August 17, 2018

TGIF!!

AND for the entire clip:

https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4E05AQE-HA_luANWvg/b2135b74c955463d866b42cbec222c10/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1534615200&v=beta&t=iInKh3b0uQVvyiT-M_a5zggtfz7PuiLJMD4TkjlCu-M

August 16, 2018

Florida Schools Ordered By Law To Display 'In God We Trust' Signs

The sponsor of the state House bill cited the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as one of the reasons for displaying the words.

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b756d57e4b0df9b093cc15b/amp


Come on, ACLU!!

August 16, 2018

The definitive ranking of 2020 Democrats

Because Donald Trump is, well, Donald Trump, a lot of attention has been paid to his hostile takeover of the Republican Party -- and how he continues to consolidate that power.

What that focus on how Trump killed the old -- and by that we mean the 2012 -- version of the Republican Party misses is how much the Democratic Party has evolved -- and is evolving -- in its own way.
Like Republicans, that change sped up -- rapidly -- in 2016. It was led by an unlikely figure -- Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders. To say Sanders was lightly regarded when he started running against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to do a disservice to the term "lightly regarded.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/16/politics/2020-democrats-biden/index.html

Joe Biden, far and away, still in First Place.

August 15, 2018

Unemployment in Texas?

If anyone can answer some questions, please PM me.

thanks!

August 14, 2018

Welcome to your future space home.

By late 2030, NASA wants to 3D-print one of these houses on Mars.

https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4D05AQFlx4jvT9P_HA/1cfa99beec354f658817e9edbb2b4dbc/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1534370400&v=beta&t=eDl6-pHYWQna2y9PmcUpgKsYNQaxzIgMR64WjcYgsps

I'm thinking these should be built on Earth first.....

August 14, 2018

The Wearable Chair

Bizarre, and interesting. The wearable chair is supposed to increase productivity, while decreasing back strain.

https://dms.licdn.com/playback/C4D05AQFO54n7llX6SA/6e9cff5e90eb44c6a37dca10c96361b1/feedshare-mp4_3300-captions-thumbnails/1507940147251-drlcss?e=1534352400&v=beta&t=Z9Yv2hNKCWX-UNG_IxMQ3hYIWaE0lWTSeLUtAL4N7h8

August 14, 2018

Free-Diving Family Saves Whale Shark Stuck in a Fishing Net

Very, very cool video of rescue at link.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/08/whale-shark-entangled-fishing-net-freed-hawaii-news/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=social::src=linkedin::cmp=editorial::add=li20180813animals-newanimalsfreediverwhalesharkrescuevideo::rid=

August 13, 2018

100,000 Dolphins Are Illegally Murdered for Bait Each Year

https://www.care2.com/causes/100000-dolphins-are-illegally-murdered-for-bait-each-year-this-must-be-stopped.html

Given how universally revered dolphins are, and the fact that humans rarely eat their meat, you’d be forgiven for assuming that dolphins are largely spared by the fishing industry. Alas, that’s not the case. As a new report finds, fishers hunt and butcher over 100,000 cetaceans (a classification that includes dolphins, porpoises and tinier whales) each year, a number that’s been steadily growing in the past couple of decades.

We’re not talking about dolphins accidentally getting caught up in nets – this is a deliberate attempt to capture them so they can be chopped up as bait. When the cetaceans are pulled on to the boat, they’re generally stabbed with harpoons and knives and then left to die, so the suffering is intense.

August 3, 2018

What's Your Cleaning Music?

I gotta have some good tunes going. What's your go to cleaning music?

Today, mine is Paula Cole, "Postcards from East Oceanside".

A couple of favorites......Feelin' Love (and you can dance with the vacuum cleaner to it).

Energize the dusting:

July 29, 2018

Scaly Bark Watermelons?

Anyone have experience growing these? Trying some this year for the first time, and having trouble telling when they're ripe. The usual thumping, and underside check doesn't seem to apply. I hate to cut up any more that look/sound like a good one I would buy at the grocery, to find they are totally unripe.

My usual Ali Baba's and Crimson Sweets are plugging right along, should be able to be picking in the next month.



Baker Seed Description:
https://www.rareseeds.com/scaly-bark-watermelon/