Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Ma and Wally

My godson and his great-grandmother. So cute.

The Rhubarb Trilogy - Jam

The things you can find on YouTube! How to make rhubarb jam, every step including picking it in the garden. I found this after watching the clip above.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Pick your candidate

If you haven't seen this yet, it's a short quiz on your political beliefs, which gives results of which political candidate you most closely agree with. Select a Candidate 2008

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Peace Prize

I have to say I'm disappointed with the choice of Al Gore for the Nobel Peace Prize. I've spent my career in the areas of environment and alternative energy, so a number of people approached me on Friday morning, smiling, to talk about it. Yes, it brings further attention to issues of the environment, which is good. But Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is misleading and emotive. He lacks scientific rigor and just goes for the heart-strings. I'm not a big fan.

I was pleased to see that they tempered it by sharing the prize with the UN's IIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but the whole thing strikes me as political and Hollywood.