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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??

It’s about time to update the old blog here. I have been extremely remiss for the past 5 and a half months. Well, I was working. As a Local Coordinator for the AARP Tax-Aide program, I was hired by a local Non-Profit to run their tax preparation effort. We call the program the Southwest Tax [...]

I Know, I have been absent for quite a while. Well, I have plenty of excuses. The main reason is that I am working now. The Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico has hired me to coordinate their tax preparation program for low-income residents. It is basically the same job I have been doing [...]

New Mexico is one of 17 states that allows in-person early voting. In fact, the polls opened here on October 7, and remain open until November 1. The only problem with voting early is that I still have to put up with those annoying political ads on TV for 2 more weeks. I think they [...]

I’ve finally uploaded photos from our trip. they are in my galleries in an album called “California Nev trip, June-July 2008. You can go to my gallery pages by clicking on the link on the left, clicking on any photo on the right, or by clicking on he image I have here:
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Well, we’re back in New Mexico. It was a great, fun, exhausting trip. It was great because we had a chance to see just about everybody I wanted to see on this trip. We spent good quality time with Sarah, and surprisingly Diane, whom we haven’t seen in almost 5 years. Also saw Homan, and [...]