Although this may have been the best Christmas decoration, it only lasted a few days.  It was made too life-like and almost caused a few traffic accidents.  There were also people who nearly hurt themselves putting the ladder back and climbing up to help.  On the advice of the police, it was taken down.  Click here for the original post.

I found this link for the Best Christmas Lights Display.  Check it out!

Amazing Grace Techno – Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

Spelling Poem

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
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Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
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As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
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Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

— Found on the Internet

Senator Al Franken schools Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson Institute–which until recently employed disgraced health care “analyst” and serial liar Betsy McCaughey–on how people in other “socialized” countries don’t go bankrupt trying to stay alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqqSHr0wVA

An article on Spaceweather.com discusses the latest analysis of climate researchers Judith Lean (NRL) and David Rind (NASA/GISS).  Their model can account for 76% of the variation in the surface temperature of the Earth over the last 30 years just by considering solar activity, volcanic eruptions, ENSO (El Nino), and the accumulation of greenhouse gases.  Click here to see their full article with predictions for the next two decades.

Here is a clip from the PBS program “DNA The Secret of Life”.  Computer animation is used to illustrate the process that makes near-perfect copies of DNA.

How DNA Copies Itself

I will be attending a couple of weddings in the next two months.  I wonder if they will be as unusual as the Unexpected Wedding Entrance?

Arthur Benjamin can figure out 3-digit squares in his head faster than people with calculators. Personally, I have to use a calculator to keep my checkbook balanced, so I am in total awe of his abilities.  Check out the link below.

Lightning Calculation and other “Mathemagic”

HGTV’s Man Land visits the ultimate guy hangout, my brother’s 50-Yard-Line Bar. A clip from that show is on YouTube.

You know the old joke about the difference between a recession and a depression:  A recession is when your neighbor loses his job;  a depression is when you lose your job. 

I found out today that it is officially a depression.  They told us this morning that they are closing the chemical plant where I have worked for the last 34 years.

I hold our former idiot President, George W. Bush, personally responsible for running our country into economic ruin.  Those people who voted for him twice also share much of the blame.