Aviation Firsts

First successful heavier-than-air machine flight - 1903.
First multi-engined aircraft - 1913.
First successful helicopter flight - 1937.
First nonstop transcontinental flight - 1923.
The world's longest nonstop commercial flight. London to Hong Kong - 22 hrs, 43 min.
Etc,

We’re flying to Biloxi tomorrow for a few days of gambling away some of our hard earned money.

The Nokia developed Morph

A nanotechnology cell phone was demonstrated today. Its release is a few years away but this is what they have in mind.

Super Charge your Immune System.

Artifically developed cells using already FDA approved biomaterials.

A Good Article on Argentinean Tourism

I would say the meals are a little more expensive and the hotels a little cheaper than they quote in the article.

Go see Iguazu Falls if you can

Everything has its Price

Those energy saving compact florescent light bulbs contain toxic mercury.

Road of Death

A mostly single lane, dirt road, with no guard rails, 43 miles long, high up in the Bolivian Andes.
Road trip, anyone? We can go at night while it’s raining.

Are you a dog person or a cat person?

Cheaper than eating right, easier than exercising and you can keep it outside if it pisses you off.
A cat, can cut your risk of heart attack by 30%.


My own personal cardiologist, Claudy.
Click on the picture to get a close up view of my cardiologist hard at work.

Justice for Shysters

A judge overturned a verdict and made the lawyers pay the defendant’s lawyer fees, in the millions.

Man Up

Lately I’ve been muttering to myself, one of the great lines in movie history,
“… a generation of men raised by women.”

More men, especially young men, are behaving in a manner that has traditionally been associated with women;
gossip, manipulation, innuendo and playing dumb.

Speak directly.
Ask direct questions.

Happy Valentines Day

In the Grand Scheme of Things

Do you want to feel insignificant?
We got here 6 minutes ago.

This was first published as the first chapter of Carl Sagan’s book, “The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”

How's that for a highfalutin title?

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008

From the best high tech site on the web. Technology Review

Username - bugme
Password - bugmenot


Checking their track record…

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2007

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2006

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2005

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2004

The 10 Emerging Technologies of 2003

The US Dollar vs the Euro and the Argentinean Peso

U.S. Dollar to Euro Exchange Rate - 5 Years.


U.S. Dollar to Argentine Peso Exchange Rate - 5 Years.

That makes Argentina a great place to vacation.
A steak dinner for two with a bottle of fine Argentinean wine is $30-$35.
Taxis are cheap and the people are friendly.



Got to love a city that has ads on the street
featuring topless women


The Barrio Norte section of BA.

Live Love Long Time

If we are able to live another 10-15 years, we're going to live a long time.
The breakthroughs are here or right around the corner.
Make and program your own stem cells.

Username - bugme
Password - bugmenot

It’s Getting Much Worse

Countywide is the largest mortgage company in the country. Countrywide had a terrible 2007. They had HUGE losses, in the Billions.
The 1st month of this year was even worse.
Countrywide reported last week, that the number of properties in foreclosures doubled last month and the number of delinquent loans almost doubled.

What I don’t understand is, why would one of the largest banks in the country pay $4 Billion dollars for a company that had already lost 80% of its market cap?
Something’s going on there and I think it involves my hard earned money.

Mussolini got the trains to run on time too

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- A group of North Korean fishermen who drifted into South Korean waters were reportedly executed upon their return home.

Two boats carrying 22 North Koreans fishing for clams and oysters without North Korean permission wandered into South Korean waters Feb. 8. South Korean officials returned them when they found they weren't seeking asylum or spying.

The North Korean National Security Agency had the men killed immediately upon their return, a source told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

The South Korean government said it had no knowledge of the execution.

Florida has the Best Sunsets

Those are true colors. The sky had shades of pink.
From in front of the house.

Battery Breakthrough?

10 times the punch of lead-acid batteries at half the cost and without the need for toxic materials or chemicals, according to the company.

The above link takes you to a MIT site, called Technology Review, register or use the following from www.BugMeNot.com
Username - bugme
Password - bugmenot

US Foreign Aid Explained

President Bush just gave $700 Million to Tanzania

Politicians and bureaucrats take money from your paycheck, in Florida, and send it to Politicians and bureaucrats in Washington who will then send it to Politicians and bureaucrats in Tanzania who will then spend your money helping people that need it in Tanzania.
If you believe that happens, PLEASE call me, I have some Florida beach property to sell you.

HD DVD concedes defeat to Blu-ray

If you bought Betamax and HD DVD, you’re a two time loser.

The Birthday Girl

This is the 21st year in a row that big brother has taken little sister out for dinner for her birthday.
At my new fav resturant of course

Off with her Head

One of our closest allies is about to murder a woman for being a witch.
Didn’t we used to do that, 200+ years ago?

What is the most Populated County in the USA?

It's almost twice as big as the 2nd place county.
10 Million people in one County.
More people in this one county than all but 8 of the states.

Bug Me Not

Don’t want to register on every freakin’ site on the web just to read an article.
Here is the solution.
You’ll need it below.

My New Favorite Restaurant

It’s only been open a few months and we just happened upon it.
Great food and free valet parking.
It's on Orange Ave in Winter Park
Try the duck breast.

The best pop band of the last 15 years has called it quits.

Simply Red was simply the best.
They were one of the top bands in Europe, South America and Japan for years but never did catch on here.
Their “A New Flame” was the best pop CD ever recorded.
What a voice. Mick lives on as a solo.


This is their last single.
"I'm Still Not Over You"


It's become a full fledged Simply Red tribute.
Just because he can sing doesn't mean he can dance.
"More" live from Hamburg.


This is it, unless I find another good one.
"Something Got Me Started"

One of the best to play the 88

Oscar Peterson died in December.
Not the best sound and it is a little out of sync but as always a very tight band.
You can hear his vocalizations while he was playing. That always struck me as funny.

Innovation of the Year

After years of promise and millions in investment, nanotechnology is starting to come to the market.
Popular Science’s innovation of the year.
The free market delivers again.

Do you want to drop off the grid?

This man tried to live completely anonymously for a week.

Poetic Justice

Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that used the eminent domain powers of New London, CT to take the homes of homeowners that refused to sell is facing their own property seizure via eminent domain.

Sometimes We Lose Perspective.

If the MSM is so wrong, so often, you have to question everything they say including the current state of our economic affairs.
From the libertarian Reason Foundation.

The Orlando Housing Market Continues to Suffer

For sellers the news is not good.
For bottom feeders the news is good.

The following graphs are from the Orlando Regional Realtor Association.

The worst month for 2007 was December.
It is continuing to get worse for sellers.