I grew up in a staunchly religious family; a Southern Baptist family to be exact. When I was about ten-years-old I was told that Satan was working through rock and roll bands and that rock and roll was filled with subliminal messaging. Subliminal messaging would turn our nation’s youth into devil-worshiping hooligans and imperil the very […]
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Very Rare STS-134 and STS-135 Space Shuttle Memorabilia
July 10, 2011 
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I’m extremely fortunate to be friends with a NASA engineer who works on the Shuttle engines. My buddy Eric is more of a NASA nut than I am. Eric understood the historic and significant nature of the last two space shuttle launches, and he was in a position to create very rare and very impressive […]
Continue reading STS-135: End of an Era
July 8, 2011 1 Comment
As I type this, Atlantis is travelling over 15,000 miles an hour at the 8-minute mark of the historic last flight of the Space Shuttle program. The space shuttle engine just cut off – and will never fire again. I view this launch with mixed feelings, as I am sure most of America and the […]
Continue readingWhy is Astrology More Popular Than Cancer?
February 22, 2010 4 Comments
This isn’t going to be a long blog; more of a mild rant, actually. Readers of my blog know I blog about anything and everything that captures my attention but mostly my blog is filled with thoughts, stories, and insights that I gather while dealing with my cancer. Recently, I also blogged about The Skinny […]
Continue readingMoon Program Scrapped – Is this Bad?
February 3, 2010 0 Comments
You’re probably read all about it by now. The White House has slashed the Ares/Constellation program from the budget. Is this the end of our dream to return to the Moon? What does this mean for the future of manned space flight? I live in Orlando, a scant 35 miles from the Kennedy Space Center. […]
Continue reading The Skinny on Astrology
February 2, 2010 1 Comment
I was born on March 26th. That make me an Aries according to Western Sun Astrology. I was also born in the Year of the Dog, according to the Chinese Zodiac. Accordingly, because of the positions of the stars and planets at the time of my birth, I have certain characteristics. For example, according to […]
Continue reading Pseudo-Science and Religion
July 21, 2009 4 Comments
I was raised in a pretty religious household. We went to church every Sunday morning. I was active in Sunday school. I often went to the less formal Wednesday services. I was a geek even then; I looked forward to “Find the Verse” contests where the person who could find a verse in the Bible […]
Continue readingAntibiotics and Super Bacteria
October 11, 2008 0 Comments
Two weeks ago, a local 18-year-old athlete died from MRSA. MRSA is a bad-ass form of staph that is resistant to most antibiotics. This kid – young and strong – was brought down by this bacteria. Now, at least one other student at his school has been diagnosed with the same infection (but it looks […]
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