Postal Rate Increase
This is a Public Service announcement: Postage rates in the USA go up on May 11, 2009 Click here to go to the USPS...
Author: Simon
Jerry Found
I feel like Columbo. "One more Philippine post...." I'd lost Jerry, our dive-master's, email address and had to...
Does History Repeat?
I got this cartoon from Joe S. It appeared in the Chicago Tribune on 4/21/1934. It is a dire warning about the...
Plants that Swim
A couple of weeks ago I posted a bunch of photos of Crinoids. I know you didn't believe that they were in fact...
April 20, 2009 Maxim
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." William Butler Yeats From Smile Southern...
Gift Bags
My friend Paula B. once claimed that bagged lettuce was the most important invention of the 20th century. I thought...
Fishman Stone Installed
The Men of Stone shown here are celebrating the installation of the Fishman Stone: Dick, Simon and Howard We are...
The Fishman Stone
Today the Men of Stone are installing the Fishman Stone. This is our first qualified installation in the second...
Call OSHA
In Sierra Madre the other day they were changing the light bulbs on the street lamps in one of the parking lots. This...
Did they really say this?
The new building in the Kaiser Sunset Hospital has opened and I had to go there to visit my father-in-law. (He'll be...
