Tim's Reflection Connection

Today we really don’t understand how horrible Polio was. It was a devastating diagnosis in the not-too-distant past: paralysis and death. Jonas Salk created a safe and effective vaccine, a cure, and Polio has been virtually eradicated from the face of the earth. When Dr. Salk was asked who owned the patent for the vaccine, [...]

Makes me shutter to think what 2020 will look like! Source:  Design Milk

Linda Allen has re-designed the LED bulb to 7 watts, which emulates the power of a 50-watt bulb. The lamps are wireless, rechargeable and waterproof. They can be used indoors or outdoors, and might revolutionize the way we use outdoor space. They give consumers the ability to put a lamp in the middle of a [...]

It seems more clever than practical, but this coat hanger chair by Joey Zeledón is colorful if nothing else.  Maybe it would serve a purpose in a hotel. Source:  Coat Check Chair by Joey Zeledón

First it was ads that cover your entire car… Surely this would be against the ordinances in the hood or the whole city. I would be livid if anyone did this in any neighborhood in which I lived. What have we come to in an economic system when people can only afford to pay their [...]

This is a stunning time lapse by Terje Sorgjerd! I never really had a desire to visit Spain until seeing this! From his Vimeo page: This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide. Spain´s highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world [...]

Despite all of the unfounded rumors, Purple Peeps Eaters do not really exist. I set all of the Purple Peeps free today!

Forget the death panels in Democratic health care plan. All of our elderly will never reach old age because the Republicans plan to kill them off before then with their war on the elderly, war on the middle class, and war on the impoverished. The elderly already have to hunt of coupons to be able [...]

I don’t get into telling jokes.  But this one was cute.  Hat tip to my good friend, Mark. One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church staring up at a large plaque.  It was covered with names and small American flags mounted on either side of it. The six-year old had been [...]

I’m simple minded, really. So here’s my budget proposal in broad strokes: Tax the wealthy people the same way they were taxed when I was a child:  no more, no less. End the wars.  No, now.  We are not the world’s police force. Slash the non-personnel related defense department budget (which has soared) to pre [...]

I received many well wishes via email, phone calls, cards, text messages, and Facebook posts. Odd how birthday wishes have so changed over the years! Thanks to everyone for thinking of me. My favorite present so far: the horrendously loud and noisy neighbors lost their rental agreement and had to move. I know that sounds [...]

This is an interesting, short video on the national debt.  Our government is so horribly corrupt I doubt it will ever be any better in my lifetime. Sad isn’t the word. US national debt

I don’t care about a person’s religious affiliations or lack thereof (as long as they are not trying to force anyone else to live by them). I don’t care about a person’s race or ethnicity, and they can’t really force that on other people. I don’t care about a person’s national origin, eye color, body [...]

I love a good short story.  One of the Twitter accounts I follow fits a whole story into a single tweet (@VeryShortStory).  Awesome!  And so is this an awesome short as well!  (Hat tip to Arthur!) Table 7 – short film from Marko Slavnic on Vimeo.

The Republican Party, with its needless 2 wars costing trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and its trillion dollar bailout of the greedy, self-serving bank executives who then gave themselves hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses on the backs of people who actually DO pay taxes (Yes, don’t forget for one second that [...]

So, this morning Conrad seemed to be in a bad mood at the hospital . The doctor said she thought it was a reaction to the pain medication. He is urinating fine, and his urine is less bloody. This afternoon the vet called and said that Conrad was doing well.  “He’s urinating up a storm [...]

The Phonofone III is a clever, beautiful, acoustic audio enhancer, or passive amplifier, exclusively for the iPhone. It uses no electricity, just provides an acoustic shell that boosts the volume of the iPhone about 10db making it roughly 4x louder than the iPhone’s own internal speakers. As you can see from the pictures below, it [...]