My Immortal Beloved

To the best thing that's ever happened to me. Thank you for brightening my horizons & coloring my life with your amazing sunshine & bestowing your magical rainbow upon me & make me believe, that after all, not all "good" guys finish last!

Sorry Everyone, But It's ALL Good :)

Sorry everyone for staying away for so long. I've missed you all too  Don't worry, it's ALL good :)

I apologize to everyone for not answering any comments or not updating my blog. I’ve been very busy lately, but will soon return to “normal hopefully” ASAP ;)

I've got a lot to tell you (mini vacation) & I’ve got a lot of nice pictures to share! :)

* Huntington Library & Botanical Garden (San Marino, near Pasadena in Southern California – an awesome place to visit for a day or more) in San Marino.

* * The Getty Museum (Los Angeles County: Southern California) Soon to go. It’s an absolute must see (even several times!) Actually these are pictures from a while back!
I apologize to everyone for not answering any comments or not updating my blog. I’ve been very busy lately, but will soon return to “normal hopefully” ASAP ;)

* Also, I have bought myself BUNCH OF new stocks in the past week or so… (Day Trading a few excellent solid companies, as a hobby of mine when I’m really bored or adventurous with my money.)

And, last but not least, a new wonderfull person in my life!!! (YES!)

Bijan aka: SocalPersian

33rd Annual Long Beach Grand Prix

Event Schedule link

Long beach goes vroom! The 33rd annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, to steal a phrase from the LA times.
Long Beach Grand Prix, this weekend, will include fast cars, music, celebrities, and many festivities. Just couldn’t help not mentioning this. I’m very excited. I have gone once before (shame on me) and am going this weekend. You must see/hear this and be there for yourself, even if you are not a speed manic! The thrill, the roar of the engines, quickness and the fast pace they go by is just awesome.

This is a 3-4 day event, so there are practice runs and demos and shows and several other races. For example the pro/celebrity race on Saturday will obviously include many celebrities and “Mr. Hugh Hefner” as the Grand Marshal. The “Star Wars” creator George Lucas as will be the grand marshal of the main event on Sunday. There is a lot of fun things going on at the same time to totally entertain you for next three days here.


Lowe’s Fernandez “at home” in Long Beach read the story here.

LONG BEACH, Apr. 12, 2007 - (KABC-TV) - Race enthusiasts, get ready: The 33rd Annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach runs this weekend!

Iran's & France's Nuclear Programs

Such a coincident on the timing of these two reports, both regarding nuclear power. First one is about Frances pursuit of more nuclear energy to produce electricity power and Iran’s announcement the following day.


CBS’s 60 Minutes program last Sunday (April 8, 2007) was an informative coverage of France's new peaceful nuclear ambitions and major change in directions. It addressed the global warming issue and their steps towards more nuclear power stations than ever before. It covers the French nuclear story, the (green) environmental issues, the new proposed scientific on going research to convert the nuclear waste to reusable nuclear material, and finally the US under ground storage site and capacity issue.

Both stories follows:


Iran Says It's Able To Make Nuclear Fuel.
Iran Says It Is Now Able To Produce Nuclear Fuel On An 'Industrial Scale'

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel "on an industrial scale."
(AP) Iran announced Monday (April 9, 2007) (AP) Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, a dramatic expansion of a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West.

Yahoo’s same coverage today (April 9, 2007) NATANZ, Iran - Iran announced a dramatic expansion of uranium enrichment Monday, saying it has begun operating 3,000 centrifuges — nearly 10 times the previously known number — in defiance of U.N. demands it halt its nuclear program or face increased sanctions. (Play the Video)
Iran to West: Do Not Stop Nuclear Push Iran announces an expanded nuclear enrichment program, defying U.N. sanctions and drawing ire from Western nations. Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for a nuclear reactor or material for a nuclear warhead. (April 9, 2007)

But here is where the story gets very interesting. I love the timing of CBS program on Sunday, April 8 2007, regarding Frances state of nuclear industry. This is very interesting. How come it’s okay for France, but not appropriate for Iran? What are we going to do when we run out of oil? This is a good argument for Iran’s position on this issue, but I’m not it’s worth the penalties, sanctions, and isolation Iran is going to face, if we continue on the same path. West (perhaps even the Chinese) don’t trust us with the nukes, even peaceful nukes!

France: Vive Les Nukes Steve Kroft On How France Is Becoming The Model For Nuclear Energy Generation, Sunday April 8, 2007,on 60 Minutes program coverage of French Nuclear industry:


(CBS) With power demands rising and concerns over global warming increasing, what the world needs now is an efficient means of producing large amounts of carbon free energy. One of the few available options is nuclear, a technology whose time seemed to come and go and may now be coming again.

For the first time in decades, new nuclear plants are being built, and not just in Iran and North Korea. With zero green house gas emissions, the U.S. government, public utilities and even some environmental groups are taking a second look at nuclear power.

