I have a Ph.D. degree. I love to travel, visit museums, national parks, and places few people know. I share my travel stories and more on this blog.
Read moreAre you among the world’s best lovers? OnePoll.com conducted a poll of 15,000 women from 20 countries asking them to rate nations on the ability of their men in bed and to give reasons for their answers. Who are the world’s worst lovers? Results of the poll showed that the…
Read moreNo, I did not originally come up with the title. There is a team from Kansas State University Geography Department that mapped the 7 Deadly Sins across America, by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). See where South Dakota is on the map. Are South…
Read moreAt exactly 1 AM, September 29, 2009, the Mediacom Cable TV signal in Brookings, South Dakota was cut off. It has been over an hour already since the interruption and the signal hasn’t been restored yet!
Read moreMy little brother, Jeffrey, who works in Manila, was among the thousands of people affected by the tropical storm “Ondoy” (international codename: Ketsana) that hit the Philippines this weekend. After my sister (in Illinois) and I heard about the worsening situation in Manila due to flooding caused by the torrential…
Read moreJesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney, has obtained a copy of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing video tapes through the federal Freedom of Information Act. The video is now posted online. If you watch the video, something is actually lacking. The video shows events minutes long before the blast…
Read moreWarning to all those planning to get their family pictures developed in Walmart — Walmart employees are very strict on bath-time photos! Even if the photos are clearly innocent family photos, Walmart employees will look at it as very sexual. This is what happened to a poor couple who took…
Read moreHow could a man sue Bank Of America for an amount that is even bigger than the world’s $60 trillion GDP? Dalton Chiscolm is suing the bank for 1,784 billion trillion dollars. Ask what NYU math Professor Sylvain Cappell have to say about this: “These are the kind of numbers…
Read moreIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech at the UN today. Netanyahu’s address was seen as his response to Pres. Obama speech. The speech brought some good “signs of peace”. He called on his Palestinian neighbors to begin peace negotiations immediately, without preconditions. He address the wider Arab world…
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