The Way We Were

Dinner at Dapur on Saturday. We started with the Shrimp Martini, Tiger shrimp wrapped in rice paper with a pineapple-peach chutney. Very good! Our main course, was the usual Crispy Duck which was excellent as always.

It is becoming a chore to keep this thing going. When I first started on Open Diary, there were a lot of people that I read and posts on which I left comments, and who, for the most part, read and commented on my diary. But most of them are now gone. A couple died, but most have just disappeared into the internet ether-world. In the past six months, I haven't gotten as many comments as I used to get on a daily basis. For a couple weeks in a row I got absolutely no comments and only one of two people even bothered to post anything. I suppose I'll keep it going (though sporadically) for my own amusement and a way to check back and see how we were getting through the days.

Man Dead For 40 Minutes Brought Back To Life With New CPR Technique

Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo

  

The Week In Numbers

  

Teen’s invention could charge cellphone in 20 seconds

  

Our Creator Is A Cosmic Computer Programmer

Dumb Law of the Week: In Lebanon, Virginia, it is illegal to kick your wife out of bed.

À la prochaine, mes amis.

Conspiracy

The other day after viewing a video on You Tube, I was given the option of about a dozen or so other videos. One of those happened to be the video of Bush LYING about seeing the first plane hit the WTC tower on 9/11. This, of course, lead me to watch other videos about 9/11 and seemingly logical comments by experts in various fields of architecture and building stress. It still disturbs me to this day that the American people have bought into the government's obvious campaign to make it seem as though we had actually been attacked by a group of Saudis on a suicide mission. You may recall, that most of the so-called suicide people were later seen alive and well in Morocco!  Supposedly, they were American Airline planes that had been hi-jacked, but if you look at the videos, you'll see they were NOT American Airline jets and there were actually no markings on them at all.  Then, if you check out the so-called plane flying into the Pentagon, you see there WAS NO PLANE.  The most obvious reason for the attack was the $300 Billion in gold bars in storage under the buildings of which little was recovered!  View the accusatory videos for yourself and think about it objectively. I'm curious to know what you decide.

See with your own eyes

Only Aired Once About PENTAGON !!!

9/11 Incontrovertible Proof the Government is Lying

MIT Engineer Disputes 911 Theory of the WTC Collapse

   

Missing 9/11 Planes

911 Clues EVERYONE MISSED

   

À la prochaine, mes amis.

Moon Rip

Got a strange urge to be ripped off? Try this: For Sale: Acre Lots on Moon With Earth View, $19.99. Want to own a little piece of heaven? It's yours, starting at $19.99 an acre--on the moon. If you prefer, you can buy property on Venus or Mercury. Now considering they don't own the moon, or any part of it, that's about as blatant a ripoff as one can get!  If you want to be ripped even further, you can pay to name a star.  Of course, the star won't be given the name you choose, but hey, what do you want for a couple hundred dollars?

Saturday, Robb invited a long-time friend for lunch. We went to the Alibi (it used to be called Georgie's Alibi, but the owner sold it and allowed the new owner to use Alibi, but not Georgie's, although everyone still calls it Georgie's) where we attempted to sit on the patio. The music was so loud we had to shout at each other to be heard, so we moved inside. It was somewhat better, but the longer we were there, the louder it got. The waiter found it immensely funny that we are all named Robert (Robb's friend is named Roberta). Georgie's has very good snack foods, although we have gone there for dinner a few times. I had the Coconut Shrimp, Robb had the Veggie Burger, and Roberta had something that for the life of me I cannot remember.

Warming Causes Plants To Release Gases That May Mitigate Global Warming

  

‘Time Crystals’ Could Upend Physicists’ Theory of Time

Donald Trump Caterpillar

  

Particle Accelerator Will Examine The Color Of Dinosaur Skin

  

Million-Neuron Artificial Brain Works In Real Time

  

Dumb Law of the Week: In Lebanon, Virginia, it is illegal to kick your wife out of bed.

À la prochaine, mes amis.

Apartment Shingles

We managed to find a nice apartment in Boston for about a third of what we would have paid for the hotel room. It's still about the same as we would pay for a month in Paris. I never realized how expensive it is to travel in the US.

