I’ve started saving the pop tops from soda cans. A few weeks ago I found the directions on the Internet on how to make a really cool belt (or necklace or bracelet) from ribbons and soda can pop tops. It takes a couple hundred pop tops to make a belt, so it will probably take [...]
My favorite all-time photo is a picture of my cousin trying to put my brother’s hair into a million little teeny tiny pigtails. I snapped the photo a couple of years ago. My brother’s hair was just an inch long, so I simply could not imagine that it COULD be put [...]
I was reading on the Time.com website that 125,000 western lowland gorillas have recently been discovered deep in the Republic of Congo forests. This is great news because up until the discovery, it was believed that their population was fewer than 50,000, which put them on the endangered species list. There has been much concern [...]
I was reading on the Time.com website that the good old tire gauge is getting a political workout! I was reading that Barack Obama was saying that it would be a good idea for everyone to check their tire pressure and make sure that their tires are properly inflated. That would help to reduce wasted [...]
I was reading on time.com that Exxon reported the largest quarterly profit EVER for any US company. Why does this not surprise me? The price of gasoline is outrageous, and we all know that the salaries and benefits of the oil company executives are obscene. I think that we should switch over to biofuel made from [...]
