A Subtle Joke

I was reading the news this morning and I came across a few articles that I wanted to share with the world, or at least that small, elite portion of the world that visits this site.

First up, a cute article found in the New York Times reporting on a kennel that rescues dogs from pounds and then rents the dogs to people. Apparently, they get a lot of repeat business, but do customers get to rent the same dog, make reservations for their four-footed favorite ahead of time, or do people have to settle for the next available best friend?

Penultimate in my non-existent ordering system is a fascinating article on abstinence movements. I haven't finished the article yet, but as soon as lunch comes around, I'm looking forward to finishing it. So far, the author of the article seems to be treating the topic in an open-minded way. Too many of articles in newspapers I read on this topic ( which includes articles on the hookup culture, college as way to be true to yourself, being gay is all right, religion in college is silly, unrequited love causes gun spree ) are incredulous or insulting. The idea of tolerance today never applies to those who are intolerant because they believe in an absolute right and wrong.

I will end with an end-of-times article. Certain scientists (most are remaining anonymous!) are worried that the new Hadron Reactor will end the world by creating a small black whole. Even if it does only have the mass of an atom, it may swallow the world eventually an atom at a time or the black whole may dissipate as described by Hawking. Who knows, perhaps no rips in the fabric of space time will be created at all.

Another Picture Post

My sister Margaret came down for a 3 day visit. We saw all sorts of things while she was down here. We went to Disney World and rode rides and bought pictures of us screaming, drove to Universal Studio and watched 3-D movies and sat through horror makeup demonstrations and rode more rides, and spent the last day at Blue Springs riding a canoe looking at Manatees then snorkelled in the spring and dodged big fish. :-)

Whew. Picture time!  Check back periodically for pictures. I just spent the last hour opening up 27, 4 meg pictures at once. Now that my computer's memory usage has come down from 3 gigs, I need a break. :-)

Three More Days

My sister is coming to visit! My sister is coming to visit! Whoo hoo!  I thought it was an important enough of an announcement to pull get back into blogging. Disney World, Universal Studios, and a day swimming; that is our tentative schedule for the weekend.

I'll be taking lots of pictures and posting them for the rest of the family. Another exciting thing about this weekend is my first ( and M's first ) experience with couchsurfing. I'll also let you know how that goes.

Well, this wasn't a long post. More like putting the toe in the water to see if it's warm, but I'll be back with more!