And as correspondent Steve Kroft reports, one of the first the places they are looking is to France, where it has been a resounding success and the attitude is "Vive Les Nukes."
When much of the world spurned nuclear power, 30 years ago, the French, being French, decided to go their own way and embrace it. Paris, the "City of Light," is lit by nuclear energy, which powers just about everything else in France: its homes, its factories, even its high speed railroads.

Nearly 80 percent of the country's electricity comes from 58 nuclear power plants, crammed into a country the size of Texas. Pierre Gadonniex, the head "Electricite de France," the country’s national utility says it all began with a French obsession for energy independence.

"In France, we have nearly no coal. We have no oil. So clearly, nuclear appeared to be the best way," Gadonniex explains. "And 30 years later, it appears to be a very smart decision."

Because nuclear plants emit no greenhouse gases, France has the cleanest air in the industrialized world, and because the price of oil is now around $60 a barrel, it has the lowest electric bills in Europe. In fact, France has so much cheap electricity, it exports it to its European neighbors. French nuclear plants supply power to parts of Germany, Italy and help light the city of London.

"It is a very competitive way of producing electricity when oil prices are beyond, I would say, around $40 a barrel," Gadonniex tells Kroft.

And the rest of the world has taken notice. Nearly a dozen countries, including the United States, are either building or planning to build new nuclear plants, and some of that business will go to AREVA, the French government monopoly that controls every step of its nuclear industry from uranium mining to plant design construction to radioactive waste disposal.

Deep in the wine country of Burgundy, in a massive factory, AREVA is building the first European reactors since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Bertrande Durrande, the Executive Vice President for Manufacturing, tells Kroft the business is "definitely growing."

Besides the new reactors it is building for France and Finland, Durrande says, AREVA is bidding on a project to build four new nuclear reactors in China.

Asked how many plants he thinks might be built in the next 20 years, Durrande says, "A minimum of 20. Which is quite a change when you compare it to the past."

And some of them will almost certainly be in the United States, which hasn't built a new nuclear plant since the 1970's. With energy prices and global temperatures near their reported highs, and the possibility that greenhouse gases will be regulated, the Bush administration is pushing a nuclear revival.

In many respects, the nuclear industry in the United States has disappeared. Over 100 plants were cancelled in the 1970's.

Kroft talked to Clay Sell, the Deputy Secretary of Energy and the administration's point man on nuclear power. With world energy demand expected to rise 50 percent over the next 25 years, he says it is the only practical option for producing huge amounts of electricity with no carbon emissions.

"No serious person can look at the challenge of greenhouse gases and climate change and not come to the conclusion that nuclear power has to play a significant and growing role in meeting that challenge worldwide," Sell says.

Asked how much interest there is right now in building new plants, Sell says, "There is a tremendous amount of interest. Two years ago there was exactly zero plants on the drawing boards here in the United States. Today, there are about 15 companies talking about building over 30 commercial nuclear power reactors. Now, all of those won't get built. But we think there's a significant chance that many of them will be built."

But so far, no one has signed up to actually build one, an undertaking that requires a huge investment of capital and a certain amount of faith. In the 1980's and 90's political opposition, regulatory delays, cost overruns, and a drop in electricity demand forced utilities to pull the plug on dozens of projects, and the industry has a long memory.

"I recall one story, a man who is a CEO today of one of our leading companies," Sell says, "And he described the pain associated with beginning what he thought would be a billion-dollar plant in the 1970's, and bringing it online as a $9 billion plant 20 years later. And he made the point to me that that is not a lesson that'll quickly be forgotten in the industry."

France is expanding and moving more towards nuclear power, so should we. It’s more economical, it’s more environmentally Green (no CO2 emissions). Wait, I’ll explain what I mean. You are worried about the nuclear waste? Well, French have utilized new scientific processes that reuse their nuclear waste and reduce the expensive and expansive US problem with its nuclear waste storage and danger to the environment. Actually US is behind schedule on creating it’s under ground nuclear waste storage site (many miles under the ground and many a mountain) and it has already exceeded the capacity of the site that not quiet ready yet. Scientist have proposed and are working on even more safer and more reusable options available to safely transform the nuclear waste to something recyclable and reusable. Obviously, it should be very clear that I’m no physicist or nuclear power expert. I’m just reporting (although I’m not a reporter either) what’s available through responsible and creditable media news, information, and other wise available to general public (like moi)

Here is the rest of CBS 60 minutes’ program aired on Sunday April 8, 2007:
Read the rest here.

Iran Expands Uranium Enrichment Iran Announces Expanded Uranium Enrichment Program, In Defiance Of U.N. Sanctions.

(AP) Iran announced Monday that it has begun enriching uranium with 3,000 centrifuges, defiantly expanding a nuclear program that has drawn U.N. sanctions and condemnation from the West.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a ceremony at the enrichment facility at Natanz that Iran was now capable of enriching nuclear fuel "on an industrial scale."

