“The Jig of Life” by Kate Bush has been playing in my mind since I got up this morning. It has had an effect. I planted more lavendar, and golden thyme, and french thyme, and some patches of mondo grass, and a new annual called a chartreuse leafed lemon talinum (which has tiny little pink beads on its stalks that are supposed to erupt into tiny rose-pink flowers). Then, I got into water, namely our little pond. I mean I…
Airline flight tickets have become really, really expensive. We have canceled our planned trip to France this summer, and are planning our long-overdue family vacation at the domestic level. Suppose you’ve paid for airline tickets, and then you find the same flight a week later for less cash. Is there anything you can do about it? It turns out that there is. United, JetBlue, USAir, Southwest and Alaska will give you a voucher for the difference in price – if…
Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Endangers Human Life and Health – Take Action through June 4th Statement from Physicians for Social Responsibility The Department of Energy has proposed a program called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership to resume nuclear waste reprocessing. This program promotes new nuclear power plants with the misleading claim that nuclear waste reprocessing is like “recycling†and will reduce the dangers of nuclear waste. Nuclear waste reprocessing is a dirty, dangerous and expensive process that creates some new (and…
Would you like to see your name written in beautiful Arabic letters? The author of My Name in Arabic is offering framed tags for free. I’ve reduced them 50% for display here, but I’ve got the originals for email signatures. PLEASE stop requesting me to do these for you! I don’t know Arabic – click on the above link for requests. Here is the simple image for “Heidi”: Heidi has no equivalent I know of in Arabic. However, it’s funny…
I have no idea how I could have missed “Yoda.” It’s obviously been around for a long time. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMpDHEVaI1k[/youtube] I don’t know whether to sing along or gag. Interesting.
What a pain. The BlogMad site has a notice that says it’s registered but “under construction.” I have various links to it throughout my site, and now I don’t know if I should bother yet to take them down or wait a few days to see if the site reappears. How about some sort of announcement, people? Comment if you have any idea what’s going on.