http://www.thebookofnature.net Existence, Experience, & Lucubrations Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:38:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More news today about dwindling city newspapers. Ok. I'm not partial to newspapers. I do prefer the Web for my news. But as a local history librarian I harbor the concern that the loss of local papers does mean a loss to ... http://www.thebookofnature.net/?p=113 I just finished a wonderful book on how settlement in the United States has changed the wildlife landscape.  It's an older book published in 1999.  But with the wonders of book displays at the library I discovered it for the first time.  The book is The ... http://www.thebookofnature.net/?p=112 Kudos to Obama tonight! Infrastructure. Infrastructure. Infrastructure. I'm excited about investing in this. And, I'm willing to pay more taxes for it. I'm sorry Ms. Palin, but paying your share of taxes is patriotic. Of course, I don't make anything close to ... http://www.thebookofnature.net/?p=111 I can't believe it has been since February since I last posted. It was in March that I started spending a lot of time outside walking. I walked off about 30 pounds this spring and summer. I'm hoping to lose more, but ... http://www.thebookofnature.net/?p=110 On Martin Luther King Day I was downloading some photos I took when my HP Pavilion laptop took its last breath. It wasn't long before I figured out that the motherboard had died. It would cost about $400 to get a new one, ... http://www.thebookofnature.net/?p=108