Month: November 2005

It is a pickup truck this afternoon in the parking lot of the Schaumburg CompUSA.

The site‘s nearly finished – yay! Still need to sort out the news and animation sections but hope to have them uploaded soon…

I liked the whole site, but Missy and Kitty was way fun.

Even though Panama is smaller than South Carolina, it is as geographically confusing as a country can be. The country is shaped like a horizontal “S,” stretching from the northwest to the southeast. Ships transiting the Panama Canal from the Pacific Ocean actually travel northwest to reach the Atlantic Ocean. Being so close to the equator and due to the curved shape of the country, the sun rises in the east over the Pacific Ocean in Panama City.

How it works.

Check the Weather.

Photos and Live Cameras.

Check out the Panama Canal Miraflores locks time-lapse, 1 week compressed into 11 minutes.

Have you been through the Panama Canal lately? Here are some daily MPG files created from the Soo Cameras. You can probably see yourself passing by. Cameras 2 & 4 seem to be the best.

April showers bring May flowers.
What do May flowers bring?

Pilgrims!

The Pilgrims strongly believed that the Church of England, and the Catholic Church, had strayed beyond Christ’s teachings, and established religious rituals, and church hierarchies, that went against the teachings of the Bible. This belief put them at odds with church officials, who in the early years of King James I, tried to have them arrested and thrown in jail for refusing to attend church services and participate in Anglican church rituals. For this reason, many of the Pilgrims fled…

It wasn’t all fun and games.

The tradition of the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving is steeped in myth and legend. Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate Thanksgiving the next year, or any year thereafter.

Modern traditions.

There are millions of Mayflower decendants living today, but very few descendants actually know it.

There are 7 randomly selected puzzles to solve for each game you play.

There’s always one that I get stuck on.

Whenever a blogger updates his or her post, a portrait of that blogger will be shown top. Older posts, and their accompanying faces, move down the page over time. 40 faces will be shown at any time, but the number of bloggers participating is not limited.

The Georgia Aquarium opens on November 23rd and will stake its claim as the World’s Largest Aquarium.

The Georgia Aquarium sits on 9 1/2 acres of land adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta.

The exterior of the building was designed to look like a giant ship breaking through a wave. As guests enter the huge atrium inside the building, they will be led into the facility by “a wall of fish” guiding them inside. They then have the choice of entering five galleries. Each gallery is easily identified by an icon and signage at the entrance: Georgia Explorer has a light house; River Scout displays a cascading waterfall; Cold Water Quest has an ice covered cliff; Ocean Voyager offers a peek window into the huge habitat; and Tropical Diver has two video screens displaying the perspective of a fish on a reef.

Some Atlanta-area residents are complaining about the ticket prices and the aquarium’s refusal, at least initially, to offer a family pass. For a family of five, the cost of individual annual passes will be nearly $250, while one-day general admission would run $137.50.

Planners say visitors will consider the price a bargain when they see what’s in store for them.

If you’re going through Macon, your travel information will be given to those that need it.

~ Twisters swept across two counties Saturday late afternoon, ripping up farms and damaging dozens of homes in the towns of Stratford and Woodward.
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“Half the town’s gone,” Bob Smith said of the destruction in Stratford, a town of about 750 residents. ~ The tornado touched down about 5 p.m.

In Woodward, 30 miles to the south, 20 to 40 homes were severely damaged when a tornado hit about half an hour later ~.

The storm’s winds also broke windows on the outskirts of Ames, where tornado sirens had already sent college football fans gathered for the Iowa State-Colorado game running for shelter.

Compared with other States, Iowa ranks number 6 for frequency of Tornadoes, 22 for number of deaths, 18 for injuries and 10 for cost of damages. Based on data from 1950 – 1995.

The total cost of tornadoes between 1950 and 1995 was $715,347,712.00. The cost per person for tornadoes, in the state per year, is $ 5.63.

News gets around.

Pics and Video.

Interactive Tornado.

Nobody saw Steve Green.

We have been increasingly using Flash animations for illustrating Physics content. This page provides access to those animations which may be of general interest.

If that’s not enough fun, you can check out their Nuclear Constants Query Page.
Read more.

FERN [Iowa]. A village in Sec 32, Beaver Twp. Formerly Andersonville. Post office from March 20, 1892 to December 31, 1907. First postmaster, Emil L Pieper.

Fern had a creamery. People used to go to college to be creamery operators.

It’s easy to believe they were anxious to change the name of the town. Andersonville wasn’t a very well liked name back then.

If New York is on one end of a continuum, then Fern is about as far on the other end as you can get. I grew up near Fern. There doesn’t seem to be even a trace of it any more.

A small town near Fern (in Tama county) that still exists was called Berlin until World War II. Now it’s called Lincoln.