The sky has been putting on a good show this week – unusual weather for August in Oklahoma. The first photo was taken on Wednesday, the other two on Monday. view large view large view large NOTE: The top of the tallest grass in the third photo is about six feet (two meters) tall. To [...]

I haven’t clicked on a single one of these links at Quid Plura? but I will because they all look very interesting.

Making pottery is one of the many crafts I’ve thought I’d like to try. I don’t think I’d be very good at it but that isn’t what’s stopping me; it’s the cost of equipment. Yeah, I could take a class to see if it’s really something I want to do before taking the plunge but [...]

If you’re not a Mythbusters fan you’ll have no idea why I’m linking to this photo of a woman and a baby (and if you are a fan you’ve probably already seen it) but what I really want to talk about is the name: Stella Ruby. Now there’s a name I never thought would come [...]

Knitting for Spies – Interesting little bit of history about the connection between knitting and espionage, including codes hidden in knitting and secret documents in knitting bags. Includes several vintage images and a link to a pattern for a Morse Code vest.

Jessica Palmer reminisces about shopping for back to school supplies – in the 1980′s. Gosh, I feel old. When I was in high school nobody used backpacks. We carried our books in our arms. In fact, if anyone used a bag of any kind to carry their books they would be teased and called a [...]

Sorry I’ve been procrastinating about this installment in the series. I have lots of pictures of northeast Oklahoma but most of them are of the same places and I wanted to go out and take some pictures of some different places. I haven’t done that yet but I will definitely post more later. Here in [...]

Needed: A 12 Step Program for NFL quarterbacks who can’t stay retired. Honestly, one of the things I’ve always liked about Brett Favre is his enthusiasm for football. He loves to play and that’s a good thing. So even though the “I’m retired; No I’m not; Yes I am; No I’m not” routine is annoying, [...]

Have you ever noticed that you can live with something that does not work well for a long, long time but when you finally decide to order a new one, what you have easily put up with for months or years is suddenly intolerable? A couple of years ago we decided to try a wireless [...]

I’ve always had a feeling that there was something wrong with people who are obsessed with healthy eating. I was right and it has a name: orthorexia nervosa The condition was named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, and is described as a “fixation on righteous eating”. [...] Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules [...]

Mike Rowe of the Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs has a website. Well of course he has one; doesn’t everyone? I just never thought to look for it before. It’s an excellent site – lots of articles and videos on a wide variety of topics. Don’t miss the Brown Before Green section.

One of my favorite things about the Web is the bizarre and quirky websites I find occasionally. I’ve been re-visiting the charmingly weird Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell. It’s a simple, old-school website. Each of the “entrances” has its own page with a small photo and short, entertaining description. A few examples: Elite – [...]

What a week! (last week) I’m not sure I even remember all of it. I drove to Arkansas to visit my mother. That was Thursday I think. Everything else was either routine or unnecessary. Oh… Tuesday I took the cat the vet. I guess that was necessary and not routine. But as for the unnecessary, [...]

The River of Five Colors Caño Cristales has been referred to as the “river of five colors”, “the river that ran away to paradise,” and “the most beautiful river in the world.” It is indeed a unique biological wonder. For most of the year, the Caño Cristales is indistinguishable from any other river, with a [...]

Hah! Now I’m probably going to have that song stuck in my head all day along with the image of those four singing it. As earworms go that’s far from being one of the worst but I will have to try not to burst out laughing at inappropriate moments. Found on Twitter

I suppose that folks who don’t like Vivaldi will consider this proof that the insult, “he wrote the same concerto 500 times” is true; to me it’s proof that it’s not. Funny how we hear the same music in completely different ways, isn’t it?

Despite what the headlines say the statue is going to be displayed in an art museum in Norman, Oklahoma. So we can drive around town without worrying about being flashed. — here Waste time elegantly, we always say. — there Putting a fart app on your iPhone does not turn the faceless gadget into a [...]

OMG Nathan Fillion is on Twitter! I know that shouldn’t be surprising. Everyone’s on Twitter. I’ve just never thought of looking for or following any celebrities. I’m really tempted to follow him. Or maybe I’ll just bookmark his page and look at it once in a while like we used to do way back in [...]

The original versions of the traditional fairy tales most of us are familiar with were not the kind of stories today’s parents would want to read to their kids. (Warning: big annoying pop-up) I remember buying a book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales when my kids were little. My mother had read them to me and [...]

I suppose it had to happen. Twitter opera. The libretto is being written by Twitter users. Actually, that sounds like fun. I think I want to hear the completed work. Via The Daily Grail

It might be possible to determine the colors of dinosaurs. Scientists thought they’d never know what colors the dinosaurs were, since fossils are rock-colored and even recently-discovered mummified scraps of the animals are faded. Jakob Vinther, a graduate student at Yale, was researching fossil feathers when he discovered that melanin granules survived in their original [...]

What’s In a New Logo? – I don’t remember ever seeing Apple’s old logo. That was very cool. I guess I can see why they wanted to change; the current one is simple, recognizable and modern but the old would have been more likely to cause me to have positive feelings about Apple. I hadn’t [...]

Airships and Tentacles – Beautiful and fascinating fantasy art, including steampunk art. It’s hard to pick favorites but I have to say I love the ones by Myke Amend. His website has desktop wallpapers, e-cards, and lots more cool steampunky stuff. Other favorites are the painting by James Ng and the one by Vimark. Sometimes [...]

Part I Another nice place to see in Oklahoma, not far from Talimena, is Robbers Cave State Park. We were only there for several hours and went on a short hike but there are a lot of things to do there, all the usual outdoorsy stuff as you can see from the webpage. This rock [...]