Musings of a Madman

We live in a world  and a state (Florida) where natural or man-made disasters can happen without any warning.

Our checklist covers 8 simple categories:

• Warmth & Shelter (depending on the time of year)
• Water & Hydration
• Food & Nutrition
• Sanitation & Hygiene
• First Aid & Medical
• Light & Communication
• Cooking & Fuel
• Tools & Supplies

Each category has several emergency items that you will need. Please feel free to share this list with your friends and family. We hope that this list will help keep your house and family prepared for whatever disaster may come:
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Aesop’s Fables—Professor Copper Giloth at the University of Massachusetts Amherst teaches Introduction to Computing in the Fine Arts. She assigns her students the task of illustrating the traditional Aesop’s fables alongside their own retellings of the fables in a modern setting. This website showcases their work and can be used in several ways. You and your child can read the fables, you can compare the fables with versions found elsewhere, or you can use the student work as incentive for your children to illustrate stories or poems.

Neuroscience for Kids—Learn about all aspects of neuroscience in a format that uses helpful graphics. Try the many experiments that make use of games and activities. View questions that have been submitted and then answered by basic and clinical neuroscientists from around the world. Search the numerous links provided, sign up for the free newsletter, and much more.

Insects—Brought to you by the Amateur Entomologists’ Society, this website helps the visitor identify bugs, learn about bugs, find out how to care for bugs as pets, and many other interesting things about insects and invertebrates. There is also information on how to become an entomologist.
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Yep! It finally happen! My trusty ol’ Macbook fail me for the first time in 4 years. The truth really is…I fail him.  His fan had been complainin’ and I had been disregardin’ for some time now.  So now he doesn’t even come on.

So now I will just have to risk taking off my “dunce cap” for a bit and have at it…it’s either that or get raped by some Bahraini Indian dude, with a PhD in Agronomics (is that a word?), who nods approvingly at every friggin’ word you utter or even think about uttering, whether he understands what you’re saying or not.  Ahmm…think I’ll take my chances with me on this one; the worse that could happen is…I just break the damn thing…reason enuff to get a new one right?

It’s a good thing the “female-unit” doesn’t hang around my website and read my postings. Will report back soon…hopefully on his NEW computer…ssshh!

It remains to be seen whether or not the worst has passed, or if we are merely enjoying the relative calm during the eye of the latest financial storm. I personally believe we are in for more tough times in the near term.

A variety of stimulus programs have conspired to create an “artificial demand” that has produced seemingly positive results. However, I believe it only served to delay the inevitable. In fact, I’ll go a step further. I believe it made the inevitable even worse. Would the economy have been worse without the stimulus? Probably. Would we have survived and saved a couple trillion dollars in new debt? Probably. But who knows. I’m not an economist, and I certainly don’t play one on TV.  Read more >>