Jeff's Thoughts

I called the orthopedist this morning and found that he was in surgery. So, I left a message with his staff about the xray discovery. They...

Well, I just did some digging and found a "standard" hand xray for comparison. Maybe my suspected second fracture is just where o...

You know you're in trouble when your doctor says "Ok, now I'm going to have to hurt you, hold tight..." ouch. As you mig...

Only I could manage to break a bone while at my soccer game, but not while playing soccer. Last night, after playing the first half in goal...

[disclaimer: it's late, and I've not reread this at all before posting it. there are likely grammatical errors and such in there. ...

Reuters had a story which ran at the top of Yahoo today titled "Taliban Deploy 10,000 Fighters for Attack" and then had this photo...

Looks like about 2-3% of human CO2 emissions come from airplane exhaust. That means that airplanes account for: (3% from airplanes) * (...

You can't make this stuff up... Latest Government figures show that the flowers that make up the average bunch have flown 33,800 miles t...

When people aren't being politically correct, they can say some funny things. I love it. [copy-paste from the Drudge Report ] Preside...

Here's another article which, after raising some of the same complaints that I have about this global warming debate, cites Dr. Svensma...

Amy sent me this link to an article by a climatologist in Canada who, more or less, is making the same complaints that I did earlier, altho...

Thanks to Jay (see assortment of comments below) my global warming research continues, although to be honest I may need to take a bit of a b...

Ok, so global warming has been all over the news with the recent conference and global warming report that came out today. I've been co...

Today Kaitlyn's school is celebrating it's 100th day by having a "100-day" museum. Each of the kids was asked to do a pro...

So thus far, I've tested a variety of people for tasting ability using some test strips I ordered from a science teacher supply company....

Well who would have thought, Bears/Colts in the superbowl! That is just crazy talk. Too bad it wasn't being hosted in the midwest, bec...

So Amy is reading this book, and in it the subject of "supertasters" came up. The book goes on to explain that supertasters, in g...

Also, vote for the Superbowl winner in my new PollDaddy poll to the right -> Here we go for this weekend. Dallas over Seattle New Englan...

Well, maybe. Actually who knows, but there has been quite a bit of rampant speculation (led by yours truly) as to who might be the next Dol...

Happy New Year everyone! As the first day of the post-holiday season, today also ends my 2-and-a-half week hiatus from exercise and worryin...