Pfffft - only you Brits would consider 30mph to 50mph winds extreme weather. Why, here in west Texas, that's just a light breeze, not even news worthy. Of course, we're not sitting atop a slippery rock.
Posts by displacedtexan
7 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009
Rockall pod-dweller braces for stormy weather
Space Station in CRISIS: Furious Russia threatens to BAN US from ISS
50+ crowd are wolfing down tablets: Silver foxes are even migrating to the Twitters
WTH - Who Are You Calling @Gramps?
I’m just rather bummed by the title of the article citing 50+ then going on to characterize us as “@gramps” and “silver foxes” and “oldies.” Those are my parents, not me. Although I am usually in bed by 2030, get up several times during the night, am on Twitter (@displacedtex) and Facebook, have a MS Surface Pro 2 and a Windows Phone (does having an iPad offset that?), so maybe….oh, hell. I am old.
Now, get off my lawn. I have to update my status.
WOW! Google invents the DIGITAL WATCH: What a time to be alive
Fame-hating planets don't need to hang around STARS – boffins
Too-tall terror snapper stopped by cops again
Dinosaurs actually slimmer than we thought, say boffins
@Greg Trocchia
"While I will agree that, to our shame, the percentage of Americans who subscribe to "Flintstones Paleontology" is way too high, still, blanket condemnation of the entire country is not called for."
I consider myself to be a fairly religious, or spiritual, person (especially when compared to our heathenistic European and British friends) but I don't see any incompatibility with Biblical teachings and science. The Bible isn't a book of science, it's a book of religion / philosophy / life lessons, whatever, and I see the Biblical story of the creation as more metaphor than literal truth. To try to make it a book of science does a disservice to both spiritual matters as well as to science.