Author: Red Cross Cascades Region
LIDAR: Not a fortune teller machine in a movie.
So, Tom Hanks wasn’t involved in this project, for those of you who got my lame joke. Tools like LIDAR remind me of why I was a demography major in […]
Army Wives Lend A Hand
Believe it or not, this handsome guy is an army wife. Okay, maybe not EXACTLY. But Drew Fuller really does star on Lifetime’s Army Wives and he’s a nice guy […]
Let’s Talk Taxes
You may be just wrapping up your taxes for 2008, but I’m here to talk about taxes in the years ahead. Whether you worked with a professional or on your […]
Needles that help save lives…
A few weeks ago I got my very first tattoo at Infinity here in Portland. Traci (the tattoo artist) and I had about three hours to get to know each […]
“Twister” In Real Life
You’ve all seen Twister right? Where a team of stormchasers “attempts to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of some extremely violent tornadoes”? Well, this kind of […]
Volcanoes and Lightning: Together At Last
Every once in a while, we’ll just have so many super cool things to blog about that the slightly less interesting or slightly more time-consuming posts fall by the wayside. […]
Saving A Poodle Named Prince
If you saw this face, you’d do whatever you could to save his life, wouldn’t you? And what if that involved putting his entire snout in your mouth? Would you […]
Prepare-aphernalia: Forget Batteries, Use A Monkey!
Powermonkey, that is. I just discovered the Powermonkey Portable Charger. You can plug it in to charge it up, and then put it straight into your emergency kit because it […]
Prepare-aphernalia: Not Your Father’s Swiss Army Knife
This is being branded as the ultimate geek gadget – and I’m inclined to agree. With a USB flash drive (1GB, 2GB or 4GB), LED light, a ballpoint pen, AND all […]
Trivia Time! Guess how long. . .
A few months ago, Robin boggled all your brains with a blood trivia blog that asked you to guess the number of red blood cells in the human body. The […]