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A magician and a Halloween iPad!

Posted by Benton on Oct 31, 2011 in Fascinating, Hard to Believe!, Real Life, Technology | 0 comments

This is pretty cool! When master magician Simon Pierro gets his hands on an iPad, watch out. Now he’s created a special Halloween edition of his unique iPad magic, blending his special brand of prestidigitation with carefully constructed digital wizardry. Simon says that he spent 10 weeks putting together this Halloween iPad act, and “it was a lot of...

Why I love the fall season in Middle Tennessee!

Posted by Benton on Oct 30, 2011 in Fascinating, Hard to Believe!, Real Life | 0 comments

A 35 degree, frosty crisp October 30th morning in Middle Tennessee as I return from an early workout. When many of my friends are not enjoying several inches of wet snow in the northeast this weekend, we have a peak fall sun-drenched morning here at home. How can you not love this? Happy Sunday everyone! This is the day that the Lord hath made and I will...

9/11! Still horrific to me!

Posted by Benton on Sep 10, 2011 in Hard to Believe!, Humanity, Real Life | 0 comments

I’m downstairs eating my breakfast. My wife was upstairs finishing getting ready. We’ll both be ready to head to our offices soon for a normal day of work. Turns out – everything about that September 11, 2001 day was extremely abnormal. I see and hear a shocked Matt Lauer on The Today Show utter the words with that deer in the...

I’ll never look at a paper clip the same way again!

Posted by Benton on Aug 27, 2011 in Family, Fascinating, Hard to Believe!, Humanity, Real Life | 0 comments

Prejudiced, hatred, biased, narrow-mindedness, racist, judgmental, opinionated! I either heard those words or they crossed my mind as I watched a movie last night that moved me. The movie – “Paper Clips” has been on my radar for several years and certainly was on my watch list but as is often the case, I hadn’t gotten around to...

40th Year High School Reunion = TIME WARP!

Posted by Benton on Aug 15, 2011 in Fascinating, Hard to Believe!, Real Life | 0 comments

Well it happened and it all ended way too quickly! When you attend one of these school reunions, you go with a sense of reluctance wondering what will this be like. I had some great relationships with folks in high school but I’m different now (and hopefully better after 40 years – geez!) than I was back then and I figured they probably were...

Google’s first self-driving car crashes!

Posted by Benton on Aug 9, 2011 in Fascinating, Hard to Believe!, Real Life, Technology | 0 comments

Have you heard about this thing? On the roads of Southern California is a car Google has developed that drives itself! By using a complicated configuration of lasers and other sensitive equipment, reportedly, Google has logged more than 140,000 with these prototypes without incident. But last week, they had their first accident – not a bad one but...