy, the report said that Comcast would not define how the company defined the term.Now that the three current next gen consoles offer online connectivity for downloads, competition and system updates, we were worried that ...

Are they related? 2007-09-16 21:24:00 Those people look a lot alike. Is Love their long lost mother? Look at the pics and I will let you decide. Their looks are very unsetteling if you ask me.What is your opinion? Blogroll Me! Subscribe to my Posts... Blogroll Me! ...