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I am probably the only person who thinks fall is the worst time of the year. Guys usually love fall. Lots of girls do too. They way I see it, at least in winter (yuk) , you can think , in the back of your mind, that Spring is next--right around the corner--so there is some hope. But during Fall, what lies ahead....nothing but Winter--the worst of all--plus I really do believe that I have the decreasing day length depression syndrome. Lots of plants do. That is exactly what triggers many plants to go into their dormant stage, or change growth patterns. So maybe I should order this : Light Therapy Visor It is pretty pricey, so I am looking into maybe making one. I found some interesting info about light and mood and mentions of certain real controled experiements-- but on a web page with a Jimi Hendrix background. This site tells of things to watch out for when attempting to make your own light for raising your spirits.

From a press release sent to me by Richard Gulley at Univ. of Tenn Space Institute last weekend. Oct 20, 2005 CLEAR SKIES, SOARING GLIDERS OPEN UT SPACE INSTITUTE’S SPECIAL EVENTS TULLAHOMA, Tenn. B Four gliders sailing in the blue Tullahoma skies – including a two-seater that carried several spectators aloft Thursday – was a “perfect prelude to one of the Space Institute’s most cherished traditions,” said Dr. John E. Caruthers. Caruthers, University of Tennessee associate vice president and chief operating officer of UTSI, thanked Dr. Gary A. Flandro, himself a glider pilot, for “inviting his friends and associates to join us for this Miller Wilder Glider Event .” Flandro, who holds UTSI’s Boling Chair of Excellence in Space Propulsion, flew his own glider for the show before delivering the 28th Quick-Goethert Lecture in the Institute’s auditorium a few hours later. One of those hitching a ride with Dr. Peter Solies in the Institute’s glider was Prof...

Brett Herbst, a Brigham Young University agribusiness graduate who grew up on an Idaho farm,got the idea from a similar venture he had read about in a farming magazine. Brett's original labyrinth in American Fork, Utah was the largest corn maze created in the western United States. It drew 18,000 people in only three weeks during the fall of '96. Ten years later, The MAiZE has grown into the world's largest cornfield maze company. Now - 840+ mazes since its founding, a Guinness record and five countries later this guy has a nifty, creative business. In 2005 his company MAiZE was responsible for 165+ mazes in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Europe. Unfortunately, due to the affects of Hurricane Katrina, the Maize near us, at Lucedale, Mississippi , near the Alabama / MS line on Tanner Williams Road is currently closed. There are seven in Tennessee, one at the Agricenter, and a fancy one near Rock City. A quick look at the U.S. map shows that there are corm field mazes you can ...

When Adrian Hanft isn't art directing at Huebner Petersen in Loveland, Colo., he's at home building cameras out of Legos. And they work! With film-advance knobs that turn, built-in film counters, and viewfinders, these image arrestors are hardly toys. He even creates working shutter systems by rigging ballpoint pens to old floppy discs. Click the pen once; the shutter opens. Click it again and it closes. Be sure to check out his latest creation: a medium-format Pinhole Camera. http://www.foundphotography.com/photothoughts

Only one rainy day since Katrina's landfall way back on Aug 29th. Above is the forcast for today and the rest of the week. It has been like this for 2 months. Only difference has been that the temp dropped about 15 degrees all of a sudden a few days ago. Pretty dry around here. Glorious days though.

Guess what just turned 34? 10/21/2005 03:19:00 PM Posted by Paul Buchheit, Gmail Engineer in his blog on Gmail It's difficult to pin down the exact origin of email, but in October 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson chose the '@' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email.

In the 2nd half of the 20th Century hanging was the accepted method of executing those found guilty of committing a capitol crime. The exception was Utah where the condemned were given the choice of the gallows or a firing squad. The convicts overwhelmingly chose the bullet over the rope. The rope didn't always work out too well--- In 1886 a New York State Legislature Commission was established to study humane methods of capitol punishment. 1888, the New York Legislature passed a law establishing electrocution as the state's method of execution. Realize that the Edison Light Bulb was invented only 9 years earlier. This was definitely new technology. Alabama's elecrtic chair, "Yellow Mama", seems to be the only yellow U.S. Elecrtic Chair. It was painted with surplus paint from the Highway Dept which had a testing facility adjacent to Kilby Prison in Montgomery. It was used for 153 elecrtocutions between 1927 and 1965. You can see and read about the elecrtic chairs...

