Geo-Paleo Blogs from around the World (#1)

Well I figured I would start adding Paleo and Geo blog links to my website and sort of sponsor them here. The first blog that I found is from the UK and by a female Paleo student. You can check it out here:

http://www.ethicalpalaeontologist.com/

I will also be keeping a compilation list of blogs on the sidebar <---- (over there)

The Me Meme

Ok, I was tagged quite a while ago by Rebecca Here to do a "meme". And since I have never doen one before this is new to me. Here's what it has been described to me to do:

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

Here I am sitting at work with my moutnains behind me:



And since I'm pretty sure noone reads this I am not tagging anyone.

My Christmas Gift - A Voice Activated R2D2

Hehe, here is a video of my Christmas gift that my lovely wife got me.

7 Stupid People

This is great. It is an Article over at Cracked.com which goes into a little detail about stupid people who have tried to sue the Scientific Method (and thankfully lost).

http://www.cracked.com/article_16896_7-stupid-people-who-sued-scientific-method.html

If you don't feel like reading the entire article here is a brief synopsis.
The lawsuits include:

1. A lawsuit stating the Large Hadron Collider was going to destroy the Earth by a botanist.

2. A lawsuit against testing to verify if voting machines work by the makers of the voting machines.

3. A lawsuit to redefine pi as a number easier to remember. (I see no problem remembering 3.1415926somethingsomethingsomething)

4. A lawsuit stating that water retained all the medicines that have been diluted in it, no matter how diluted the water was.

5. A lawsuit that vitamins cure AIDS. (you have to check out the picture on the page, it is classic)

6. A lawsuit by scientists against the government to change the status of polar bears from threatened to endangered and a countersuit by oil and steel companies to get it removed all together.

7. And a lawsuit against NASA for putting a 300 kilogram bullet into a comet which caused changes in the natural balance of the universe. (Best quote from the article "Which was awesome, because not nearly enough space missions are directed by Michael Bay.")

Star Wars Update

I just wanted to post that I have added a new checklist to my Star Wars page over at my website. This checklist is for all available Digital stories on the internet (that I am aware of) and the location of said stories. If anyone wants any stories that I have please feel free to contact me (Jazinator@hotmail.com)

Jurassic Park 4 Cancelled?

Jurassic Park 4 canceled (or cancelled, apparently both are correct)?
Oh someone up there actually listed to me.

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/164535/jurassic_park_4_canned.html

National Parks Visit - Golden Spike

So our first foray into the wide world of Utah's National Parks is the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Why? Because it is close. And it was pretty fun, although in the middle of nowhere, literally.


The sign on the way into the park.


RR Crossing with the trains in the distance.



Me in front of the Jupiter



Veronica stopping the trains from colliding.



Veronica and I in front of the Jupiter.


The last rail laid for the Transcontinental Railroad.

You can find these as well as my other National Park pictures on my website Here.

My Last Name

I found this online regarding my last name (Lehane) and thought it was pretty cool.


Among the interesting tidbits I ran across is the meaning of the origin of the name, which I got from the Ancestry.com website. "Lehane" is a reduced Anglicized form of the Gaelic 'Ó Liáithan', meaning 'a descendant of Liáithan', a personal name from a diminutive of 'liáth' which translates as 'gray'. Therefore 'Ó Liáithan' translates to English as 'a descendant of Gray'. This opens the remote possibility, that the Gray and Lehane family lines share a distant but common ancestry.


And regarding my last name, I was listening to this song and it made me think of the post.