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OK, I haven’t exactly made up my mind on whether this is a good idea, but it’s going to happen. New York City in its wisdom will be building the largest Ferris wheel in the world and it will be located on Staten Island, my home town borough. Quick New York City geography lesson: NYC is made up of five boroughs – Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island), the last one there the smallest, least populated, least known, often called the “forgotten ...

Today is Friday, my son is at school but I'll go pick him up in a few minuets. I don't have school on fridays so I have been reading and doing stuff I need to do, house work and things like that. I am currently reading 'Regeneration' by Pat Barker and enjoying it a lot. I am also reading Wolf's autobiography.

I am very busy at school as usual and just read a whole lot. My son is going to his dad today so I am gonna try and get a lot done this weekend. For the first time since we ...

The Hobbit is coming to the movies towards the end of the year and looks as good as the Lord of the Rings was. I'm doing my daily check of certain websites for comics/movie news when there is an article on a female character Tauriel in the film. The Grumpy Dinosaur searches thru his few active brain cells trying a bit desperately to remember this lady from the book. With no success. The short term memory loss that has been troubling him lately is spreading to long term having last read the Tolkien ...

A few months ago I read War and Peace for the usual reasons--one to say I did it and one to please a friend online from Russia that I had an interest in learning more about her country. War and Peace had many good moments to it but was wildly earratic in story pacing and character development. The main lady Natasha never in my mind rose above spoiled brat status and Pierre was a model for the Walking Dead in personality and interests. I felt Gogol the much better Russian writer. After about three ...

I came across this wonderful video. Forget the hype on “bionic beak.” It’s just a hard nylon that’s used in a myriad of parts. Also the 3-D modeling program supposedly “typically used in aerospace” is nothing special and not just used in aerospace. It’s probably Pro/ENGINEER software (here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creo_Elements/Pro); all mechanical engineers use it, not just aerospace. Nonetheless it makes me proud as a mechanical engineer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHS546TZxXU ...