YouTube - geriatric1927's Channel

I follow as a subscriber the Internet Granddad and this is a video he made singing Rose of My Heart. YouTube
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Flickr Photo Download: Earth From Mars

I just love a good NASA photograph and this one shows Earth from Mars as a dot. On a bad day, something like this can really help keep things in perspective and this is a good day. Flickr Photo Download: Earth From Mars

Old Time Radio Catalog: Classic Radio | Golden Age of Radio -

This is my favorite source of old time radio programs where I get old radio programs like Sherlock Holmes and The Shadow and listen to them on my mp3 player while walking or working out at Fitness Formula. Old Time Radio Catalog: Classic Radio | Golden Age of Radio -

SPACE.com -- Lost Soviet Reflecting Device Rediscovered on the Moon

This is a very interesting article since it reflects the obvious proof with the other laser reflectors that NASA did land on the moon several times since you can photograph from the earth, bounce off a man made object, and see shadows off photos of the landers. Mythbusters, one of my favorite programs on Discovery, covered this in detail and this is just one more neat thing to tie it up. I always had a soft spot for Buzz Aldrin and when a fellow pushed him at his age in his face to swear on a Bible had he really done his life's work, the fighter pilot part came to the surface and he decked the fellow. I can understand his frustration since I do not think once a world view is locked in in some minds, there is any way to budge it once the mind invests itself in the myth. A mind is a terrible thing to waste and a hard thing to change. Live long and prosper. SPACE.com -- Lost Soviet Reflecting Device Rediscovered on the Moon

Sistine Chapel

This is a 306 degree view of the Sistine Chapel with the ability to zoom in or turn in the view with a mouse click. Sistine Chapel

YouTube - Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

Some of my favorite actors doing one of my favorite characters. YouTube - Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

YouTube - effzee's Channel

Qigong done in a church basement by a parent waiting for his daughter's recital on the piano. At about 2 minutes into it you see the dragon swimming pose I learned recently. YouTube
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YouTube - 阳光气功Sunlight Qigong

Sunlight Qigong done by Master Nianzuli in a very relaxing, spring sunshine routine to promote health and well being. It is of interest that all great chi kung (alternate spelling) artists and masters seem to incorporate breathing into the movement and time the movement by the breathing. It does not help to force the move since you would not be as relaxed as possible. Tai Chi is full of movements that are spirals and circles and rounded joints without harsh turn with the goal that the real winner is the one most relaxed and smooth. Note how relaxed and how even the hands are not tense in all movements he makes. My teacher at Madisonville Community College teaches you to have better range of motion and better relaxation. I think this is one of those things that looks simple but is actually harder to actually do well. YouTube - 阳光气功Sunlight Qigong

YouTube - 逍遥步Tai Chi Step

This is a very relaxing spring walking scenery teaching where you combine relaxation, flexibility, and have a very nice spring sunlight day to enjoy the flow of walking. I actually have an entire book I have read called Tai Chi Walking. YouTube - 逍遥步Tai Chi Step

Nature fakers controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I always enjoy Teddy Roosevelt stories and in fact have read a book where Sherlock Holmes and Teddy as New York Police Commissioner investigate a mystery together. I always think of him as the kind of fellow who filled a room with personality whether a camp tent or Madison Square Garden. I think this is interesting since enjoyment of the art of nature and the scientific detachment point of view are still important. I think one of early influences in biology was Konrad Lorenz's book the Nature of Bees and King Solomon's Ring discussing animal behavior. I do think watching raccoons on my front porch there are genetic influences, instinct influences, and individuals still show behaviors that are specific to that individual where for example one likes to stand on its hind legs and look at traffic on the road go by and does it night after night while the others let him be the scout and guard and don't care to bother to look. It is similar in horse herds where one mare watches and the young horses lie down to sleep only if feeling safe and the head mare is watching out for them. It is not easy to be the head mare in a horse herd. Now we know decades later a lot more about animal behavior and how complex it can be the more intelligent the animal. I think the greatest modern animal experts were folks that studied the primates sometimes at great personal cost. Nature fakers controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

YouTube - Master Bow Sim Mark: Sword and Ribbon

YouTube - Master Bow Sim Mark: Sword and Ribbon On World Tai Chi Day, an artistic presentation of a very grand lady doing Tai Chi as an art form with ribbon and sword in that form. She is very advanced as you can tell as you watch. Here the tornado area as eased here while we are in still a tornado watch until 9 pm.

