If pretend painted pets aren’t for you — here’s a site for real pet lovers
Have a pet? Ever joined an online pet/people community? I just signed up with a fun pet/pet lovers community site called "Anamigo.com." It looks like a fun place for those of us who are cat lovers. Oh, sure, they'll even make you feel welcome if your a *sniff* DOG lover, horse lover, whatever.
Seriously, Anamigo.com is a great place for pet lovers of all -- pardon the pun -- breeds. The site is even getting attention from some celebs out there, including special exposure at their official launch party at this year's annual Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
But celebrity members aside, I just went to Anamigo.com this morning and joined, posting a picture of our cat, Tigra, on the site while I was getting signed up. The registration is free and includes the ability to upload pictures of your pet(s) to share with family, friends, and all those at Anamigo.com waiting to become your friends.
Go look around the Anamigo.com site for pets and pet lovers. Sign up and turn your pets into online stars in their own right. It's free, it's easy, it's a truly useful website for all of us pet lovers. Tigra and I will see you there!
[tags]pets and pet lovers, Anamigo.com, pet photos online, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
For all you pet lovers out there: Would you go for one of these ‘Perfect Pets’?
I posted a discussion of this "Perfect Pets" story on one of my other blogs geared specifically to news about pets and to pet lovers. (Feel free to take a look around that blog. It's new and I could use the traffic!)
Are you a pet lover? Do you suffer pet allergies, or have problems with the "inconvenience" of pets like cats who need litter boxes, dogs who need pooper scoopers and daily walks, fish who need aquariums cleaned?
Then this woman's "Perfect Pets" may be just what you're looking for: Very realistically done pet paintings, custom placed around your house and property to look very real. I'll admit the idea has a clever charm to it. Some of the painted pets shown in that story are nice.
But, really, are they PETS? Do we need a reality check here? Am I the only one who thinks pets need to be LIVING??
Ah, well, what do I know? I'm just a guy who reads the papers.
[tags]Perfect Pets, pet paintings, living pets, pet lovers, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
Hilliary’s planned trip to Florida — ah, ah, ah, isn’t that sort of cheating the system?
I've never been to Las Vegas. But if I understand how the systems there work, big spenders can find Vegas hotels and casinos that will "comp" them with free lodging -- perhaps meals, too? -- with the understanding they'll lay down their gambling money, etc., at that hotel/casino. I THINK that's how it works, but I don't know.
It would be sort of gaming the system if you took such a nice comp, then quietly walked across the street and laid your money down on someone else's table, right?
Isn't Hillary Clinton trying to pull a similar game on the Democratic Party with her plans to be in Florida Tuesday evening to thank all of her supporters there? You'll probably remember that Michigan and Florida have formally lost their delegates to the Democratic National Convention for bucking the system and scheduling their party primaries early. Because of that, all the Democratic candidates have pledge NOT to campaign in those states.
So isn't Hillary's Tuesday evening visit violating the spirit of that pledge, if not the letter?
Frankly, I think Hillary and Bill Clinton together are starting to show everything just short of public panic at her failure to win big in the primaries, especially in light of her recent loss to Obama in S.C., and the Kennedy endorsements of Obama.
Come on, Hillary, quit gaming the system. Come on, Bill, we all know you'd love to see Hillary in the White House -- and what husband would not support his wife? -- but you are looking a lot like some of your lust for the Oval Office is clouding your judgment, too.
Ah, well, what do I know? I'm just a guy who reads the papers. Uh, and I suppose that possibility of drafting Al Gore for the Democratic presidential nomination is pretty remote now, eh?
[tags]Democratic Party primaries, Florida, Hillary Clinton, gaming the system, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
As a guy I know nothing about this, but using contraceptives to treat acne troubles me
I was doing some research on the Internet today regarding acne and acne treatments, and I ran onto a couple of articles suggesting that some forms of contraceptive pills are idea for treating acne and are regularly prescribed for acne treatment in some countries in Europe and Asia.
I'm a guy. I really have no first-hand experience and only limited knowledge about contraceptive pills. I had the usual teenage experience with "zits" that most guys have, but they cleared up and are not a problem.
