Obama’s budget for next year… $3 trillion in fact and an additional $250 billion this year to make it $1.75 trillion. That’s a lot of money. Ah but “he vowed to slash federal spending by $2 trillion.” That makes me feel so much better. Whatever is he going to slash? Pri...

The latest edition of my weekly updates on my life and adventures in the City of Angels. This one’s a little late, as I had a busy weekend, but I promised to bring you the goods each and every week, and so I do. I spent much of this week buying furniture and various items for my new place, and...

This is just plain cool, welding skin shut instead of using sutures, staples or glue. And it was developed in Israel. Naturally. As was my Copaxone. But Katzir and his team use another technique called “laser welding” in which biological glue - a special albumin protein produced by the I...

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, hands down. Well, ok, I also celebrate a series of personal holidays on the day after Valentine's, the day after Easter, the day after Halloween, and the day after Christmas. Why hinge your emotions on the uncertainty of a holiday when you have the certainty of a...

D-Does anyone have Culture Club's Karma Chameleon? For some reason I just can't find my file anywhere and I'm having serious cravings. Feeling incredibly lazy, so instead you get a tentative loot picspam. These first two are a bunch of Reborn character mascot swing charms. The top is the more recent...

um meine nichte mach ich mir keine sorgen: du darfst zu meinem geburtstag kommen aber NUR wenn du mir ein geschenk mitbringst hat sie mir gestern abend heimlich am telefon gesagt, ohne dass die mutter das weiss, denn für solche sprüche hätte es händi-händi-patschi gegeben im metaforischen sinne...

I've just spent most of my free time over the last couple of days playing with my recently delivered Neuros OSD. As I already mentioned, I had intended to buy a small PC for under the TV, so we could watch - and listen to - files saved on the network or streamed from the internet, and send video fro...

The Neuros OSD is a deceptively simple looking device. It is a recorder that will record ANYTHING as a QUICKTIME Mp4 video file … That’s right, ANYTHING that has RCA outputs and or S-Video, the Neuros OSD can record. Cable TV Satellite TV DVD VCR TiVo DVR Video Game Screens Anything R...

Personally, I'm a huge fan of social shopping sites. Several times per year our family, just like everyone else, is tasked with purchasing various gifts for relatives, Christmas, birthdays and other such moments. Like most guys out there, I rarely, if ever know what to buy! Enter social shopping sit...

Spatial cognition research is a major interest of mine. This one's a doozy. From ScienceDaily, Jan 3, 2008: Gay Men Navigate In A Similar Way To Women, Virtual Reality Researchers Find ScienceDaily (Jan. 3, 2008) Gay men navigate in a similar way to women, according to a new study from researchers a...