Dogs Are Amazing

It's no wonder dogs are referred to as "man's best friend" when you hear about something like this:

Dog Gets Posthumous Medal for Bravery

How awesome is that? There's clearly a lot more going on in a dog's mind than most people give them credit for. This little Jack Russell saw a problem developing and immediately stepped in to save the day, putting his own life at risk.

I like cats, don't get me wrong, but I don't think they'd do the same. If we were small enough, they'd eat us!

The Concept that's taking viral video by storm

Mentos + Diet Coke = Geyser

Never mind... We're staying public for now

Now that I sent out an invitation to read our newly-privatized blog, we've changed our minds and decided to keep it public and open to anybody. It's my fault. Well, actually it's Google's fault. I should have tested the Blogger.com "Invite" thingy on myself before sending one to you all. You see, it seems Google (who owns Blogger) makes the stipulation that you have to have a Gmail account to log in and read the blog for any longer than a 30-day period. Now, I'm a big fan of Google and Gmail, but we think this is quite lame and completely understand that a lot of you probably wouldn't want to go through the trouble of getting another email address.

So, please ignore that email from Blogger. As before, you will be able to read Project: Expatriated without logging in. Perhaps we'll look into getting a better blog host that doesn't require a specific email address. We'll see.

Anyway, sorry for the confusion!

We're Going Private

We've decided to make our blog "invitation-only" to keep it among friends and family only. This means that you will need to log in to access it. We will make this change on Sunday May 6th. When this happens, I will send "invitations" to everyone we can think of that has been known to read our blog. Please don't feel offended if you get left out, it may just be that the invitation didn't reach you (spam filters), we didn't have a current email address for you, didn't know you read our blog, or simply left you out by mistake. Just send an email to K or me and we will send you an invitation.

What's really going to send us to hell in a handbasket

As much as we're all rattling our sabers about global warming, when you read stories like this --> Honeybee die-off threatens food supply <-- it serves as a reminder of how delicately we are stitched into our ecosystem. Who would have seen something like this coming, for cryin' out loud? It will probably be something like this that wipes out the human race! Not melting ice, rising sea levels, greenhouse gases, cow farts, etc. It will be something as simple as a bee no longer pollinating the flowers that beget the foods that we eat. Call me a cynic if you want, but something tells me that we are at fault for the honeybee die-off just as we are to blame for every other cataclysm facing us. A virus killing off the bees? Yeah, the one and only "virus with shoes": people. You name it... on some level the human "race" is at fault.