Patient Money - Caring for Hips and Knees to Avoid Artificial Joints - NYTimes.com

Patient Money - Caring for Hips and Knees to Avoid Artificial Joints - NYTimes.com One of the articles related to how Tai Chi and yoga as less impact sports that can help fitness without wear and tear on joints that do not repair themselves well. Care in youth can prevent artificial knees and hips in old age. Prevention is always better than surgery if you can help it. I was able to get to Dr. Scott Vander Ploeg's Madisonville Community College class site for World Tai Chi day between the tornado watch and thunderstorms. I also had the fun of doing Ward Off and sparrow and had my left hand go low and touch Moses the Great Dane's cold nose which was kind of fun. We did it at MCC near the Glema Mahr site by one of my favorite statues of a little boy Indian with bow behind him looking down sheepishly and a big ole bear looking him in the face entitled Repentence. I was near Magnolia blossuming trees with the wind up from the storms and was kind of neat. At 10 am we did 4 rounds to each compass direction and managed to get home before the storms hit. It was very good for me and to honor my classmates who have been blessed with a good teacher and a good art to learn for stress relief and for health. I completed my Trover Foundation Fitness Formula class and next week will be back to my own work out routine. I had a good teacher there and kept running into friends like Professor Chaney and his wife who used to help Veteran's at MCC. I had him for college chemistry and then inspected him when he worked at McCoy and McCoy Laboratory. He is the most talented person I know on languages both reading and speaking. This week Leonard Nimoy announced his retirement from acting. I hope he never retires from being the kind of artist that makes a difference. Live long and Prosper.

AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Life-Threatening Thunderstorms Friday Evening

There are many ways to prepare for a storm event. One is to follow the recommendations on www.ready.gov, or www.fema.gov, or simply keep up with your medicines, papers, emergency pack, emergency phone numbers, know your escape routes in case of flooding etc. More people get hurt in flooding in Kentucky during a storm event than lightening or actual tornadoes. A tornado can destroy one end of a town and have the other end appear normal. It can take one house and leave intact the one across the street. Your best purchase is to have a good working fresh battery weather radio and use it on a weekend like we are about to get in Western Kentucky. Be safe. AccuWeather.com - Weather News | Life-Threatening Thunderstorms Friday Evening

How polluted is U.S. drinking water? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Drinking water varies by state in quality and geology. Nature has a lot of power and one tornado can eat a brick home like match sticks as we have proven in Madisonville in the past. When a weather alert is activated, be sure and listen to it. How polluted is U.S. drinking water? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Tai chi for stiff joints - Health/Science - NewsObserver.com

It is nice to see scientific research for the use of Tai chi for arthritis victims, and fall prevention in the elderly. Tai chi for stiff joints -


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There is simply something kind of neat about this photograph found on digg. I tend to read it daily drinking my morning coffee. 0415wallpaperys-6_1600.jpg (1600�1200)

YouTube - Mind Meld part 8 of 8

I found this chat between Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner very touching and after all those years associated with each other I think very good philosophy too. YouTube - Mind Meld part 8 of 8

YouTube - Leonard Nimoy: The Origin of Spock's Greeting

One of the ways I got interested in science was my early exposure at Providence to watching on a black and white TV, Star Trek on its original live series and I tried my best to not miss a single episode. Now I even have the animated series on DVD. YouTube - Leonard Nimoy: The Origin of Spock's Greeting

YouTube - 太极桩 Tai Chi Zhuang Peggy Li

This is a very relaxing spring view of a very relaxed performer with the sunlight and trees blooming behind her. YouTube - 太极桩 Tai Chi Zhuang Peggy Li

Einstein's theory fights off challengers

I found this science link and found it had details about the Chandra mission. Happy Earth Day this month. Einstein's theory fights off challengers

Michelle Adams training on how to turn on the forehand with the hindquarters staying in place on Sparky a relative of the great Secretariat that has been a pleasure to know. Trinity Stables in Robards Kentucky has a very positive influence on the equine community in the area and on all our lives.

