Watch as two talking cats play the Pattycakes game… Yeah, The Bear likes cats. Did you know The Bear likes cats?
Is Chevrolet ashamed of their new plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle? Their marketing slogan is “More car than electric.” It seems an odd way to sell a car to people interested in buying an electric vehicle. The Chevy Volt is a powerful, stylish sports car. Clearly they opted for performance over energy efficiency. “More muscle than milage.” […]
Apple hints at something new from iTunes today, and rumors are The Beatles catalog will finally be going digital. The Bear predicts Apple will also use the fanfare surrounding this announcement to launch a new streaming music service. Hopefully we will be able to purchase Beatles music online and own it in our music library, […]
That’s the teaser for a live televised press conference at NASA scheduled for just a few hours from now — at 12:30pm EST. Something has been discovered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Science researchers who will be on hand to answer questions include: Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington Kimberly Weaver, astrophysicist, […]
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In a remarkably well-articulated story by Huffington Post blogger Robert Lanza, we are given a tour of recent research and contemporary thought into the nature of time. From the paradox of motion passing through many moments of time (like individual frames in a movie); Heisenberg’s inevitable uncertainties as to location and direction of moving objects; to the […]
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What are Traffic Exchanges good for? If you’ve been using TEs for a while maybe you’ve already figured some of this out, so we can compare notes. And if you’re new to TEs, I hope these two essential tips are helpful. TEs are great at pointing traffic firehose-like at a web page and opening the […]
Of course you know a “retweet” is simply repeating what someone else said. It’s a Twitter thing. A retweet begins with “RT” followed by the twitter name of the person you’re retweeting, followed by whatever that person said. So for example if you want to repeat something I’ve said, your retweet will start with “RT @tamebear …” […]
The centerpiece of our garden this year has been the cardoon. It took off growing before anything else and was head-high by end of April. Then it put out fluffy magenta thistle-like flowers. After that it died back and was dormant for most of the summer, as the tomatoes, potatoes, kale, lettuce, sunflowers, peppers and […]
Eventually, everything that can happen, does happen. The Bear learned this evening that it’s important to be sure the fermentation process is completely stopped before bottling a new batch of wine. Treesh and I make our own wine. This summer we made a wonderful batch of cherry wine, from sour cherries we picked from the […]
