"All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame,  All are but ministers of Love,   And feed his sacred flame."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

 

(some) 
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of S. K. Smith
(a work in progress)

  

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Picture Attributions -
favorite things: EffervescentEva 
universe: 
rmforal
cats:  Sage29
art: 
danzo08

current:  len-k-a

rock,..:  winjohn

speeches:  dbking
crime: 
the_la

earth-moon:  nasa

 
    

  Current Concerns

Current gas prices 
(week of January 5, prices most places $1.66 per gallon.  Have we bottomed out?  - S. K. Smith)

Did you know?  (YouTube video)
(Shows exponential  progression of information technology.   Week of January 5,  over 354,000 views.  - S. K. Smith)

 
 

  The Universe

 

  Apollo 8 - 40th Anniversary  (YouTube video) 

(The Apollo 8 event is in my book "Samantha at the Crossroad" - S. K. Smith)
  Large Hadron Rap  (YouTube video) 
  ** Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider!  **

 (As of  January 5, almost 4.2 million  views - S. K. Smith
)

Power of Ten  (PowerPoint slideshow)
(We really are the center of the Universe ;0) - S. K. Smith)
  A Star is Born  (FoxNews.com)
(I worked on the Spitzer satellite, 2000 - 2002  - S. K. Smith)
 
  Dig pinpoints Stonehenge origins (BBC News)
(Stonehenge may have been an ancient healing center as well as a calendar to mark the solstices.)
   
   

 Cute Cats

(As you can see, I like cats ... - S. K. Smith)

  The Mean Kitty Song  (YouTube video)
(As of  January 5, the song had over 16.3  millions views - S. K. Smith)
An Engineer's Guide to Cats  (YouTube video)
(As of  Janaury 5, the video had over  3.0  millions views - S. K. Smith)
 Miracle Kitty  (FoxNews.com)
(Meet Edgar and the vet who saved her face - Sat, 13 Dec 2008)
 
 

  Great Speeches
Patton Speech  (YouTube video)
The Gettysburg Address (audio)
Sir Winston Churchill 
  -  Finest Hour
   (YouTube video)
   We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches ( YouTube video)
 Rudyard Kipling 
  -  IF
   (YouTube video)
 
 

  Crime and Punishment

(Crime is definitely not one of my favorite things, but some of the cases are fascinating  - S. K. Smith)

Zodiac Killer's Identity And Weapon Uncovered?  (cbs13.com)
(The Zodiac Killer case launched Clint Eastwood's character "Dirty Harry."  I will keep you posted if this is a hoax or if verified - S. K. Smith)
Jack the Ripper revealed at last—  (www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk)
(Jack the Ripper has fascinated people for 120 years.  "Jack the Ripper" even made an appearance on the original "Star Trek" - S. K. Smith)
1981 Murder of Son of America's Most Wanted Anchor John Walsh Is Solved  (foxnews.com)  
(Condolences to the Walsh family and all victims of such crimes - S. K. Smith)
 
 

  Art Works
"Mad" magazine fold-ins
  (Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form)
 
 
  Rock, Paper, Scissors
Print your own ruled paper
 
HotForWords (HotForWords.com)
(Writer's block?  Stuck on the meaning of words to put on paper?  Marina Orlova, a Russian philologist - specializing in word origins - gives English lessons on her web site and on YouTube - where she has almost 154 million views and counting.  She has appeared a few times on "The O'Reilly Factor.")