I have a Ph.D. degree. I love to travel, visit museums, national parks, and places few people know. I share my travel stories and more on this blog.
Read moreI just bought a box of jumbo-size Sparboe Farms eggs at Walmart. Surprise, surprise! When I arrived home and opened the box, a bitsy teeny weenie small white egg made my jaw drop — a non-jumbo egg in a jumbo box of Sparboe Farms eggs! It was probably a mistake….
Read moreESRI released a beta version of its “Make a Map” application that website folks/bloggers can play around and embed on their sites/blogs. The ESRI prototype application intended to highlight the ArcGIS API for Flex, the great demographic data available from ArcGIS Online, as well as the “Map Sandwich” web map…
Read moreI was watching Good Morning America this morning and saw actress Valerie Bertinelli cooking a low-calorie soup recipe. Bertinelli got the soup recipe from Jenny Craig, of which she is a spokeswoman. Wanna lose 40 lbs like Bertinelli? Recipe is below. Ingredients: – 1 1/4 cup eggplant, peeled and cubed…
Read moreJoin the South Dakota Giant Vision Awards 2009! This is a good opportunity for those students who have great business plans but don’t have the finances to start the business off. According to Hon. Mike Rounds, the Governor of South Dakota:
Read moreThe three MIT students are doing real remote sensing, but in the cheapest way. No need to buy expensive satellite images to have photos of the earth from the upper atmosphere or near-space. You can do it yourself for under $150. I visited the students’ Project Icarus website and they…
Read moreWas it really too much too soon for President Obama to win the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize? There were 205 nominations and the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to give the prize to a president whose presidency is just few months old. What has Obama done to deserve the award?…
Read moreIs there really water on the moon? NASA will soon have answers as the world awaits for the historic event that will happen tomorrow, October 9, 2009. NASA will bomb the moon to see what is underneath the lunar surface. You can be part of the big blasting event (LCROSS…
Read moreGrab a copy of The Peg Leg Update volume 1, issue 2 from few locations in Brookings. If you haven’t read the first issue, you should. The Peg Leg Update second issue has improved a lot compared to the first print. The inside layout gives more good-looking pages, presented in…
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