Kentucky lands grant to protect bingo halls from terrorists- this should help protect us for sure: Kentucky has been awarded a federal Homeland Security grant aimed at keeping terrorists from using charitable gaming to raise money. The state Office of Charitable Gaming won the $36,300 grant. The idea is to keep terrorists from playing bingo or running a charitable game to raise large amounts of cash. Great idea--huh ?

...and maybe get a few other health benefits. At least I'm gonna try. I got this electronic bio-feedback gizmo from my doc that re-trains you to breathe more deeply and much more slowly. Called Resperate. (That is 'desperate' with a "R") You put the little blue sensor around your chest, headphones on your ears, and press start for an aprox 15 min session. You are suppose to do this at least 2 or 3 times a week. The thing actually has FDA approval for reducing blood pressure after a bunch of medical studies proved it could. Cost seems to be about $300. Mine is on loan. One website I saw describes how it works in this way: InterCure has patented a fundamental method for manipulating biological rhythmic patterns (e.g., respiration, movements of small blood vessels, peristaltic gastrointestinal movements, etc.) using external rhythmic patterns (e.g., sound, light, pressure etc.). Together with additional proprietary technologies, the Company has developed the "...

Tired of the same old off-the-rack costumes? Want to get inspired to create something wonderful for next to nothing? One fellow named Rob Cockerham has documented for years his zany costume construction in step by step photos and clear instructions. He has won some way cool prizes at parties too. I loved reading about the construction of the photo flashing Paparazzi Costume --using discarded disposable camera cases that he takes apart and re-wires to flash in unison. It was a winner. You can see the costumes of others at the parties he went to. Rob has also made some fun things that are not costumes, but just plain fun sculptures. Just look around the site. Many of his creations are made from light weight unsightly foam signs from get rich quick schemes that he gathers off of utility poles. As a result, he has a whole page of letters he has received from people who were ripped off by these schemes. Another whole aspect of his creativity is to determine how much is inside. This includes...

I never would have expected it. Never. WebmasterWorld site has been down for a couple days now....and on top of that it happened right at the beginning of a Google shuffle of search results indexing. For webby types, called SERPS. Anyway, The owner of WebmasterWorld managed to shuffle a bare framework of the WMW forums over to another site as best as possible till things can be repaired upline where the problem occured. He couldn't put a link or anything up--so it was interesting to see who found the alternate site and how quickly and so forth. I think this is an example of a type of problem where the usefullness of blogs and engines that search and index blogs can be really the solution. By searching, I found the temp. alternate site in no time from people discussing it in other forums and blogs. Going to the alt. WMW site and finding it off the air was sorta like going to the class that was moved across the campus and no note was on the door but somehow the clever people were fin...

Now you can view zip code outlines on Google maps thanks to one soul's creative application at http://maps.huge.info/ This is really handy for certain things. On this screenshot of my zip code you will notice the horizontal line thru the middle, sorta. Well, that is the Intercoastal Waterway--guess they are just telling us that the Post Office is not going to deliver mail to passing barges. You can even add more than one outline to a map, like in a city where zip code areas are small cause people live densely. The app will just continue to outline the zip code areas as you type them in. And if you are the type of person who enjoyes research and such--have a look at http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/index.htm Good gosh almighty...you can use this site as a porta for Street Names by ZIP, Canadian Addresses, Labor Statistics by ZIP code, get the monthly home sales and selling price by ZIP Code, get information about all public schools by name, city, state or district, find the cl...

Bro Stephen agreed to serve as T-Shirt (and hat) model !! He will probably be receiving calls from Modeling Agencies this week after this is published. I needed photos for www.Gulf-Shores-Shrimp-Festival.com where we sell the 'Offical Shrimp Festival' merchandise after the event. I need to get an list of what is left today tho--I don't want to offer stuff that we sold out of.

Fabulous weather, not a cloud in the sky all four days...

Blogger seems to be replacing one photo with another, so I am putting these in seperate posts.

With fabulous weather here on the Gulf Coast, a big crowd showed up for the first day of Shrimp Festival. This was great, since gas prices, Katrina, Ivan, and all the other recent events looked like maybe SF might be the party that no one came to.