Archive for the 'Interesting Facts' Category

Happy Summer!

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Today marks the start of summer, and the longest day of the year. It’s also International Surfing Day so get outside and hit the waves!

This Earth Day, I wish the bees would come back

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

It seems that honeybees are disappearing and no one knows why. I wouldn’t mind if those crazy Africanized bees disappeared from southern California though… If you love avocados, don’t waste your time going to the Fallbrook Avocado Festival. The website promised that I would see a giant, inflatable avocado in all it’s green glory. Well [...]

The Truth about diamonds

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

“People back home would not buy a diamond if they knew it cost someone their hand.” Jennifer Connelly, Blood Diamond This Valentine’s Day, save your money and the lives of some children on the other side of the world and don’t buy a diamond (at least not a real one). Update: MSNBC just posted a [...]

25 trips around the sun

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Earth’s Circumference (average): 24,900 miles Days Since my Birth: 9132 Distance Traveled around the Earth so far: 227,368,800 miles Earth’s Orbital Circumference: 574,380,431 miles Distance Traveled around the Sun so far: 5,245,242,095,892 miles (0.892 light years)

The World’s Oldest Person is Puerto Rican!

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

On the eve of my 25th birthday, my friends and family have pointed out that I’m hitting the quarter-century mark. A hundred years ago I’d be hitting my mid-life stride, but people are living a lot longer nowadays. With any luck I’ll live even longer than Emilian Mercado del Toro, the world’s oldest living person. [...]