Techfun

I used to just worry about the street violence in this country and road rage and other media induced fears - now I have to be on the lookout for exploding whales.
Read the story with photos on Yahoo!.

As opposed as I am to many genetically modified foods and crops and predatory seedforms this is genetic research at work in a way I can appreciate. I know much of what the plant does could be done via technology but think about how usefull this would have been for the people in [...]

Axis of stupidity member Focus on the Family is telling President Bush that government endorsement of religion must come with no strings attached…
This story is especially apropros today as I’m writing from Colorado Springs where Focus on the Family is based. In response to President Bush’s call for more "faith-based" program support from the government [...]

While reading the SF Gate Morning Fix today I found via a link from a link this nice little recipe archive. It’s from Planet Organics - a home organic produce delivery service in California (much like the local NJ one that  uses) so most of the recipes have a distinctive vegetal leaning. http://www.planetorganics.com/recipes/recipes.asp I have grabbed [...]

Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle begins, how does his first term add up?
20 January 2004
232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and January 2004
501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning of the war - so far
0: Number of American combat [...]

All the finalitlies and such were completed without a problem and we were finished by 2:00pm.
Here are some pictures of the inside: http://www.techfun.org/newhouse I wasn’t expecting to have these posted on LJ until later tonight or tomorrow morning but all of our evening of settlement/looking in corner celebratory plans fell through at the [...]

We did the final walkthrough in the house last night.
It was amazing how many things we spotted (and liked) that we had missed the first time around. We had only seen the place for under 30 minutes before making an offer. Many of the rooms were bigger than we remembered and we finally [...]

until we get to take possession of our house. We settle Thursday at half past noon.
We are doing the walk through on Wednesday either on our lunch hour or that evening. That will be the second time we have been in the house. We decided to buy it within minutes of [...]

We now have a third cat - her name is Josie.
One of my employees had adopted her from a shelter about a year ago. He grew bored with having a cat and was going to take her back to the shelter. That upset me so I talked to Brian and we decided [...]

My family is truly strange and bizarre and generally not in a fun way.  Most of my immediate family are worse than the rest.  The words hypocritical, racist, intolerant, homophobic, and bigot all spring to mind readily.  There is a reason I left home so young and a reason I live at least a thousand [...]