Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health, interesting facts, vegetarian diet on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On October 12 I stopped eating all refined sugar and flour. I went cold turkey, which for me is usually pretty easy. I just set my mind and say ‘from this day forward’… and then I do it. But I was not prepared for how difficult this would be.
What precipitated my decision was the evening [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environment, food, health, interesting facts, movies, news, vegetarian diet on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite TV shows when I was little was Flipper. It was about a wild dolphin who befriended this family and did amazing dolphin stunts for them while enforcing the law, rescuing people at sea and taking care of Sandy and Bud, the two main characters in the show.
Here’s Flipper, actually Flipper was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environment, food, health, interesting facts, movies, news, vegetarian diet on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday we went to see the movie Food, Inc. It’s not exactly a fun light-hearted movie, but on the other hand, if you eat food and live in America you should try to see this movie as soon as possible.
The movie exposes the industrialized food system in America and the effect it has on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged interesting facts on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Awhile ago I posted an entry on Swami Atma’s blog about the book “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman. I really enjoyed the book which described what changes would take place in the world if all the people were suddenly gone.
Now on the History channel there is a show called Life After People. It’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged interesting facts, music, videos on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some time ago I posted an entry about two musicians playing Ronda Alla Turca on one guitar. Here’s another one, this time one musician playing Für Elise by Beethoven on two guitars:
Back in my piano playing days I played Für Elise in a recital. It was the only recital I ever [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged interesting facts, photos, travel on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week was spring break week. We didn’t do anything all week, until yesterday when we decided to go to Enchanted Rock State Park. It’s near Fredericksburg and about a 2 hour drive from our house.
The Rock is a huge, pink granite exfoliation dome, that rises 425 feet above ground, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged interesting facts, news on February 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Recently US and Russian satellites collided in space. Supposedly it made a huge debris field which is now putting other satellites at risk. The US government tracks all space debris larger than a football, but they missed that this would happen.
The European Space Operations Centre has put together some images showing just how much stuff [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged interesting facts, news, photos on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple days ago Nasa released some new pictures of Saturn taken from the side opposite earth by the Cassini spacecraft. Here is what the exaggerated color photo looks like and what they had to say about it:
The robotic Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn recently drifted in the giant planet’s shadow for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged environment, interesting facts, news, photos, quotes, yoga on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m back after a long delay in posting. Hope you all had a great Holiday season. We did.
In old news, here was our Christmas palm tree and presents before we opened them:
I also wish you all the best for 2009.
We’ve been busy here.
Our webdesign business is going great – we have more jobs than anticipated [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged health, interesting facts on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting (and short) quiz you can take to find out how efficient your body is. The quiz assumes you consume 1 gallon of liquid food mixed with water and then it tells you approximately how far you could walk before you run out of gas; or how many miles per gallon your [...]
