Killing Time

Maybe it won’t reach all the way to Heaven, but surely they must have been thinking something along these lines . . . .

‘Space Elevator’ Would Take Humans Into Orbit

My blog is one year old today. I still don’t have anything to say to the world, but I’m rather enjoying my little interactive “journal.” Sound and pictures make all the difference, I guess. Never could get much into keeping a journal without that dimension. I suppose it’s fun, too, that other people can comment on my stuff. Of course, that means my deepest, darkest secrets don’t make it onto these pages, unless someone thinks they can analyze that dream I had the other day and come up with something there.

Anyway, if you’re coming along for my ride, enjoy. I intend to.

Drunk deposits horse in bank for night
Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:25 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German man called on his bank for an unusual service when he was too tired and drunk to go home — he bedded down there for the night with his horse.

The man, identified as Wolfgang H. by German media, went to sleep next to cash machines in the local branch of the Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse in Wiesenburg southwest of Berlin after unsaddling his horse Sammy and closing the door.

A spokeswoman for the bank said that aside from an undesirable deposit made by his horse inside the building, the 40-year-old account holder had not breached any house rules.

“The horse was otherwise very well behaved and kept a good watch on his master,” she said Wednesday. “Perhaps we should have a supply of oats and water on the premises in future.”

Another customer discovered the horse and rider as he slept and informed police, who asked the man to leave.

A police spokesman said that since the horse’s droppings had been removed, the matter was now closed.

Maturing cheese becomes Internet star
Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:08 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) – A large English cheddar cheese has become a star of the Internet, attracting more than 1 million viewers to sit and stare at it as it slowly ripens.

First placed in front of a webcam in late December, the Westcombe cheddar from West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers leaped to public attention in early February and has since attracted viewers from 119 countries.

“The hits went over 1 million this morning. It has been a real challenge keeping the cheese up and running with all the interest it has generated,” a spokesman for the company running the website, www.cheddarvision.tv, said Wednesday.

Watchers have tuned in from as far afield as Albania and New Zealand, although most are from the United States where a school has even sent in pictures of two crocodiles to guard the cheese.

“The whole idea was to show people how real food is made — and it seems to be working,” cheesemaker Tom Calver said. “It takes a year for the cheese to mature. This is not fast food. It is slow food.”

Yes, I am a hopeless gadget geek.

trying out the mobile blogging possibilities

No such thing.

So, what do you do when the pastor preaches on the same text you just posted on your blog? Well, sit up and pay attention, of course.

1. One book that changed your life:
Toss up between Romans and Hebrews.

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
Honey From Stone: A Naturalist’s Search for God, Chet Raymo.

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
If I couldn’t have the whole Bible, I’d settle for The Gospel of John.

4. One book that made you laugh:
When I Was 7 and 8 (by my daughter).

5. One book that made you cry:
A Sorrow In Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh, Alan W. Eckert

6. One book that you wish had been written:
Dunno.

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
The Woman’s Bible, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8. One book you’re currently reading:
Treasures from Heaven in the Stuff of Earth, Babbie Mason.

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking (It’s been on the shelf for a year now. Probably by the time I get to it it will be old news.)

All I ever envision is Tiny Tim and Tiptoe Through The Tulips. No more.

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble.

Dennis Fakes