Category Archives: Other
Do You Know All of Your Grandparent’s Occupations?
If not, try to find out. If they are still alive, interview them! If they are deceased, it will be harder. Don’t be one of the 14%.
Are we the first humans to see a Mars sunset?
CALIFORNIA PASSES PROP 12, THE MOST PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE LAW IN NATION
Freedom is as freedom does.
VOTE YES ON 12
VOTE this year. And if you vote in California, help prevent cruelty to animals by voting YES ON 12.
4th S. Cafe & Bakery in Orland, CA
Once in a while, you come across a really good restaurant. When you do, it is important to let others know about it – share the wealth, as they say. Well, I ate at a really good “cafe” yesterday and have to give praise.
The 4th S. Cafe & Bakery in Orland, CA is a great place to eat breakfast or lunch. The food is good, there is lots of it. It is wholesome and healthy faire. Breakfast is served all day. The jelly was served in glass cups!
Orland is located on Interstate 5 about 90 miles north of Sacramento. A crow would fly due west from Chico! The address is 824 4th Street, Orland, CA 95963. From I-5 take the Newville Rd/Hwy. 32 exit. Head east about 1/2 mile and turn right on 4th Street. They are two blocks down on the right hand side, across from the Orland Post Office.
If you are driving on I-5 in central California in the morning hours and feel hungry, do take the time to find this great cafe. When we were there, a group of County Sheriff deputies were too. You know they know where the good eats are to be found!
I rate it 5/5 stars and I recommend the Veggie Lover’s Omelet! 
Mickey Mouse — Haunted House
Check out this cartoon in YouTube showing Mickey Mouse when he visits a Haunted House!
It is 6 minutes 48 seconds long and has sound! It was produced by Walt Disney Studios in 1929. Happy Halloween 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving
A record-breaking El Niño
The Nature Journal of 10 September 2015 Vol 525 Page 162 had a short note about this year’s El Niño.
A comparison of the El Niño weather pattern in 1997 and 2015 shows how the two had developed in a strikingly similar fashion by August in each of the years. Sea-surface temperature data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, shows each El Niño as a band of warmer-than-usual water (orange) along the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean — with added warmth to the north in 2015.
See the issue at link to article.
What impresses me even more than the band near the equator are the two orange/yellow spots near the west coast of North America. Those are called “the blob” in local news media. Since I live near the central California coast, we are well acquainted with the increased temperatures of the ocean this summer. It is really weird! Wikipedia discusses el blob in more detail here.
It would be nice if it rained a little bit every day from November through February, but I fear we’ll get dumped on in a few major storms, and then the drought will return.
“…Thunder and lightning. Enter three witches.” by Shakespeare, scene direction in Macbeth
23andMe Chip Info
v1 Nov 2007, not used in public
v2 Sept 2008, ~555K SNPs
v3 Nov 20 2010, >900K SNPS, can be uploaded to FTDNA for $39, only version uploadable to GEDMATCH
v4 Nov 2013, ~570K SNPS
The link www.23andme.com/you/compare/ can tell you how many SNPs you have in your dataset (this doesn’t seem to be accessible from any of the menus, as far as I can gather). If you go to the One-to-one tab and put yourself on both sides (or anyone you are sharing genomes with, if you want to help them), the number of SNPs is shown.
Family Tree Started
Family Tree by Fee Bee
Hello World
Just started! A general purpose, personal family, site, tending to personal opinions and family discussions. With a goal of recording opinions, sharing stories and exploring the world with granddaughters.
(◠‿◠) Jim
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