We have all seen our fair share of DVRs, however, Google has released one set-top box OS that is sure to gain popularity. Google TV is not a set-top box, but more of an operating system, as on Google’s website, the products listed are a Sony TV with Google TV built in, or Logitech […] Continue Reading…
This afternoon, after a long awaited rain finally hit (possibly redeeming local weather forecasters), I discovered that my small plot of maize is suffering from an infestation of Smut. In researching this Smut I discovered that Idaho grain farmers are facing a new disease potentially more harmful, because it is attacking wheat & barely […] Continue Reading…
Today, twelve days after the official start of Autumn, the trees in my yard started dropping their leaves. The family across the street has a tree that starts dropping it’s leaves before Fall officially begins. His front yard now has a nice thick carpet of leaves, and […] Continue Reading…
Brand new Red Cross Hummer seen in the Fred Meyer parking lot in Pocatello, Idaho.
General Motors has been donating Hummers to the American Red Cross since 2004, along with a lot of cash ($100,000 in 2004). GM claims the vehicles help with disaster response. I can see the Hummer H1 […] Continue Reading…
Ok, I was watching a local East Idaho TV news program. They ran a national story about getting sick from reusable grocery bags. What got me was in their intro to the story they said that plastic grocery bags just ended up in the landfill. Well not if you recycle them!
Today I was dropping off my recyclables at the dumpsters next to Pocatello City Hall, when a city employee told me I was wasting my time dropping off the glass and styrofoam. He said the glass and styrofoam dumpster went straight to the landfill.
This is not the first time I’ve heard this. Many years […] Continue Reading…
Europeans were told that a Mumbai style terrorist attack in Europe was foiled, do they care? Hell no! Why? Because, according to strikers in Latvia, people are dying because of the drastic measures undertaken by their government to deal with their crashing economy. In other words, Europeans are more afraid of their governments […] Continue Reading…
27 September 2010
Signs of a coming food crisis are everywhere. Most notably at the source, the farms that grow the basic crops. Here on the east side of Idaho, farmers had to deal with a spring that was too cool too long, resulting in crops being planted weeks late, and then a short summer […] Continue Reading…
The United States has been facing an education crisis for the past 10 years, getting worse, and worse. Now, 2010, many are thinking of ways to fix the education system. However, most arguments are for one of three probable issues; techers, students, or administration.
Teachers
From my experience in school, more and more of the good […] Continue Reading…