Coolest fish ever Mola mola (common name: ocean sunfish) Heaviest bony fish: part of the Tetraodontiformes (same family as pufferfishes) historically up to ten feet long and up to 4927 pounds and they eat jellyfish; a medium-sized female can lay over 300,000,000 eggs most of which don't survive (obviously). They look like giant heads, first time I saw ...
Been a rough week for the USA in general. I have found the Fort Hood incident interesting in that for once we have a shooter that's still alive and we might actually learn a thing or two. Have to be very very careful here as I state this but officers that are experiencing troubles DO NOT have the support system say that an enlisted person does. It's in the nature of the requirements for leadership. My experience in the Air Force was that (rarely) when an officer deep sixed their career it was ...
Updated 11-09-2009 at 11:57 PM by mtpspur
As many of you know my husband and I are in the process of adopting a child overseas. The country we are adopting from is Kazakhstan. We feel we should know some basic Russian so we can hopefully communicate with some of the Officials we meet along the way. We will have an interpreter with us but it would still be nice to be able say some things to them in Russian. We want to make a good impression!! My husband ordered some CD’s which came with 2 books. I started listening to ...
The only person I've ever seen die was my grandmother -- about seven years ago. Cancer. My mother, aunts, and wife were in her hospital room. We were on death watch. The end was near. Grandmother had an abdomen so full of cancer it looked like she had swallowed a cantaloupe. She was doped up on morphine to ease her pain. She had as much as she wanted. The end was coming. I remember watching her chest rise and fall, rise and fall, rise and fall. MAs & ...
Updated 11-09-2009 at 11:44 AM by The Comedian
And the few occasions when I do venture out into public usually only serves the purpose of reminding me why I don't like going out in public, and confirming to me, how much I don't like people. To use a favorite expression of my mother's "Too dumb to live" I was in the met store standing in line, and this woman behind me was talking to someone else, and I could not help but to hear what she was saying, and first she was talking about how she adopted this cat, (which at ...
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