http://www2.teamraymond.com Michael’s Raymond’s (El Raymundo's) stories and photos about wandering the Earth, life in suburbia, drinking good scotch, and La Raymunda, the love of his life. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:39:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "The researchers found one way such whirling matter could result is if a black hole plunged into a star and began eating it from the inside. As the black hole ripped the star apart, its remains could twirl apart in precisely the right way needed for a long gamma-ray burst." I ... http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=415 When Debra and I bought our first house, the one on Sugar Meadow Drive, the home inspector handed us a one-inch binder called "Your House, Your Home." "Your House, Your Home" is a 300 page volume outlining the care and feeding of a house. It covers everything from the structure ... http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=414 I surfed to a website called thefreedictionary.com because I was writing a smart-ass email making fun of a poorly written document and I wanted to make sure I remembered correctly that the word but is a conjunction, since it's usually a good idea to make sure your own house has no ... http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=413 I just had this conversation with John: Me: I'm reading the llama Learning PERL book and one of the first things it says is that PERL uses double-precision floating point blah blah blahs for internal computing. Do I care about that? Or is that information just there for people who really ... http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=412 Happy: a new iPod touch! The venerable iPod Photo finally gave up its ghost - and to my little white mp3 warrior I dedicate this snippet of lyrics: To the tune of Smoke on the Water The screen showed a bad icon Then died with an awful sound A funky sound was clicking on ... http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=411 I finally found a silver lining to our catastrophic year in California: the 44 cents we'll save by not sending Mike Woodward a Christmas card this year. http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=410 Dr. Sinister has returned to Government Building X!BWEEP! BWEEP! BWEEP!"May I have your attention please. May I have your attention please. We are conducting a test of the emergency fire alarm system. Please pay no attention to the young men running through the halls with dynamite strapped to their chests."BWEEP! ... http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=409 Two pics of La Raymunda in her brand new Mazda - it's a sweet ride! http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=408 And Apparently Beyond Good Grammar, Too - Hope, Arizona Exif: ISO 50; f/8 -⅔; 1/250 sec; 24mm 07.06.2009 ©Michael Raymond 2006 - 2009 http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=406 A thunderstorm rolled through this evening with lightning flashing and thunder rumbling and rain blattering against the windows. Debra asked me, "What was that sound?" and I told her it was the rain hitting the windows and the sides of the townhouse. Then she heard something else and asked what ... http://www2.teamraymond.com/?p=407