About a year and a half ago, I announced that I had been attacked by a bout of Shingles. It is still going strong. It's not painful (most of the time), but it itches like crazy, especially at night when I'm trying to get to sleep. I heard from one guy who told me his had lasted for two years. I think I may beat his record, because one thing that exacerbates Shingles, is anything that compromises the immune system. Steroids is one thing that does that and I am currently using two medicines containing steroids. I say currently, but it will most likely be for many years to come.

Consciousness After Death: Strange Tales From the Frontiers of Resuscitation Medicine

Teen Genius Develops Cancer Test

  

Hyundai Unveils Flying Electric Car for Congested Cities

SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic on first powered flight

  

Toddler Receives Synthetic Trachea

Dumb Law of the Week: In Lebanon, Virginia, it is illegal to kick your wife out of bed.

À la prochaine, mes amis.

Give Peace A Chance

So now we've had the Boston Bombing, Newtown, Columbine, Aurora (and god only knows how many others) and in spite of all those, we still have no idea what it's like to live in Iraq or Afghanistan day to day. Just going out to buy groceries can mean you'll end up dead or maimed! How can anyone of good conscience justify these ridiculous, unnecessary "wars"? The US government needs to wake up and realize that using the Army, Air Force, Marines or Navy is NOT the way to fight the so-called terrorists. They NEED to realize that by using the military in this way, they are only encouraging others to join the "terrorists"!

Cell phone spotted in silent film from 1928

Super-powered battery breakthrough claimed by US team

Galaxy at the Edge of the Universe Really Likes Making Stars

Repairing and Replacing Body Parts: What's Next

Combining Antibiotics May Backfire

Dumb Law of the Week: In Dyersburg, Tennessee, it is illegal for a woman to call a man for a date.

À la prochaine, mes amis.

Boston Dinner

Blocked and her husband are going to be in Boston in July for a wedding, so we decided to go up for a week, 21 July to 28 July. I booked a flight on Spirit, an airline on which we've never before flown, so we don't know what to expect, but it's only a three-hour flight so it shouldn't be too bad. Robb made a reservation at the Courtyard by Marriott Boston Copley Square. It seems to be a nice place, but damn it is expensive. For what he is paying for a week in a room, we could have gotten a beautiful one bedroom apartment in Paris for a couple of months!

Dinner at Candela this week. We both had what was listed on the menu as Fish Fillet, which turned out to be Red Snapper on a bed of Cava Risotto. It was super good. For dessert, Robb had the Chocolate Tart and I had Flan. As usual, we drank cava.

Saturn's Rings Are Raining Water

  

New Striped Bat Species Looks Like a Tiny Flying Bulldog

Scientists Make Brains Transparent to Get a Better Look Inside

  

The Safest (and Cheapest) Cholesterol Treatment

Sounds can Help Strengthen Memory during Sleep

  

Dumb Law of the Week: In South Dakota, It is illegal for women to think about abortion on a Saturday or Sunday.

À la prochaine, mes amis.

Bitcoin Wallet

So I am now the proud owner of a Bitcoin Wallet. Ah ha, I can hear you, "WTF is a Bitcoin Wallet?" Not so easy to explain, but....Bitcoins are a new, virtual currency that can be used to buy things or pay people for services instead of using dollars or euros, or what ever currency you normally would use for those transactions. The Bitcoin Wallet is a virtual bank account in which you keep your Bitcoins (if you can figure out where to get them) and it is the place from which you make and/or receive payments for goods or services. I'm not totally familiar with the whole thing yet because it's rather complicated and I have yet to find any place that accepts Bitcoins as payment, although I've read that there are a lot of them. Another thing I don't quite understand is how they can be valued like dollars or euros, but according to the latest information, a Bitcoin is worth about $172, and people are 'collecting' them. Some have even suggested that they may eventually do away with the actual physical currency that we now use. I have my doubts about that, but who knows? If you want more information, Google "Bitcoins" or check out the Bitcoin Wiki.

This Weird Crafty Fish Can Make Itself Invisible--And We Don't Know How

  

Here’s the Coolest Photo Yet of SpaceShipTwo in Flight

  

“Breathprints” Could Diagnose Disease

  

Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead

  

Scientists Decode Dreams With Brain Scans

Dumb Law of the Week: In Oklahoma, it is illegal for people to make "ugly faces" at dogs and they may be fined and/or jailed.

À la prochaine, mes amis.