Journeys to the International Space Station - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Some fantastic photos of the space station training, missions, and views. It is still a miracle I can look up from my driveway doing Tai Chi at night and see the space station crossing over head as a bright dot in the sky. Journeys to the International Space Station - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Useful Links - New York Times Newsroom Guide to Useful Web Sites

There are few technology link pages as diverse and instantly useful as the New York Times technology link page for portals. Useful Links - New York Times Newsroom Guide to Useful Web Sites

A prominent political reporter digs into the obesity epidemic | Grist

There is a lot of research going on with how processed food and not just restaurant types get a child to adult eating habit that is unhealthy. A prominent political reporter digs into the obesity epidemic | Grist

EcoGeek - Brains for the Earth

Ecological techno links that deal with technology and environmental concerns. EcoGeek - Brains for the Earth

Environmental News and Information | MNN - Mother Nature Network

There are many links and interesting stories on the mother nature network. It is one of those web pages you start out at one layer and run down a lead to something that interests you. Environmental News and Information | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

As an old ERT man, I always thought this was my second favorite poem of Robert Frost since I have always like the last stanza walking a creek from an investigation by flashlight and star trying to get back to the state car to start driving home after a long day. One night looking for an oil spill, I remember using the squelch of my walkie talkie to keep the pacing animal just out of sight following me along the pathway always parallel, always out of sight, to stop following me. I think it was a coyote, but I will never know for sure.It was just another night's adventure and a long drive home afterwards, yet I can remember how the night smelled under the stars. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

The Road Not Taken - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

This is my favorite Robert Frost poem. This link includes a audio version you can listen to as you read. I always like best the last stanza. Yet I would add, it is important to at least take a road than stand still only. The Road Not Taken - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

A Robert Frost Exhibit

Since I am reviewing Mending Wall, it was kind of important to know what kind of wall Frost had on his own farm that created the poem. Note it is a natural stone wall like the Shakertown farmers used to open up pasture and row crop land. It moved hard things out of the way to safe edges to allow the open area to open up in effect. A Robert Frost Exhibit

Mending Wall - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

I am studying two works one by Toni Morrison called Recitatif and one by Robert Frost about walls. Of the two I had more experience with Frost whose the Road less taken poem meant more to me than Mending Wall. Still I do think for an iambic pentameter verse it has many interesting sides. I like the first line the best. I am a person who after being robbed actually ended up being the one behind bars since I have lockable cattle gates at the end of the driveway and burglary alarms with monitoring set for the house. Yet one thing is still certain, we need to be open as people, and cautious with wisdom knowing we all also need our space. Walls of stone also have another meaning to me. Many were made by picking up loose stones blocking pathways and horse routes or plowing zones and putting the stones from the land on edges out of the way. This is common in Shakertown where Irish stone masons made fences and boundary marks without mortar. A wall can have many meanings to keep out, to keep in, to mark territory, or preserve space, or to open up the middle ground. I am doing a book review Thursday night with friends and as a lover of books, it gives me something to look forward to on a Thursday night. Mending Wall - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

NASA - Image Gallery

On certain nights following the link on the NASA page you can watch the shuttle go overhead in Kentucky with it very bright when together and really neat when they are flying apart but in tandem. You can still see them with the naked eye on a clear night and it always gives me a kind of Star Trek moment in my driveway looking up and dreaming. No matter our problems on earth, I like to think we should dream looking up. NASA -
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Please do not change your password - The Boston Globe

