Hey everyone!

How are you doing? Hopefully all is well with you. It’s that time again, when the in-laws descend upon us for the annual family reunion. Good food and interesting family dynamics, to say the least.

But that means that I am not able to get to my computer nearly as much as I’d like. I’ll try to remember the funny stuff to share with you and blog if I get a chance.

Anyway, I’d better get back to cleaning. Here is my advice to you for today. Never ever adopt a husky. For one they have wicked senses of humor and love to make a fool of you. But mainly the shedding twice a year is CRAZY! How the hell am I supposed to clean for company when she’s shedding by the pound every day!? HA.. it’s crazy.

I also think she waits to shed until she comes back inside. Sigh… Ok.. back to cleaning up as much dog hair as I can manage, and other cleaning chores before company gets here tomorrow.

Take care and I’ll blog when I can. Hopefully it’s only a week and I’ll manage a post or two anyway.

Recently I wrote this post on my other blog. In a spirit of openness, I’ve decided to share this post with you. If you’re religious, my goal is not to offend you but to show you something important.

Atheists are good people too. We have morals, we care and love and have wonder and passion. We just believe in one less god than religious folks. I think it’s important to share this with everyone and to stop hiding in the atheism closet just to avoid criticism or ostracism.

Anyway, here is my original post which you can find at my new main blog:

It seems in America today, being an atheist is tantamount to being unpatriotic. We’re constantly labeled “militant” by christians. My friend Hess did a blog post about it which I thought made a lot of sense. He defined militant and passionate. I agree with him, I’m a passionate atheist. And I’ve honestly never met a militant one. I have met angry ones, though. But personally, I get angry too. I think we have a lot to be angry about.

Anyway, I’ve been quiet about my atheism for 8 years. I keep my mouth shut. I never confront people, I never even mention it to people. It’s a personal thing. Or it has been. I’m not ashamed of being godless. I just don’t care for confrontation, and I don’t like offending people.

But why should I have to hide who I am? It’s more acceptable to be gay than atheist now. But maybe if all of us closet heathens came out and showed that we’re here and we’re.. uh.. not queer necessarily.. uh.. relatively nice ethical people, it won’t be so polarized.

Ok, so that’s a pipe dream. But since I started Believers Anonymous, and now Heaving Dead Cats, I realize it’s time for me to stand up and be myself.

I’m Neece. And I’m an Atheist. And I’m a Good Person.

A friend of mine sent me a link to this very cool 6 minute video. I’ve never seen water used as art in this fashion. It’s very neat. It’s apparently in Canal City which is in Japan.

After all these years, I’ve stumbled upon PROOF that Neo, from the Matrix, caused the bombings of the World Trade Center on 9-11. This is ground breaking, jaw dropping factual evidence taken from a reliable video source. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t think I’m ready to eat rats. Hell, I can’t even eat squid or oysters. Rats? No, not gonna happen.

But over in India, they lose half of their grain stock to the vermin. And people over there are poor and hungry, so maybe it’s not such a bad idea? Vijay Prakash, secretary of the state’s welfare department has come up with a plan to put rat meat on menus even in prestigious hotels.

Ok, that’s just crazy. Rat meat under glass with new potatoes and rice? Hmm.. NOT. Apparently there are places in India where people eat rats regularly. But I think the fancy restaurants and hotels might be pushing the idea a bit far.

Well, it does solve several problems at once though. The rat population is diminished by eating them, so people would have a new source of protein in their diet, and the grain stocks would not be eaten so much so more grain would be available.

Still, the whole idea is quite unappetizing to me. Then again, I’m not in India and I’m not hungry.

Found here at UTI and Here.

In a giant leap for clean energy, MIT professor Daniel Nocera and his team, have developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas. This paves the way for large scale use of solar power.

Getting energy from the sun isn’t the hard part, it seems. It’s storing that energy that has been a problem.

These guys at MIT were inspired by how plants perform photosynthesis. Their revolutionary method uses abundant, non-toxic natural materials.

I won’t get into all the details, but I just wanted to share it with you because it seems pretty important and wonderful.

Here’s a link to MIT where they have a video of Daniel Nocera describing the new process and a lot more details.

This is just the beginning though. It’s still not really cost effective, but other scientists will be able to run with it and we’ll see where it all leads us in the near future.

Nocera hopes that within 10 years, we’ll be able to power our homes in daylight through photovoltaic cells, while using excess solar energy to produce hydrogen and oxygen to power our own household fuel cell.

Of course, the power companies will not like this. But hopefully it will all happen anyway.

Months ago I thought I had bronchitis because I had this horrible cough. I got so tired from being unable to lay down without coughing that I finally broke down and saw a doctor for the first time in several years.

Turns out it was allergies. She recommended loratadine, which is cool because it’s available over the counter, and is generic so it’s pretty cheap as well. A friend of mine said it worked for him too, but don’t miss a day because you’ll really get your allergies back with a vengeance.

So I’ve been taking it all Spring and Summer. I noticed that if I take it later than normal, I can really tell that it’s gone from my system, so it really seems to help a great deal with sneezing, stuffy head, watery eyes, all that nonsense.

Well, today I woke up and felt like I had missed a dose even though I hadn’t. Anyway, for some reason, something in the air is driving me crazy. I’ve been sneezing all day long, and somebody somehow dumped a load of wet cement in my head. I’m completely miserable.

Why am I telling you this? Well, because I don’t have the energy to find something interesting for you today. I want to crawl in bed and sleep for a month or two. For some reason my arms feel numb and heavy, too. I think I may have bird flu. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Just kidding. I don’t like fish.

So there’s this new networking tool called Scoutle.
I’ll let this 4 minute video explain it, since it does a very good job:

If you join, find me, I’m ZeNeece on there. Make a connection with me and we can support each other effortlessly.

Experience browsing in a full screen 3D interface for online videos and photos with PicLens. It’s free, too, which is even cooler.

This is pretty neat. It looks slick, and on my Vista machine loaded with RAM, it works flawlessly. Not sure how it would work with less RAM, so let me know if you try it.

This is a great way, especially if you’re like me with an incredibly short attention span, to scan what’s going on. You can search through images and videos, and also discover news stories in several categories.

There’s a feature to let you share photos and videos, but I haven’t tried it yet. I would love it if they made it easy to quickly download the image and/or video. That would make it nearly perfect. You can even shop at Amazon through it.

It doesn’t work everywhere, but so far I’ve found it to be a fun and colorful way to browse the web. Give it a try and tell me how you like it.

College is expensive. But if you look around, you might find that education can be free. We live in a world full of information, but sometimes you just have to know how to search for it.

A friend of mine wrote about MIT and their free classes online. It sounds great. The only catch is, you don’t get credits for the classes you take, so it can’t get you towards a degree, but it’s Free Information. It’s pretty hard to beat.

While looking into MIT, I found a lot of other great colleges and universities are now doing the same thing. Here’s a brief list. I’m sure there’s much more out there if you look: Read the rest of this entry »