Tame Bear on May 19th, 2010

Those who follow @TameBear on Twitter may have already seen this, or perhaps it was inadvertently buried in a flood of other messages flowing by in your river of info. Here they are all together in one place — 8 tweets describing “Multiverse Wave Theory” (aka: MW-Theory): Picture yourself as a blob of photons moving […]

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Tame Bear on May 12th, 2010

  “Oceans of Light”  by Peter Oakley   Today I am pleased to announce the publication of “Oceans of Light: A Users Guide to the Multiverse” by Peter Oakley. This first “ebook” on Multiverse Wave Theory is a short introduction in three parts… INTO THE LIGHT – Everything we perceive of the material world, including ourselves, […]

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Tame Bear on May 12th, 2010

Update – June 29, 2010: A word about Traffic-Splash: The more I use this one, the more I like it. It’s quick, so I rack up credits fast; and there’s a bonus every 15 pages! At least half a dozen days now since I signed up they’ve been running “Double Double” bonus incentives — from […]

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Tame Bear on May 10th, 2010

Oil Rig Burning It is the worst man-made ecological disaster since the Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill of 1989. When British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform ignited, burned, and sank, it left in its fiery wake an uncontrollable gusher of crude oil beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Even now — three weeks […]

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Tame Bear on May 5th, 2010

  Camille 1994-2010   Camille was our first and oldest cat, and she has been a part of our family for 14 years. When Treesh and I first received her, she was probably already about two years old. She had been abandoned, left with a litter of kittens at the back door of Faire Isle […]

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Tame Bear on April 28th, 2010

This week Apple passed 10 billion songs sold on its iTunes Store. The sale of individual songs made it possible for you and me to buy the one song we really want from an album without having to buy the entire album. Sales of individual songs precipitated the demise of the audio CD as a […]

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Tame Bear on April 25th, 2010

Turning the page in an ebook reader is one way to test the realism and attention to detail the makers exacted to simulate real-world book reading. Kindle does a nice job of simulating page turns. You can just tap, which does a quick flip to the next page. You can do a slow swipe right-to-left, […]

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Tame Bear on April 25th, 2010

In this week’s episode of “Flash Forward” (ABC), we learn about Dyson Frost’s “Garden of Forking Paths,” an enormous map sketched in chalk detailing multiple forks in his travels through time. Frost is in search of alternate futures, mostly a future where he lives past a particular date, but also a future where the whole […]

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Tame Bear on April 21st, 2010

For several years now I’ve been describing to people why I meditate, though this is the first time I’ve written about it here. Meditation is a rewarding practice; the more I do it, the more I appreciate it and want to continue in the practice. I can list a few of the obvious reasons: It’s […]

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Tame Bear on April 21st, 2010

Treesh and I went shopping for a freezer last summer. You know, one of those chest freezers you keep in the basement to store everything that won’t fit in the refrigerator freezer in the kitchen. We did a lot of canning and freezing from the garden last year and needed a place to put it […]

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