Computer security is a fast growing topic. This article does a cost benefit analysis to password use and changing passwords. After being robbed, I spent hours updating passwords down to the modem. In effect I made a stolen laptop a brick the best I could and monitored all accounts to make sure there was nothing new. Even so just like a house, you can have burglar alarms, dogs, gates, extra locks, but if a deaf burglar wants in they can get in even if its loud and annoying. The key is for them to make a cost benefit analysis that you are too much trouble for too little potential award. I am not a big enough target to make it worthwhile. In the meantime, you do hte obvious things you can do. As an example, I do not play with chain letters which may have in an email a key logger, I do not open attachments from strangers. I do a full virus scan monthly when I defrag. I do quick scans weekly and check desk quarterly. I have all windows updates on automatic and do virus DAT file updates prior to connecting to the Internet on even the most harmless famous webpage in case of a passive lurking hazard there. In a world that says you will be attacked with a connection to the Internet within 20 minutes you simply have to use a firewall and virus program just like I lock doors and activate the alarms. You can do everything right as a user and still get bit simply because the bag guys are always out there thinking of a way to not do work honestly. The key is it seems lately that the most helpless, good folks, who are elderly or geek innocent are the ones being harmed and that always upsets me when the victims are like shooting a mockingbird as the novel said. Ideally, by using up to date software by the experts, and trying to do the right things, I can escape an attack, but the best way I am protected is I am too small to be worth the effort. I am not that attractive a target. I do like the addition of biometrics to a laptop and I added use of a cable lock to the laptop to make it even harder to be so handy to pick up. My dead bolt locks in broad daylight were defeated by a large rock through the glass den door. Low tech is still one of the most common ways to get to you. In a PC world where someone just wants to see photos of the grand children and look up the cost of a tractor on line, defenses should be effective and practical to enjoy the experience without having misery to worry every minute. On the other hand, if the thieves get caught in our justice system, I will be one supporting law enforcement and asking they not get out easily which means I will get to pay for feeding them and their medical care. Prevention of a theft is still cheaper. Luckily in Hopkins County we have a very good Sheriff's department and Computer Knights on South Main gives me very good IT support. Please do not change your password - The Boston Globe

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I think NASA has some of the best science sites on the web and this photo of the day illustrates one of the things that makes science such a cool thing to do. DRocketGard_craigcrawford.jpg (1350�900)

NASA - NASA's Unpiloted Global Hawk Completes First Science Flight

I have always been a fan of NASA and once took Mom to every NASA facility you can tour in the Southeast over a period of years. Mom was always most surprised that freeze dried astronaut ice cream was not cold. I was most impressed how fragile the Mercury capsule looked like and that is one reason folks like Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn remain heroes I am proud to have as Americans. I managed to work an hour at the Fitness Formula with our class and I can tell it in my arms. It is odd that working with four pound weights for 30 rep's, can get your arms and shoulders so sore. Oddly enough the one that is hardest for my arms is where you take the weights in front of you and then kind of pour out of a bucket movement. My arms burn like a big dog on that one. The second hardest is to lie back on your chair and bring your weights up and then together using chest muscles. Tai Chi work has helped me get more leg strength and more flexibility thankfully. I sometimes try to get in two Tai Chi rounds after class since it helps me get less sore afterwards. I was able to get to Belle our horse and my daughter in effect and groom a muddy side she laid in after the storm and she tried to groom my back while I brushed her. Horses are amazing creatures and I am still learning about them. What I don't know is much larger than what I think I know. At least I can fill water buckets, groom, check hooves, and know my horse loves her FOODS. Now work may be a four letter word, but at least she is happy. Sonny Hovious found she likes to eat Starlight peppermints. Live long and prosper. NASA -

NASA's Unpiloted Global Hawk Completes First Science Flight

LOL: The Life of Leo

I always like good writing, and one of my favorite technology reporters is Leo Laporte who consistently has something worth hearing or reading. In any genre of journalist that is the highest compliment I could give. LOL: The Life of Leo

BBC - Earth News - Fossil find shows Velociraptor eating another dinosaur

I always loved dinosaurs as a kid and made my dad buy gas at Sinclair gas station just so I could collect the Brontosaurus toys. It is a beautiful day in Kentucky with a wind, flowers blooming, my bird feeder full, and my cherry trees in full blossom. BBC - Earth News - Fossil find shows Velociraptor eating another dinosaur