Category Archives: Current Events
Postcards from Mars
The first color images of Mars are back from the Mars rover Spirit. Wicked cool! Brings me back to the days when I dreamed of becoming an astronaut.
Nice Work Red Sox!
They didn’t make it to the World Series, but the Red Sox did a great job holding their own in a seven games against the Yankees in the ALCS. Way to go!
A little girl went to her second grade class one day and the teacher said “I’m a Yankees fan. Who else is a Yankees fan?
Let There Be Light
The northeastern United States is coming out of what is being called the worst blackout in history tonight. Although it is still unclear what happened, our country’s electric grid system showed its age yesterday as millions lost power from Boston to Detroit.
Most of Rochester was in the dark as a result of the blackout from about the start of the evening rush hour until sometime in the middle of the night, depending on where you were. I first noticed a problem at about 4:30 in the afternoon when the radio station that was playing in my office suddenly went off the air.