Queenkv’s Brainpickings

It’s always a treat to visit Susan and Tom in San Francisco. This month, we explored some tasty food and some beautiful heart in Golden Gate Park.

First, we needed some fuel for our museum field trip. Susan picked up bacon donuts. Yum! Sweet, savory and filling.

We tried to visit the newly renovated California Academy [...]

Viva my weekend.
I’m taking it easy for these last days of being 29-years-old.

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Last month, we ended up in Lodi after the Stockton Asparagus Festival. An air-conditioned wine tasting at the Lodi Visitor’s Center helped revive us. The festival was fun but we were wiped out from walking through 100-degree weather and [...]

It’s been a loopy week so far.
We watched Discovery’s blast-off a couple of hours ago. I was quite tickled to watch CNN’s speedometer keep up with the shuttle’s mph. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Shuttle heads for space station

Space Shuttle Discovery has begun a 14-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), after a [...]

I saw this on Digg and I had to watch it for myself.

The Daily Background » Blog Archive » Video- “The Viewâ€? co-host doesn’t know if the world is round or flat. Good grief — I understand the need to take care of your children, but to use it as an excuse for ignorance? [...]

Typical. This story from the Topeka Capital Journal leads off with a sixteen yeard old who dreams about working on a science degree from Cal. She tells the reporter she knows the difference between science and religious theory. She said she’s worried Cal and other colleges will think she doesn’t know the difference.
Then we have [...]

LAWRENCE — I could not resist posting parts of this guide from www.kansasmorons.com. The guide also comes in a PDF file.
I remember how my biology teacher at a Catholic high school kicked off her section on evolution. She started with a disclaimer of sorts. She said she understood that she was teaching something that [...]

Mark sent me this quiz: The Belief-O-Matic. Some of it I agree with and some of it I don’t. In any event, it’s a quiz that will make you think. How do you think you will do?
“The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks [...]

Hey folks…my honey and I caught up with some silver screen hits in the last week or so. Typically, we try to hit the theaters on Birch Street (in Brea) in order to get a little buzz on before the film. I’ve timed movie trailers to take up to 15 minutes or so, after the [...]

It’s 1pm and I’m still in my DJ’s - I think I’ve hit a new all-time-low for being an un-employed slob. Wow. Typically, I’m up around 7 - my bladder is my alarm clock…then I’m skimming through Vogue or a book, while propped up on Mark, still sleeping. Then - by around 8:30 or so [...]

I woke up half-an-hour before the alarm…..Mark woke up shortly afterwards…
I rolled out my yoga mat and lit candles. But I felt a bit self-concious doing yoga in front of Mark…typically he’s asleep when I’m doing my yoga stuff….so…I did some cat poses and then child pose. Then I let out a refreshing yawn.
Then Mark [...]