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John Cornyn
For those of you who don't know who John Cornyn is, he is a US senator from Texas, and is the chair for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He was ranked the fourth most conservative senator by the National Journal in 2006, but considering the direction the Republican Party is going these days he mi… Continue

There was a time...
...when some of us grew up knowing one thing about portable electronics. The good stuff took D-Cell batteries so that they wouldn't die immediately. Of course you need eight D batteries to power that box (portable stereo for those of you too young to remember the term box, or boom-box). That cool keyboard you wanted to learn piano on? It could be plugged in, OR you could run it off of D batteries.
It didn't last forever. Soon the cool stuff was getting smaller, and AA… Continue

Hooray for Zaproot! Too long it has been gone from my TiVo. Now it's back in all of it's auto-downloading splendor! I just had to express my happiness at this recent turn of events!

Every day, I drive by a plethora of fences. Yard fences, ranch fences, chainlink fences.

Almost all of them are made of wood, or wood and wire. While wood keeps getting called a green material on various sites and in construction, I can't help but wonder why. How long does it take to regrow the trees? How long does it take for someone else to order wood for their construction? I just don't see the demand being less than the supply!

While in Costa Rica, one of our tour guides was sure to point… Continue

It's here! It's here!

I went out to get the mail, and instantly my day brightened when I saw that my Solio arrived from Buygreen!

First, and completely relevant to my previous postings, it was not overpacked! In fact, it came in a reused cell phone box.

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