Subject: This is crazy enough to drive you to drink!
This is crazy enough to drive you to drink!
March 28th, 2014 at 11:39 am EDTHello Friend, Ever heard of Stop signs for tourists only?Well, apparently since most North Americans don't know how to use a roundabout, when driving on the wrong sideof the road, on this island, the local authorities have put up stop signs at severa ...
Why are some folks afraid of amateur astronomers?
March 27th, 2014 at 10:05 am EDTHello Friend, Finding a good dark sky sometimes, is like trying to find a good Carribean rum punch. Seriously.At a restaurant here the other night on Turks Caicos, I ordered my first rum punch on this trip, and usually the first one is the best rem ...
Eight bucks for Strawberries?
March 26th, 2014 at 10:35 am EDTHello Friend, $8. for a container of Driscoll Strawberries! Yep, when I went to the local supermarket yesterday to do some shopping for groceries, here in Turks Caicos, no one mentioned that I should rob a bank prior to going. Seriously! ...
Observe Orion in a t-shirt
March 25th, 2014 at 3:21 pm EDTHello Friend, Orion in a T shirt. Here in Turks Caicos.I,m not going to tell you the temperature, because you likely don't want to know, unless you too arein the Caribbean.Yes, I can officially state that observing Orion in a t shirt and shorts, is a ...
A rumskullion , that's what he is, mate
March 24th, 2014 at 9:30 am EDTHello Friend, Im about to board a plane and head off to darker skies, in Turks Caicos, where observing iOrion in a t shirt is a far better prospect, than sticking around these here cold parts, and supposed Spring Weather. Anyone for ground hog ste ...
"I've never seen anything like that before!"
March 23rd, 2014 at 12:04 pm EDTHello Friend, And perhaps she never will again. Those were the words of Sam Martine, of Nanton, Alberta who recently spotted a couple of " weird, hovering lights"while watching TV with her daughter. (Were they coming to abduct Premier Allison Redfor ...
The Rosetta Stones of the Universe. Could you find one in your backyard?
March 22nd, 2014 at 10:16 am EDTHello Friend, It's all a matter of luck. Right after Premier Alison Redford, decided to resign, all of a sudden several meteors were spotted in Eastern Canada skies. Two down East in the maritimes, and one close to home, in St. Thomas, Ontario. A ...
The Worst Vernal Equinox article -ever!
March 21st, 2014 at 12:09 pm EDTHello Friend, You simply can't believe everything you read in the newspaper, and certainly not the Toronto Star. Where's Conrad Black when you really need him? (Just kiddin'.) I'll preface this Toronto star article written back in 2009, with the ...
Ripped off in Peru
March 20th, 2014 at 12:30 pm EDTHello Friend, "|Ripped off in Peru". Yesterday I got an email from a customer who had been in the store, well over a month ago, and afterdiscussing what his budget was with Alex, in the store, chose to buy a portable ...
Is Neil Degrasse Tyson, the new Carl Sagan?.
March 19th, 2014 at 10:58 am EDTHello Friend, If you haven't had the opportunity to watch the new COSMOS series, Sunday nights on Fox Television and other channels, then you've been missing out big time, and more than likely, you are living under a rockif you have not heard about i ...