Listen to the children sing ( Read more... )

Now is the solstice of the year ( Read more... )

I know I don't have to tell you people to vote ( Read more... )

On this date in 1867, the United States formally took possession of the Alaskan Territory, having purchased it from Emperor Alexander II of Russia for $7200000 in March of that year.

The power is out at the office again. So Lensman is down again. Luckily I have gotten the critical emails I needed to get today to get the bout tape ordered on time. It's back again. But I'm pretty sure the power there is not stable, so I wouldn't be surprised if it keeps yo-yoing all evening and through the night ( Read more... )

Utah Phillips has caught the westbound. The world has lost a huge piece of history.

So, did anyone feel the quake?

I slept through it, I think. At any rate I didn't notice it; it may have woken me up briefly.

Hey, Erik! We're changing carriers today. You're going to need to come out here and change the IP addresses of all our servers...

Lensman.org may be unavailable to you for up to a few hours while the DNS records update across the Internet

A little bit of historic local color, in black and white.

"April 1942. "Sixty-year-old George Lane, former house painter, is a valuable worker in the De Land, Florida, industrial pool...."

A recent study shows that there is negligible extra benefit from performing Rescue Breathing (Mouth-To-Mouth) while doing CPR, as opposed to CPR alone. Further, that 3 out of 4 bystanders would not do CPR because of the Mouth-to-Mouth component ( Read more... )