Antonio!

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!

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. [...]

“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 story today about [...]

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)

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 [...]