After several years of drought in North Carolina, we’ve enjoyed a relatively mild and wet summer with only a few counties experiencing even mild drought. But the rest of the country is suffering. The Atlantic Magazine presents a disquieting set of NASA satellite images of the Mississippi River: the first image from 2011 shows a …
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One definition of stress is not accepting that things are the way they are. In other words, wishing things were different. De-stress Without Meaning | Perception Studios | Shannon Wilkinson, life coach & more Source: perceptionstudios.net
The Old Adventures of Superman
Apart from Stevereads and the Ihnatko Alamanac have to say on the matter, I have paid no attention to the DC Comics reboot of its entire line of superhero comics. So when I see references to it in the mainstream press, I pay a little more attention. The latest news is that Superman and Wonder Woman are …
Pop Songs are Sad Songs
Science proves that pop songs have indeed become more sad and more emotionally ambiguous.
How to unwrap a CD
When I first saw an Asheville CD store saleskid flip open the hinges of a CD case to remove that annoying sticker from across the top of the lid, I was gobsmacked. Once I saw it, it seemed so simple — why had no one ever shown me this before? Why had I not been …
If we really want to understand our fellow human beings accurately, we must allow them to surprise us, to contradict what we think we know about them. Like good scientists, we should cling to our theories about people only loosely and always be willing to revise them in light of new data. Judging A Book …
explore-blog: A tragedy of priorities: The most appalling infographic you’ll see today compares the cost of the Olympics vs. the cost of landing Curiosity on Mars. And yet, the future of space exploration is more precarious than ever.
Jailbreaking my Kindle Touch
To get screensaver images of my choice onto the Kindle Touch (the one without the special offers) required several steps: Jailbreaking the Kindle Touch Installing the screensavers hack Gathering the images Formatting the images Grouping and renaming the images Transferring the renamed images to the Kindle Touch I won’t go into exorbitant detail on how …
Kindle Touch screensavers
The Kindle Touch (non-ad supported) comes with 20 attractive gray-scale screensaver/wallpaper images. They’re fine, but after a while, I wanted to see some different images. One of the reasons I got the ad-free Touch was so that I wouldn’t be assaulted with an ad every time I picked up my Kindle to read something. I returned …
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