Monthly Archives: March 2008

Ada Lovelace Painting bought on eBay

Someone bought an original painting of Ada Lovelace on eBay. Ada was the daughter of George Gordon Lord Byron, the English romantic poet. She was a mathematician (unusual for a woman at that time) and she was purportedly the lover of Charles Babbage who designed a steam powered difference engine. Babbage’s machine, although never completed […]

Domains Expiring

I am letting several domains expire. Some I don’t want and some I don’t have time for. I am letting Smeerp.com go. I am going to let Astoundme.com go and I am thinking that BlogsEye.com and BlogsEyeView.com should go. One of them is the Cat Blog, but I have been putting cat pictures here, on […]

Peter S. Beagle

Peter S. Beagle sends out a newsletter from time to time. Among other things there is a new audio book of The Last Unicorn. The picture is Peter’s cat: Finn, the RAVEN office wondercat, has different-colored eyes. Turns out they glow in the dark differently, too…spooky!

Jack Lelanne

When I was a kid, Jack used to be on TV. For years he was on reruns. In an age of obscenely pumped up steroid giants, Jack looks like just a really fit guy, but at the time, he was a “muscle man”. I am sure Jack never used any kind of hormone supplement or […]

13 Great Ghost Movies on Squidoo

Please click on the link below and vote for your favorite ghost story. This is a Squidoo lens. My Squidoo lense actually makes a few cents. I am even thinking of writing a few more. I need some hits to keep it in the top 10% on Squidoo. The page has started to slip a […]

Awareness Test

Count the passes – what did you miss?

Cost of Commuting – or not Telecommuting

I have been adding up the costs of commuting. I have to pay for parking in White Plains, NY. I have to pay tolls on the TZ Bridge. I have to pay for 30 miles worth of gas every day. I have to pay $1 a cup for weak coffee. I have to pay for […]

Are We Facing End Of Futurism?

With the death of Arthur C. Clarke, we have lost a great writerand perhaps the last real futurist. This blogger speculates that there are no great writers speculating, really speculating, about the future. There’s plenty of SF set in some future world, but not much of it is innovative. For instance, I just finished reading […]