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Watch me not die

matte — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:26:58 +0000

Here’s the video of Sunday’s skydive. Mom, might not be for you.

Bet you can’t guess where we are right now

matte — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:32:52 +0000

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Avila Beach

matte — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:06:36 +0000

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Science, Astronomy and Death… in a funny way.

matte — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:20:35 +0000

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a funny man. A brilliant scientist who knows a lot about astronomy. He’s really ON starting around 15 minutes in but this is just a great interview to watch.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Death by Black Hole

Lights Out

matte — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:11:33 +0000

more candles!!!

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Lights Out

matte — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:02:10 +0000

Playing scrabble during our Lights Out time period.

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5.6!!

matte — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:15:52 +0000

We just had the biggest earthquake I’ve ever felt. Cathy and I were watching Dexter and suddenly the ground shook. For longer than it should normally shake when we’re together. HA!!!

5.6

I love California. Until we have The Big One. Then I’ll prolly poop my pants.

With apologies to Douglas Adams…

matte — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:07:47 +0000

I read this brief article about what appears to be a BIG problem of some missing bees in America. Tens of BILLIONS. Or, it should be said… Billion and Billions (sorry to Carl Sagan too). heh.

But the only thing that was going through my head while reading it?

“So Long and Thanks for All the …” honey.

Black cloud

matte — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:34:20 +0000

Save the world… Save the cheerleader

matte — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:18:58 +0000

Cathy and I watched “An Inconvenient Truth” last weekend and it was really inspiring. Sure, it’s a glorified PowerPoint presentation but, with all apologies to Marshall McLuhan, in this instance the medium is not the message. So, I’ve tried to step up my looking for ways to help reduce my impact on our environment. My small steps may not make a HUGE difference but they’ll help and I can also help spread the word on my tiny little blog here. One thing that helps not just the environment but your pocketbook as well?

Stop idling the car!!

Studies have shown that idling the car for longer than 10 seconds is very wasteful. 10 SECONDS PEOPLE! That’s many stoplights out where I live, if I hit it right… wrong… umm, just as it changes to red. So, I’ve started to turn my car off when I think I can get away with it. The following link has more information and there’s a quaint, though low-budget (I love the squirrel), video that makes a good point as well.

(inspiration for this post) Homemade Hybrids – with the 10-Second Rule

Using this 10 second rule can even save you gas. The person quoted in the story I linked to above said he got an extra 30 miles in one month. That’s an extra gallon in my car. $3.45 saved. Per tank. I go through a coupla tanks a month. That’s big bucks.

What else am I doing?

I’m starting to take lightrail more often into work
I don’t run the water in my shower waiting for it to get hot as long as I used to. I used to shave while waiting but it gets hot enough, fast enough, that I start the shower after shaving.
We’ve replaced standard lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs in many places, though I think I know some places where we haven’t.

Little things, but things that help. You can too. So, if you find yourself idling your car, anywhere you’re going to be longer than 10 seconds?… A long stoplight… Waiting for the kids to come out of school… Tailgating… etc… Turn it off.

PS – What’s the deal with the title? If we save our world? We’ll be saving the lives of countless cheerleaders too. I, for one, am all for that!