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Yeah I know, I’ve been missing from the BLOG. Sorrrrryyyy!! It has been a rough 6 weeks for the TaxAide program here in Las Cruces. I won’t bore you with details. The short story is we had to find a new location in January, and I had just 2 weeks to get everything set up [...]

Wow… It’s been a while since I posted. Part of the reason is I just didn’t have anything worthwhile to say. Part of the reason is that I am overwhelmed by the sheer … oh what’s the word?… stupidity…  of our country. Watching the news is an exercise in agony. How much coverage did ‘Balloon [...]

You may only have one more night of Moon watching. Tomorrow morning (7:31 AM EDT), NASA plans to bomb the Moon with the upper stage of an Atlas-Centaur rocket. Presumably this is a scientific experiment to examine the amount of water is on the Moon. I think it could be the end of our beloved [...]

Saturday, September 19, we got up early and drove over to White Sands National Monument for the White Sands Balloon Festival. Everyone knows about the Albuquerque International Balloon Festival. That  festival will take place starting October 13 in Albuquerque. It is the granddaddy of balloon festivals, and the largest in the world. But, any town in [...]

This fellow showed up at our front door Tuesday night. I should know better, but the dog wanted out before going to bed. So, I just opened the door and let her out. Then I turned on the light and, surprise, guess who was close to the door? I didn’t kill him, but used my [...]

Since I was on the subject of Vampire movies in the last post, I couldn’t move on without mentioning one of the most original entries in the genre. Last year’s Swedish import, “Let the Right One In” is a new very original take on the vampire legend. It is all the more moody and atmospheric [...]

There is a new movie that released this weekend, “Food, Inc”. The film details the unhealthy and potentially disastrous rise of manufactured food. Our grocery stores are filled with unhealthy choices. I recommend this movie.

Watch this short video… I worry about our access to fresh un-modified food in this country. Congress and big business don’t want to make it easier. Watch:

This new film will premiere on YouTube tomorrow. Here is a link to the channel. And here is a preview:

I use the Firefox addon known as Adblock Plus. According to the Mozilla/Firefox addon page, Adblock Plus is the most popular addon for FF. At least it was today. It is never out of the top 5 most popular. I have been using it for a couple of years now and I think it [...]

Here is an interesting article I found on Ars Technica. According to this article by Matt Ford
“A new study utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) looks at the brains of early risers and night owls and detects a physical basis for their differences“.
Aha!! I knew that there was a dfference between earlybirds and us normal [...]

LarryC, the green blog, saves energy once again by presenting a re-cycled PSA (Pubic Service Announcement) from 1976. Why throw a good PSA away, when you can reuse it??