Archive for the ‘Interesting Stuff’ category

Geocaching is cool!

February 16th, 2009

My husband and I discovered a new hobby today – geocaching. For those who haven’t heard of it, geocaching is basically a treasure hunt performed with a GPS unit. Geocachers hide a container with various items inside it in a specific location, note down the coordinates from their GPS unit and then post the location [...]

I saw this article today on Yahoo news. It’s about Macquarie Island, which is located southeast of Tasmania. The article talks about how Macquarie is a World Heritage site because it is a breeding ground for many species of birds, particularly endangered ones. Apparently there was a large population of feral cats which were feeding [...]

My husband and I bit the bullet last week and bought one of the new PSP 3000s. I originally wanted it to play Patapon (http://www.us.playstation.com/patapon/), a cute game with beautiful graphics where you direct your army of little eyeballs (known as Patapons) with drum beats. It’s sort of like playing Simon Says in a way. [...]

Here’s an article I just saw about a woman who got the military to think about the “human problem” (as it’s been expressed elsewhere) and re-adjust accordingly: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/09/controversial-a.html