I’m going on an internet sabbatical. This will include my blog, the forums I frequent, and most blogs that I read.

I expect to start back after Thanksgiving.

So, a week ago we got free music at NoiseTrade.com

Now we get free literature at http://evangellyfish.com/

What a world!

Here are a few lines I’ve read or listened to the past few days, that sort of stand out to me.

“Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.”
Ecclesiastes 7:19

“Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.”
Aslan, in The Magician’s Nephew

“Where’s all my heroes?//Have they all gone away?//If ever I needed a Saviour//Well, today’s the day.”
Dime Store Prophets, Whirlwind

Does anyone have suggestions for magazines for children? Geneva will be 7 this year, so anything up to that age range would be great. I’d actually like to get something different for each of the kids.

After seeing this article, I logged in to Geico’s website and updated my vehicle usage. I have consistently been riding my bike to work at least 4 days a week the past several months That change saved me about $30 on my six month premium.

http://www.physorg.com/news134042521.html

Research shows that when red wine is consumed with red meat, it inhibits the formation and absorption of toxic chemicals formed in the digestion of the meat.

Wine: It Does the Body Good

My friend Chris Twittered (Tweeted?) about this site, http://bicycletutor.com/. Very helpful stuff

When Bilbo was ninety-nine he adopted Frodo as his heir, and brought him to live at Bag End; and the hopes of the Sackville-Bagginses were finally dashed. Bilbo and Frodo happened to have the same birthday, September 22nd. ‘You had better come and live here, Frodo my lad,’ said Bilbo one day; ‘and then we can celebrate our birthday-parties together.’ At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and the coming of age at thirty-three.

Twelve more years passed. Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. Bilbo was going to be eleventy-one, 111, a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit (the Old Took himself had only reached 130); and Frodo was going to be thirty-three, 33, an important number: the date of his ‘coming of age’.

Zoo performs first reverse vasectomy on horse

(AP) — Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo have revealed they reversed a vasectomy on an endangered horse to allow it to reproduce naturally - the first-known operation of its kind on an endangered species.
Veterinarians said Monday that the surgery was performed in October 2007 on a Przewalski horse named Minnesota.

Luis Padilla, the zoo veterinarian who performed the reversal surgery, said the procedure was a first for this species and likely for any endangered species.