It seems to me, though, that contraceptive pills are designed first and foremost to regulate estrogen and progesterone in a woman's body in such ways that they prevent pregnancy. And I do know further that those two hormones are very powerful, very basic "building blocks" of the female body and the female reproductive process. Considering that, isn't it just a little bit odd that physicians would prescribe the pills to combat acne? I do know, from some of the stuff I read online, that not ALL acne is hormone related -- and it would hope that physicians certainly would recognize the difference and not just give the contraceptive pills out as a sort of "stab in the dark" at the acne problem.
Yet in the real world we discover multiple cases where something may start out under careful control by legitimate doctors, only to be preempted or worked around by unscrupulous people looking to make a buck. The end result usually is someone getting hurt or even killed through carelessness or ignorance.
Maybe I'm making far to much out of nothing. I certainly hope so. But at least one of the sources I read, out of India, expressed alarm at the trend. I would be alarmed, too, if I had a daughter or wife involved in such acne treatments. Or certainly I would be cautious.
Ah, well, what do I know. I'm just a guy who reads the papers.
[tags]contraceptive pills, acne treatment, estrogen, progesterone, health news, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
Not a big surprise — Obama wins in South Carolina primary
It's hard to be that surprised about Barack Obama winning the Democratic primary in South Carolina. He was predicted as a big winner because of the large percentage of African-American voters in that state's Democratic Party.
I'm listening to a CNN reporter right now, however, making a big point of the racially diverse and "gender" diverse coalition Obama put together in the win. I certainly hope that's true. I really, really want to believe that Democratic voters as well as all voters in America will NOT let race or gender determine our next president. I truly hope the next president we elect will be elected because he or she is the best person for the job.
But, of course, having lived through a ton of presidential elections in my lifetime, I really don't believe America's voters and American citizens in general are not biased about issues like race and gender. I know American voters and nonvoters are human, hence subject to human biases and prejudices.
In light of that -- perhaps John Edwards was right in the comments I just heard him make. He maintains that he not only is battling to speak for the common people of America (yeah, well, he's a very rich successful lawyer, anyway ...) but that he also is the most electable candidate in the general election. I don't know how sincerely he represents the American people or any sector of 'em -- but I really think he may be more electable against whoever the Republicans run than Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Ah, well, what do I know? I'm just a guy who reads the papers
[tags]South Carolina Democratic primary, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, presidential race, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
Winter has broken here, time to walk away from the computer, or at least to dream about travel
What are you doing on a beautiful day like this sitting there in front of your monitor reading this blog? Don't you know it's time to head off into the woods, go down to the lake, make plans for the beach, or perhaps start your Hawaii cruise vacation?
Okay, so maybe you're like the rest of us and have obligations. You can't just pick up, pack up, and head out whenever the weather looks good for it. But you can go to "TravelStore" and make your plans for the vacation trip of a lifetime, or the year, or whatever. In addition to cruises in Hawaii, the site has a wealth of other cruises as well as every sort of land-based vacation and vacation planning resource you might want. They even offer sports event travel packages.
Their experts can help you plan everything from flights to hotel reservations to car rentals. They've been in business with the same management since 1975. I love their site slogan: "We've been where you want to go."
Take a look around their site and find just what you need for your travel dreams. Then step away from the computer and get started traveling.
[tags]TravelStore, Hawaii cruise, cruise vacations, vacation planning, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
Would Huckabee and McCain agree to settle nomination with hand-to-hand combat?
Nah, just kidding. I'm sure you know we never resolve political contests in America with hand-to-hand combat. Well, not PHYSICAL hand-to-hand, though campaign rhetoric might sometimes seem more vicious than physical blows.
I'm referring in this headline to the ongoing celebrity endorsement battles all candidates get into. On the Democratic side, we've got Streisand and Winfrey. And now, on the GOP side, we've got Norris and Stallone.
STALLONE??
We've all seen the fun commercials with movie action tough guy Chuck Norris endorsing Huckabee, but who saw this one coming: Apparently, Sylvester Stallone (as in Rocky, as in Rambo) has come out in an interview endorsing John McCain.
