Recycled Electrons - Blog of Keith Horowitz

I was shopping yesterday at Wal-Mart. My wallet was feeling a little light, so I decided to get money back with my purchase. I was thinking about getting say $15 dollars. The smallest option was $20. So I chose $20. The friendly checker offered to give me a $20 dollar bill or four $5s. I was going to get the $20, but then I thought about the times I wish I had smaller bills for things like tips at restaurants. I was wondering about getting a $10 and two $5s. I peaked into her drawer and saw why she didn't offer giving me a $10. Her cash drawer had no $10s. She explained that they didn't give them any $10s to start with. She said any $10s she got were from customers. So I'm guessing I was her first or one of her first customers of the day. This reminded me of something I've noticed a few times. I told her, 'Yeah - it seems like you always run out of $5 bills too soon. But you don't run out of nickels.' She said, 'Yeah, why is that?...

Still Life - click for larger picture Live frog at the Museum of Natural History, New Your City. Taken Oct 12, 2004. For Photo Friday

The FCC Song Political commentary too. :) Lots of F* word. :) Thanks for the link Anna-Banana !

While we were on the East coast, 2 of my boys wanted to visit Liberty Science Center . We had a lot of fun there. When we lived in New Jersey, we used to be members. About once a month, they would have a member's night. The place was closed to regular admission, and they had many extra activities. I'd take my [eldest] son up to it pretty regularly. That place is one of the things I miss since moving to Colorado. When we finished, I decided to look around in the store. The boys got a couple of toys. I also got all three a microbe each. These are the stuffed animals of microbes. The include an interesting variety of problem-causing microbes. But the plush toys are really cute, and the boys really liked them ThinkGeek :: Plush Microbes

See a list of Spyware removers that ADD new spyware - on TechChatter: Bad Spyware Apps

2004-10-02 DARC meeting pictures on my robot blog: Roboton

I just wrote about starting out, or enhancing your skills with a digital camera, based on what I've learned on: TechChatter: Digital Camera Insights

After posting the picture of Pikes Peak to my blog last week, I got a nice comment from Michelle asking when she would see snow here in Colorado Springs. After writing a reply to Michelle, I realized that others might be interested, so I've included it here. Checking my pictures, the first day of real snow in town last year was exactly a year ago! October 25, I have pictures of my kids out playing in a about an inch of snow in the backyard. But if you are new to Colorado Springs, the snow situation may be a bit surprising to you. It was to me. I moved here from NJ 4 years ago. Where I lived in central NJ, we didn't have all that much real snow most winders. Mostly slushy stuff. But there were a few bigger snows. Heavy, wet snow. Back breaking to shovel. And it would get dirty and stay around for a long time. When I moved to Colorado, a bunch of people said: I hope you like snow! The truth is I do. But, it seems that most of the moisture that heads towar...

Funny blog entry on thompsonclan6: This Full House: Mommy Remembers The 80's Monday

The Payson Roundup: Terror alert issued to school bus drivers This is concerning. Found on CUT TO: blog

I had noticed a few times in the past few months that my blog showed up on BlogShares . I ws intregued that my blog was rated a value - and glad to see that it has some positive value. But I didn't understand who would pay money for shares in a blog. Well today, when I noticed that someone had invested in my blog, I looked closer at the site. It is a *simulation*. A game! - Okay - I guess if I had looked at the title where it said 'Fantasy Blog Shares Market' I might have understood sooner! :) So it seems all you have to do is sign up to get virtual $500 to invest in blogs. More links can mean more value. Also you can get shares in your own blogs by signing up and putting a blogshares icon on your site. So I started investing this morning. I spent all but a penny investing. I also signed up all my blogs, so I'd have more shares in each. We will have to see where it goes. Then just a short while ago, I found an interesting blog. After I read some mo...

I occasionally check sitemeter to see what kind of links and searches point to my blogs. A few times I've noticed that the searches matched a mispelled word. A word I spelled wrong on a blog. Oops. Then the big question: is it better to leave the typo, or correct it? If I leave it - it matches the search engine indexed wording. If I change it, will I get less hits? :) So far I've always corrected my spelling mistakes. I had one that I fixed this morning, where I had 'cloud' spelled with the 'L' in the wrong position on my picture's blog.

Well, there may be a couple of you that noticed that I haven't done much with my blog lately. The main reason is that I was away on vacation. Last week we flew back to NJ and NY to see family. The trip culminated in another visit to Mohonk. We spent Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon at Mohonk. It was a grand visit. This year we had even more family there. One of my favorite things to do there is hiking the rock scramble and crevice. When I have enough time, sometimes I'll even start with the labyrinth. This time I went through the whole labyrinth all the way up the crevice and up the tower twice! We went as a group on Saturday. But after getting through the labyrinth, and feeling some rain, the rest of the group decided to take a stairway up to a main path. I kept going all the way, leading a couple of strangers who were new to the hike up the crevice. Even though I was kind of sore, most of the group wanted to try again. My two older boys wanted to try....

Sunrise on the mountain I was driving to work, it was cloudy. We had snow the previous afternoon. Suddenly as I was driving down the hill, a hole opened in the clouds. There was Pikes Peak, with a fresh cover of snow, glowing pinkish-purple from the sunrise. I pulled over to the side, put on my hazzards, and took some pictures. I was not expecting to be able to see the mountain that morning due to the clouds. For Photo Friday theme 'Unexpected'.

APOD: 2004 October 7 - Moon Lightning Very cool picture! Found on Glimpse of a GRRL

Muzak on hold story: Shark Tank: Sometimes the quickest solution is the best one

Picture Theme: Speed Taken a night at DisneyWorld For Photo Friday Challenge