The art of keeping a travel journal [link no longer active]

Promise to self to update blog.

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."
- Pablo Picasso

Just taking a few moments to enter the Blogsphere and wish everyone out there a happy holiday. I have found it really helps my sanity to stay away from the stores this time of year. (Besides, there are plenty of people out there passing out the holiday cheer in the parking lots and store lines.) Of course there are gifts to buy, so I arrived at a happy middle-ground by going to one place every night--if required--and then head back home. Keeps me from passing out the wrong kind of holiday greetings if you know what I'm talking about.

-Spater

Run Against Hunger 5K, Thanksgiving Day

...Make my next posting in like a month or two. Sheshh.

November was very busy for me. Completed the National Novel Writing Month --and I'm a 2005 winner!

More info to follow hopefully soon, sooner than soon. /BB

It has been ages--it seems--since I posted to ABIT (A Blog in Time). So much has happened this year--all good: getting into a workout regime since December 2004; Scuba Certification, May 2005; visiting family in Florida, June 2005; and completion of my first sprint triathlon, August 2005. And of course there are the friends I've made.

More to follow in a day or two.

An importance step towards incorporating blogs within the mainstream media.
Bloogers' conference emphasizes tools for reporting. Source CNN: Technology.

Just read that Andre Norton passed away. She was 93.

Her site: http://www.andre-norton.org/

I'm in love...http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/atoptics/phenom.htm

CNN's Health Library. Great reference source.

The Mars Rover Opportunity hit its one-year mark on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2005. (The Mars Rover, Spirit, celebrated its one-year anniversary, Jan. 3, 2005.)

Ya know what I think? I think we need a taarradhin in the Middle East! Thanks NPR Morning Edition! Check out 'In Other Words': Translating the Untranslatable

I can't believe you just DID that . . .

From BBC Science: Astronomers have identified the three biggest stars known to science. ..."If they were located in the same place as our own Sun - at the centre of the Solar System - the stars would stretch out further than the orbit of Jupiter."...

Okay, THAT'S big.

From Space News.com: The first detection of magnetic fields in the central stars of four planetary nebulae.

WINTER SOLSTICE: Northern winter begins on December 21st when the sun dips to its southernmost altitude of the year. Astronomers call this the "winter solstice" and it happens at precisely 12:42 GMT (7:42 a.m. EST).
from Spaceweather.com

I have discovered Yerba Mate'! Yum!! Picked up several packages of the tea at the local Trader Joes. Here's the supplier's site: Guayaki' Yerba Mate'

BBC NEWS | Technology: A team of US researchers has shown that controlling devices with the brain is a step closer.

"Free Your Mind..."

Looks like LOTR artist, Alan Lee's Book Tour kicked up yesterday. Here's his schedule on theonering.net I'll plan on popping by to see Alan when he stops by San Francisco, on the 10th.