Thursday, November 15, 2012

WH Petition to Investigate HAARP, CHEMTRAILS, and...

Editor's Note:This was supposed to go in my Interesting News Items blog not sure if it was my mistake or if the updated Blogger for Android app sent it to the wrong blog.

Not sure what they are trying to accomplish with this petition...if this is really going on, do you think that the government would actually admit to it?


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Fairly Accurate Though Sensationalized Article on Deepwater Oil and Gas Industry

This guy has most of it right, though he makes it sound like they are using a lot of untried tech. Also, the water depth that he states is not the deepest water drilled in for the Gulf of Mexico.

The offshore drilling life: cramped and dangerous - Yahoo! Finance

Sunday, October 28, 2012

OFTAS Podcast (Or Roni Giving Game TIps for Wipeout on X-Box)

I have been thinking about starting a podcast...mainly about the same stuff or similar things I post about here. I have been waiting for the time and the motivation to do it.
Well, I finally got it. My youngest daughter was playing around with my wife's iPod Touch and decided that she was going to pretend that she was a host on the X-Box game from ABC "Wipeout". So she recorded an intro and then started giving game tips. It was too cute coming from a 5 year old, so I had to post it somewhere.

I found a free podcasting host called Podbean. They have free and paid solutions, so I signed up for a free account. It was really easy to do from my PC, but I had trouble when I initially attempted to create the account from my Android tablet. Unsure what the issue was.

They host *.mp3 files, so I found a free *.m4a converter and turned it into an *.mp3. Uploading was easy on the Podbean platform. Now the OFTAS Blog has a podcast also. I embedded a player here to the right that will play the latest episode.

Click to DOWNLOAD an *mp3 file of Roni's first podcast.



Wednesday, October 10, 2012

7 Signs We Are Heading for a Mass Extinction?

7 Signs We Are Heading for a Mass Extinction

So what I want to know is if this has been building up for a while (ref. Part about extinction of megafauna), and the climate change we are experiencing is not entirely the fault of human activity, how can we avert a Mass Extinction? I am all for conservation and preserving/repairing the environment where we can, I don't see how we can impact this natural process enough to change this trend.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

File this as "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? "

So, the neighbors in the back had roof damage from Hurricane Gustave...

Twice since then we have believed that they were beginning to repair the damage. Twice we have been disappointed. They only put up more tarps.

Here we are 24 hours or so from landfall of Tropical Storm / Hurricane Isaac and they decide to "Tarp Up"!

Watch "Idiot neighbors prepare for Isaac" on YouTube

Let me know what you think.