Last night I finished reading The Chase by Clive Cussler, which is one of his most recent novels. The Chase paints vivid images of a detective tracking down an unlikely murderous bank robber in the American West. More of the Same? This was the first Clive Cussler book that I have read outside of Cussler’s [...]
There’s nothing like the old fashioned fun offered by county fairs. This site is an excellent resource for Virginia county fairs: Virginia’s County Fairs highlight agricultural heritage and celebrate the rural ways of life. Where else can visitors see livestock, watch a rodeo, ride a ferris wheel, judge a beauty pageant and purchase local produce, [...]
After posting a photo and audio clip from yesterday’s Pageant of Steam, I uploaded a couple of short steam tractor video clips taken at the event. Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;} js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1″; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, “script”, “facebook-jssdk”));
Today, my wife and I went to the Shenandoah Valley Steam and Gas Engine Association Pageant of Steam in Berryville, Virginia. Unfortunately, a thunderstorm arrived just in time to rain on the parade of steam, but the event went on as scheduled. I used a cassette recorder to make a short audio recording of the [...]
Google is a successful company employing a lot of smart people. They made over $4 billion in earnings off of $16 billion in revenue last year. They continue to enjoy a growing share of the search engine market. Is Google so Smart that it Makes You Stupid? Nicholas Carr at the Atlantic Online asks that [...]