Well, this changes everything then, doesn't it? Stallone's box office take is so far ahead of anything Chuck Norris has done it's probably laughable. I mean, we're not talking about an endorsement from someone quite as wealthy as Streisand and Winfrey, I would guess. But nonetheless, it's good to have Rocky in your corner, Rambo watching your back, etc.
How delightful, really, that the American voter goes to the polls well studied and prepared to pick leadership based on qualifications for leadership -- no, wait. I'm thinking of probably some obscure European or Asian nation.
In America, we pick our presidents based on the important stuff -- STAR POWER, BABY!
[tags]celebrity presidential endorsements, Sylvester Stallone, John McCain, Mike Huckabee[/tags]
Enough politics and mad science — clear your mind and let’s journey to a beautiful Canadian resort
When I was a younger man, I made a couple of trips to Vancouver, British Columbia, and I regret that I've never had the opportunity to visit more of Canada. But perhaps I will soon -- and what better place to start than this beautiful year-round resort getaway: "Blueberry Lake Resort," in the Mont Tremblant Canada region of Quebec.
If you're suffering the mid-winter blahs/blues like I am, if you're already tired of presidential politics, and if you're ready willing and able to spend your share of that economic stimulus package even before you get it -- let's go. I'll meet you there. (*Sigh*, unfortunately my wife says no, we can't get away right now.)
Seriously, look around the Blueberry Lake Resort website. What a gorgeous looking place. It's near several rivers and lakes, specializes terrific Canadian mountain and woodland scenery, and has a nice selection of special tour/rental packages all year around.
I confess Canada has a special place in my heart as one of those countries I would seriously consider moving to if I could. What a great place this looks like to visit.
Let's see, on foot from southwest Missouri to Quebec would be about ... that works out to ...
[tags]Blueberry Lake Resort, Canada, resort packages, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
‘Mad scientists’ create life — well, sort of, and they aren’t really mad
Funny how you see things according to your predisposition to see them, isn't it? The title of this story demonstrates that I saw waaaaayyyy to many "mad scientist" movies when I was a kid.
I was looking around the Washington Post website and ran onto this article about scientists in Maryland who created from scratch an entire microbial chromosome. If you follow that link, you'll find a story with a headline which reads:
"Md. Scientists Build Bacterial Chromosome."
Those clever wags at the Washington Post use "Md.," an abbreviation for "Maryland." Coming just before "Scientists," of course my eye and brain made the connection to the bizarre nature of this experiment and saw "Mad" as in crazy instead of "Md." as in Maryland.
Because the story may well be worth of the old movie villain mad scientists: This news certainly raises the bar a notch closer to creating fully functioning artificial "life." Given the nature of science, the nature of human beings, and the availability of enough money, and I suppose that's inevitable. It's not a matter of "if," it's a matter of "when." (It could, of course, be "already.)
What do you think? Is artificial life, a genuinely man-made living creature, something you would feel uncomfortable with? I would -- or, rather, I do, whichever. In my thinking, this really does belong in the realm of the mad scientists of my childhood movie days. I wish we could find a way to confine it to fiction.
[tags]artificial life, mad scientists, Maryland scientists, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
If you are a student or parent of a student, this scholarship search site may help you
Speaking of economic aid packages -- if you're a college student, soon to be a college student, or are the parent of such, you probably need all the economic aid you can find. I'm speaking specifically of scholarships, and there are plenty of them out there for students of every sort in every location.
The specialty of this site, "Scholarships.com," is their database and their search functions. According to the website, they have listings for 2.7 million scholarships and grants totaling more than $19 billion. Yes, that's billion with a "B." You can find scholarships applications of all sorts, just by registering for free and searching their constantly updated databases. The sign-up and search functions let you register as a student, parent, or educator.
This is a useful site offering real "one stop shopping" if you're looking for a way to fund your education. Take a look for yourself.
[tags]college scholarships, scholarships applications, Scholarships.com, just a guy who reads the papers[/tags]
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