NASA

Happy Birthday NASA!

Pepé Le Pew

Wow I cant believe that it has been a week since the last post. Tonight I was sitting at our new patio table waiting for company when I heard something ahead of me. I looked up and there was a skunk coming out of the trees. It was coming straight for me. This county has the highest rate of rabid animals in NC. I think skunks are at the top. Anyway I grabbed the camera and this is all I got with it being dark out. Thank God I have a street light in the front yard for security.

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S0 I have been using the iphone for a few days. I get no voice or data service where I live. Yes I live in the county. There is a major state highway a half a mile from my front yard also I can see a mobile tower from the yard. My Sprint Blackberry Curve works great here and everywhere that I have been with it. I knew that the ATT service was going to be sketchy. Even driving around in Greensboro calls where dropping. According to the ATT coverage viewer map, I am in a good / best area and a 3G area as well. Zip code is 27214 check it yourself. The service sucks but the hardware is great. I took the iPhone for a ride on my wireless network and it is great. I suppose that I could just use it has handtop.

itomato

Yes ...Two post in one day and in two different worlds it seems.
I did get an iphone today but I also go this wonderful set of tomatoes and squash.
Now I have two problems. How to can or freeze my tomatooes? Also is the iphone really that impoortant? Can you guess which one makes me happy the most?

iphone u answer

Yes it is true I have a iPhone. Work was generous enough to supply us with the phones for testing purposes. I just got the Blackberry Curve a few weeks ago after using Treo's from the beginning of time. It should be fun learning a new gadget.

Michael Jordan's 10 Secrets To Reaching the Top

Michael Jordan competed against people that were taller, stronger, faster, and younger than him. Despite the challenges he still came out on top. Let's take a look at the grains of wisdom that put him at the top of his game as well as his businesses.Being a huge UNC fan and watching Michael play in his college years, it was always great to see him become such a strong and dominating personality.
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# 1 and # 9 really came to my attention. Responsibility is a skill set that we are taught early in life....go potty on our own, tying our own shoes and improve grades in school. It is a hard concept to grasp at times. The light is always bright when I fail to be responsible. Later in life I struggled with trying to live up to others expectations and of course I failed. Setting my own expectations and learning from them, failing of course and then being successful at fulfillment as allowed me to become a much better person, to myself and others

sunflower

Well here they are.... sunflowers that have bloomed!
I guess all of the deer, rabbits and chiggers encounters have paid off. I ran through the garden today to escape the chiggers. They won last week and devoured my hand but I am getting better.

I will post a slide show of my recent trip to GA plus more garden pictures!

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It has been raining here for the past few days. I will try to get some sunny pictures of the sunflowers.

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changing of the guards

I will be attempting to make some changes to the blog through Google. Hopefully all will be well

hippies

The garden is doing great. The only problems that we been experiencing is weeds and chiggers. The weeds were out of control which created a haven for the chiggers. I ran a tiller through the rows last week and GIW pulled a lot of weeds by hand the week before. I have a bad case of chigger bites on my ankles and some on my hands from picking squash.

I had three of my sunflowers bloom. They are at least eight feet high and are beautiful.

I read this article today about organic foods. I have yet to add anything to the garden so it is organic just not certified.

enjoy!
Organic

firecracker

Went to a fireworks display last night and great time. I went with GIW and hung out in a church parking lot. We were the 2nd car there and the parking lot eventually filled up. Hampton was the town. Tonight we are trying to track down a place to watch the UFC.

Hope all are well and no lost a finger with a M-80!
GIW got wild with a sparkler lastnight!

later....

roborant

Events have been happening, that is the excuse I am using for being so slow on posting. I apologize.

My soul has been strengthening and I am experiencing many new perspectives about life.

The garden is doing well after the makeover that it had this past weekend. My Georgian Immigrant Worker (GIW) really did a great job. GIW was able to pull many weeds and also found my watermelon plants also. The squash plants are really producing. I am getting about 20 squash a week now. I harvested 7 last night after pulling many out over the weekend. I am having a problem with my tomatoes. They seem to be dying before maturity. The tomatoes are turning black at the bottom of the fruit. We did restring the tomato plants and stood them up. The storms that we have been having have been violent and cruel to the garden. Some plants had been on their sides. Hopefully getting them to stand up will help.





Many people think Luxo Jr. is the first Pixar animated film, but it's technically the Adventures of Andre and Wally B, produced while the soon-to-be Pixar crew was still at Lucas studios. Watch this and ask yourself--can you believe this was made in 1984!?!



The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. is an animated short made in 1984 by the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project, which would later be spun out as a startup company called Pixar. Although it is technically not a Pixar short, the animation was by John Lasseter, who was working on his first computer animated project and would move on to be a pivotal player at Pixar. The credits for the piece are concept/direction Alvy Ray Smith, animation John Lasseter, technical lead Bill Reeves, technical contributions by Tom Duff, Eben Ostby, Rob Cook, Loren Carpenter, Ed Catmull, David Salesin, Tom Porter, and Sam Leffler, filming by David DiFrancesco, Tom Noggle, and Don Conway, and computer logistics by Craig Good.

The animation on the feature was truly groundbreaking at the time, featuring the first use of motion blur in |CG animation. Lasseter pushed the envelope by asking for manipulatable shapes capable of the squash and stretch style, as earlier CG models had generally been restricted to rigid geometric shapes.

It was rendered on one Cray X-MP/48 (where 48 stands for 4 processors and 8 million words of internal memory, with word size of 64 bits (i.e. 8 bytes) it means its RAM size was 64 MB) and ten VAX 11/750s from Project Athena.

Credit: Wikipedia