I am writing this post from my daughter’s new touch. It is pretty sweet and I may need to go on eBay and pick one up. My old pal
tungsten just does not compete. Although typing is not quite up to what I like with my laptop. But I think it would beat what I am doing now.

I have come to the conclusion that there is a critical mass level on facebook. With too few people whom you have friended you will not tend to spend any time on the site because there is too little to read about and too few people who read your posts. At a certain point, and I don’t know where that is (I think it is different for everyone) you will have the right amount of “friends” and be very free with your posts. Then you reach a certain tipping point. You become “friends” with people on facebook that you really are not friends with. You have people who not only do not share your religious-political-social mores but will be just fine in telling you how you are stupid in your thoughts and opinions on such things. Nothing wrong with that per se, differing viewpoints are good and will either persuade you to change your thoughts or get you to think them through enough to be firm in believing them. but it will reach a point where you will be uncomfortable with the things people say. When this happens you have reached a certain level where you will be forced to do one of two things. You either edit who can see things that you post, or you cease to be as open and honest about what you think and believe. You may not have reached this point and it may be a lot higher for some people than for others, but keep adding people as “friends” and you will. Personally I have been just fine with ignoring several people who have sent me “friend” requests because they are not really my friends but merely people I am ever so faintly acquainted with. But that is just my opinion and I am sure someone will disagree with it and tell me about it.

Since Radio waves travel out from the earth at the speed of light and bounce off dense objects, shouldn’t we be able to focus a finely tuned radio receiver on planets 20 light years away and listen to live broadcasts from the 1940′S that were never recorded?

this video is incredible but also troubling at the same time. Incredible that we have this technology and abilities. Troubling that if we were ever to have to rebel against our own government this is what we would be facing.
last_campfire.wmv

I drove down the street tonight. About a 1/4 mile from my house was a large “Construction ahead” type of sign. It looked like this.

It alternated between this and a phone number for witnesses to call with any information. Tomorrow it will have been a week and I don’t think the police have anything. If they do they are certainly disguising it well.

I saw the police car, or rather it’s blur, fly past my house yesterday while I was home for lunch. Lights and siren whaling. I thought, “Hmm he’s in a hurry. Must be a bad wreck.” A little over an hour later I returned to work and something was wrong. There were a lot of people in the office. I asked what the party was and received scowls. Only a few minutes earlier One of our employees had answered the phone and was called away by the State Police. You see her sister and brother-in-law, had been murdered only half a mile from my house. I called my wife at this point as she would be heading home from her job, and I told her to lock the doors and load the pistol. When she later left for her other job which would only take an hour and a half, she wisely took our teen-age girls with her. Last night I slept with the loaded pistol on my beside table. When I woke this morning I looked and saw that I had laid it on top of my bible. “Hmm.” I thought to myself “We sure aren’t Obama people are we?”