Over the course of seven years, the USDA has paid 1.1 billion dollars to dead farmers. 170,000 dead farmers.
Best of all, “Of the identified payments to deceased farmers’ estates or businesses, 40 percent went to those who had been dead more than three years, and 19 percent went to those who had been dead for […]
Archive for July, 2007
This is the time of year when people that live around large areas of dry acreage start to get nervous. “Dry Lightning” has been a real problem this summer, and the West has had record numbers of brush fires.
We’ve had a few in our area, and a few nights back had one in the foothills […]
Great cartoon by Tony Auth of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
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We used to have a Ford Explorer. I say used to, because of course, we don’t anymore.
My wife bought that car before we met, and went on many road trips and adventures with it. If she was driving and hit a bad bump in the road, she would say “sorry!” and pat it on the […]
Not too long ago I shot some time-lapse sequences of the clouds over the mountains from my house. I’ve put the sequences (saved as flash movies) on the tutorial section on my gallery site.
These were a lot of fun to shoot and put together. I had to keep the dogs and children away from the […]
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