Silica gel, sensational development – This new chemical compound is expensive, and rather difficult to work with, but the results well merit its use. Exceptionally beautiful are roses, camellias, delphiniums, dahlias, Christmas roses, and daffodils preserved in gel. After continual tests, I am convinced that it is the best of all materials for drying flowers. […]
Two Weeks of Sleeping on the Floor – Trying to Get Comfortable During Severe Back Pain
When the pain of a sore back becomes nearly unbearable, what works best to control it? Here are a few different techniques I am trying, to make myself as comfortable as possible as I struggle to recover from a severe case of sciatica, in which my last lumbar disk has herniated and hit my sciatic […]
A Former Exercise Fanatic’s Guide to Dealing with Back Pain
The pain of sciatica is hard to fully describe. Just imagine being hit in the back and behind with a baseball bat, multiple times, at full force. O-u-c-h. For a newbie to serious back pain, it was a shock to go from fully fuctioning adult one minute, to flat on my back the next. Lightening […]
On the Long-awaited Cusp of a New Generation in Computing
In February of 2007, D-Wave Systems, of Burnaby, Canada, successfully demonstrated the world’s first quantum computer, to much fanfare. Known as Orion, this 16-qubit adiabatic quantum computer is designed to be scaled up to a 1024-qubit model by mid-2008 that can very quickly compute a very specific sort of problem using somewhat different properties of quantum […]
Another Boring Budget Cycle
Everyone likes to complain about taxes. It is one of the great underrated spectator sports. But few people do anything about taxes. Very, very few people take the time to study a budget. Budgets are dull, confusing and require a couple of hours to understand. Those who read a budget figure out pretty quickly that there is not much discretionary […]
Las Vegas Vacation Homes
The city of Las Vegas is situated in Nevada State in USA. It is the state’s most visited city and also the most populated in Nevada. The city is known as the casino capital of the world as one can find hundreds of casinos at every nook and corner of the city. The city is […]