Birthday Parties For Little Ones By Jeff Dalby If you’re throwing a birthday party for your little one, you may feel like you have to compete with the other parents and their lavish party ideas. In reality, your child is going to love any party that you throw for him, making him the center of attention. Instead of renting a …
Bob and Ellie Tupper are not just beer drinkers, they are beer detectives! They started logging notes of what their work as sleuths revealed in 1979, and have been going hard it now for 35 years. What prompted the unassuming, mild mannered couple from Bethesda, Maryland to delve into darkened taverns, risk clandestine sidewalk cafe consummation, and to be tempted …
Are you looking to give you bathroom a unique look? Do you like to do your “bathroom routine” with ten pairs of eyes watching you? If so, and you have a spare $4500.00 hanging around, the Moody Aquarium Sink might be just the sink to bring your boring bathroom to life! The Moody Aquarium sink has a watertight built-in aquarium, …
Not Your Mother's Book On Being A Mom is a revealing collection submitted by mothers from all parts of the nation, each bearing their soul, and being honest about what being a mom is like for them.
Part 5 Of Ron Murdock’s Mental Wanderings And Random Thoughts How many people are stuck on a mental or spiritual hamster wheel, going around in a never ending circle, without any real direction to go in, without a reward in sight? Any pope that calls themselves Pious or Innocent must be delusional considering some of the things the Catholic Church …
Laws are designed to protect us, but sometimes they do the exact opposite. Case in point: 60-year-old Jason R. Humphreys of Seffner, Florida. It is a known fact that distracted driving kills far more people per year than driving while intoxicated, but the U.S. government apparently doesn’t value saving lives. So, while it’s perfectly legal to drive with a cell …
I’ve been curious about the feasibility of getting the Calgary to Edmonton passenger rail service up and running once again. So I asked those on the forums at trains.com to see what information I could get. Apparently it’s been a rumour that has been circulating since 1978. Speed of passenger trains would have to be kept at 39 miles an …
Dragon Training How To Train Your Dragon was the first movie I ever saw in 3-D. It was a great movie with great characters, a great story, and some genuine emotion. How To Train Your Dragon 2 has all of those elements but somehow doesn’t live up to the original. It’s five years later and the Viking Village of Berk …
The Voynich Manuscript For centuries the world’s greatest scholars have tried unsuccessfully to decipher the Voynich manuscript, a vellum codex that has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438). Claims that it is a hoax are to be expected when human intelligence comes up short, especially after baffling the best professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British codebreakers …
Despite all the amazing technological breakthroughs we’ve made, building better batteries remains the most serious challenge. No one can deny that fossil fuels are horrible for the environment (except their producers), but building an electric vehicle to replace gas guzzling spewers of death has been confined to the pages of science fiction by our supposed inability to create a battery …
“I wonder what would happen if I walked over and asked the little red haired girl to have lunch with me. She probably would laugh right in my face. It’s hard on a face when it gets laughed in.” – Charlie Brown Imagine what past generations would think of using on-line dating sites to meet someone. In our forefathers day …
SuperCat To The Rescue! Every once in a while I come across a, ‘OMG, that’s so awesome!’ story, such as one about an honor being given to a heroic cat. And not just any cat, a ferocious feline family ‘guard cat’. Now don’t get me wrong, I think it’d be great if the kitty got the keys to the city, …
When any group or individual is marginalized, it robs them of their dignity. It's hard to fathom the amount of contempt, libel and slander that comes out of...