In a few days, the last American space shuttle will be launched.  An era will come to an end. But according to the NASA PR machine in USA Today, it ain’t over yet. The United States needs to cede its low-earth orbit missions, such as the space shuttle, to the private sector so it can free up resources to explore deep space, [NASA’s administrator and a former astronaut Charles F.] Bolden said. President Obama has directed NASA to work toward

I don’t know why only recently did people suddenly pay attention to geek girls. LA Times did a whole story about it the other day based on the nerdy ladies of television shows.  And now College Humor came out with this video, which is, by the way, pretty much the how my small talk at mixers or networking events usually goes… I’m not quite as geeky as this chick in the video here, mind you. I have girl friends who

I was introduced to Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training program originally at the mandatory safety overview for the Downtown LA high rise I was working at.  Essentially, they’ll teach you to be a trained individual to help your neighbors out in case of emergency where the first responders would not get to you right away.  If you want to do more, later on you can take more classes and join the volunteer force. The basic 24-hour course was being

I think it’s time we move the HmmFoodGood food blog to our real home here on OakMonster.com. Food.OakMonster.com is here, yo! We’ll be working on some graphics for the food page on here. And possibly update the blog over all as well. This whole limiting my television time seems to be working out. A little bit.

As always, Rude Cactus sent up his Delurk signal, and we all answer. It’s Delurking Day 2011, people. So show yourself, friends and readers. Kindly leave a comment below if you’re here today and join the many friends of Mister Cactus in exposing ourselves! To make it easier, perhaps I should let you chime in on a question. What’s your hidden talent? Here, I’ll go first. I can burp on command. Your turn!

First week of 2011 and the goals have gone mostly untouched. Alas. The first cold of 2011. The game changer. I made New Year’s Eve dinner of 40 clove garlic chicken to feed James and Aurora and her sister Lee.  I took pictures of everything as it would be my first post for HmmFoodGood for 2011 according to Goal #5.  We sipped some wine and hung out until 11:30 before Brandon and I shambled home before the drunks got back