How well do you know your United States? Grab the state at the
top with your cursor and drag it onto the map. How far off were
you? No cheating. Sometimes you get easy states to start off
with, sometimes you get tough ones to start. It’s not as easy as
you might think. Give it a try.

50 states game

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Funny stuff from Kyle Dunnigan I just found.

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This might get you a little upset. Here is an interesting read
about the First Lady and our hard earned tax money she is
spending while living in the White House.

Total Personal Staff members for other first ladies paid by taxpayers:

Mamie Eisenhower : 1 paid for personally out of President’s salary
Jackie Kennedy: 1
Roseline Carter: 1
Barbara Bush: 1
Hilary Clinton: 3
Laura Bush: 13
Michele Obama: 22+?

I think it’s appalling.

Read the article, theres a list of staff members.
Funny how it took some Canadian press agency to blow the
whistle on this one.

canadafreepress.com

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Well the DinKey has moved again! Can you believe that?

The new url for the new home of the DinKey is:

dinkey817.com

Put it in your favorites and tell all of your friends!

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Now that GeoCities is history, I had to find a new
home for my DinKey sale website and I did just that.
The DinKey’s new home is at t35.com. I am very
happy with them so far and I am grateful that they
offer free website hosting like GeoCities used to. Of
course there will be advertisements like Geocities
had but I don’t think they will be nearly as intrusive.
All in all, I think t35.com is going to work out just
fine for me and you should consider t35.com if you
have a need to put up a personal web presence too.

The DinKey can now be found at:

dinkey817.t35.com

Try the link, let me know if it works.

Try this one…

dinkey817.t35.com

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An extremely cool video of star tracks using timelapse digital
photagraphy. My hats off to JCMDI for excellent work.
Unfortunately they disallow video imbedding but it’s worth the
click to view his video.
Enjoy.

star spin

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A short video shot at one of my schools. We have a major
Fireant problem within our school district.

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It is more than likely that not very many people know that
Mt. Whiteny is the tallest mountain peak in the continental United
States. It is also likely that there are less people that know that
there is a three room cabin at the summit of Mt Whitney either.

In 1909 it took four weeks to build a three room cabin or hut on
Mt. Whitney. The cabin was built for astronomers to try and make
observations that might prove the existance of water on Mars. The
insurment they used was a 16 inch reflector. Today the cabin is
available to anyone that can make the 14,000 plus foot climb to
use for an over nighter or just a place to rest before they head back
down the trail.

It is interesting to note that there was no wood used in the cabin’s
construction and the cabin turned 100 years old last August. The
cabin is made out of steel, cement, stones and glass and nothing
more. In 1909, the director of the Lick Observatory told the New
York Times that the hut “should last 500 years.” That was quite a
statement.

I guess none of us will ever know if it survives another 400 years
or not just like no one could have ever guessed that there would
be anyone celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s
demonstration of the telescope last August either.

Dueling anniversaries, pretty remarkable.

via kd6hdx, good luck Dave.

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A really cool maglev z scale trainset.

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I know it’s kind of random but, just wondering if anyone knows
who this is. He turns 40 next year. I’ll bet not many under 30
knows.

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