Archive - November, 2008

Snowboarding Adventure

26 November 2008 by Charles Hamel, 7 Comments
Snowboarding Adventure

My son and myself went on our first Snowboarding Adventure on a local mountain nearby the village that we live in.  The great thing about this hill, is that it is totally free and a nice gentle slope for beginners.  The day was great alternating between sun and snow with blue skies.  It was truly [...]

No Cockroaches

24 November 2008 by Charles Hamel, 1 Comment
No Cockroaches

palmetto-bug A new study recently done has proven that cockroaches can detect static electric fields with their antennae’s.  The antennae’s of cockroaches act like a persons hair when a balloon is rubbed on it, and are pulled towards the static field, which in turn signals the cockroach to avoid these fields. Scientists did not think [...]

A Great Birthday Card

20 November 2008 by Charles Hamel, 3 Comments

Had to share a Birthday Card that I received from my dad yesterday… So, anyway, I’m standing in line to buy you a freakin’ birthday card and the line is like seventeen billion people long. ’cause the only thing the dumb teenage boy at the register is thinking about is the dumb teenage girl at [...]

Scientists Successfully Clone Mammoth

12 November 2008 by Charles Hamel, 30 Comments
Scientists Successfully Clone Mammoth

mammoth This could very well be the next headline in all of the scientific journals.  Recently a Japanese team of scientists at the Riken Center for Development Biology successfully cloned a mouse with the DNA that was acquired from a mouse that had been dead and frozen for 16 years. This paves the road for cloning [...]

Marry a Japanese

10 November 2008 by Charles Hamel, 3 Comments
Marry a Japanese

marry-a-japanese Ever considered to marry a Japanese?  A recent Government Study was conducted on the subject of Japanese Nationals getting married with foreigners, and the results were shocking.  At least they were to me and probably to many of you also.  In a society that is for the most part pure, meaning not many mixed [...]