Asked if Iran has begun injecting uranium gas into 3,000 centrifuges for enrichment, top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani replied, "Yes." He did not elaborate, but it was the first confirmation that Iran had installed the larger set of centrifuges after months of saying it intends to do so. Until now, Iran was only known to have 328 centrifuges operating.

Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for a nuclear reactor or the material for a nuclear warhead. The United States and its allies accuse Iran of intending to produce weapons, a charge the country denies.

Sean McCormack, the State Department spokesman, said the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. nuclear watchdog group "don't believe Iran's assurances that their (nuclear) program is peaceful in nature."

The White House also criticized the announcment.

"Iran continues to defy the international community and further isolate itself by expanding its nuclear program, rather than suspending uranium enrichment," said Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council.

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, had no immediate comment on Monday's announcement.

The United Nations has vowed to ratchet up sanctions as long as Iran refuses to suspend enrichment. The Security Council first imposed limited sanctions in December, then increased them slightly last month and has set a new deadline of late May.

"What we are looking for are reasonable Iranian leaders who view the cost-benefit calculation and see that it is not to the benefit of the Iranian people to continue to pursue the course on which they find themselves," McCormack said.

Michael Levi, a fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, was skeptical of the Iranian claims. He said by his calculations, the capabilities Iran has just announced would provide 10 percent of the material needed to run its plant.

"To me, that's not industrial scale," Levi said. "An industrial-scale facility is a facility that can support your industry."

On the other hand, "from a political perspective, it's more important to have them in place than to have them run properly," he explained since the announcement stirs up support and patriotism at home, and the international community has almost no way to verify how well the program is working.

"Iran looks to be moving its nuclear program along on a political schedule rather than a technical schedule," Levi said.

Levi marveled that Iran has the power to cause such a stir with an announcement. He noted that most of the time, world leaders complain they can't trust Iran, "except when they say something really scary, we take them at their word."

In his speech, Ahmadinejad insisted Iran has been cooperative with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, allowing it inspections of its facilities, but he warned, "Don't do something that will make this great nation reconsider its policies" in a reference to the threat of increased U.N. sanctions.

"With great honor, I declare that as of today our dear country has joined the nuclear club of nations and can produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale," Ahmadinejad said.

Larijani said his country was willing to offer assurances that its program is peaceful. But he said the West must accept its nuclear program as a fact: "We do not give in our rights."

On April 9, 2006, Iran announced it had first enriched uranium using an array of 164 centrifuges.

Across Iran, school bells rang on Monday to mark the "national day of nuclear energy." The overnment sent out text messages of congratulations for the occasion to millions of mobile phone users.


In Tehran, some 200 students formed a human chain at Iran's Atomic Energy Organization while chanting "death to America" and "death to Britain." The students burnt flags of the U.S. and Britain.

Experts say the Natanz plant needs between 50,000 to 60,000 centrifuges to consistently produce fuel for a reactor or build a warhead.

In the enrichment process, uranium gas is pumped into a "cascade" of thousands of centrifuges, which spin the gas at supersonic speeds to purify it. Uranium enriched to a low level, at least 3 percent, can be used as fuel, while at a far higher level, more than 90 percent, it can be used to build a weapon.

Also Monday, Iranian state television reported that an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who is under travel restrictions urged by the sanctions visited Russia without any difficulty.

Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, who is also deputy interior minister for security affairs, was quoted on the state TV Web site as saying that his six-day journey to Moscow, which ended Monday, showed "the ineffectiveness of the resolution."

The resolution urges all governments to ban visits by the 15 individuals and says that should such visits occur _ presumably for exceptional circumstances _ the countries should notify a U.N. committee.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Krivtsov confirmed that Zolqadr visited Russia. He told The Associated Press that the resolution does not prohibit visits by the listed individuals, but calls for heightened vigilance "directed first of all at people who are directly related to nuclear programs" _ suggesting that Zolqadr was not.

Tensions are also high between Iran and the West following the 13-day detention of 15 British sailors by Iran. The sailors, who were seized by Revolutionary Guards off the Iraqi coast, were released on Wednesday, but since then have said they were put under psychological pressure by their captors to force them to "confess" to being in Iranian waters when captured, angering many in Britain.
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AP writer Nasser Karimi in Tehran contributed to this report.

I guess everyone else is changing their thinking. Germans are very interested too, according to this site: New pro-nuclear sentiment in Germany

In the spirit of copyrights law and protection of intellectual property, I shall give credit to the sources where I got most of this material from. The majority of these reports come from CBS, AP, & Yahoo intermingled with my comments (mostly within block quotes.)

Oh My God!

Opposing view on existance of God, how can I argue with either one?
A Geneticist atheist turned evangelical Christian and a Biologist turned Atheist. I tend to agree with the later.


Part I of the discussion:

NPR Fresh Air Interviews:
Richard Dawkins Explains 'The God Delusion'
2007 • In his most recent book, British scientist Richard Dawkins writes about the irrationality of a belief in God, examines God in all his forms and sets down his arguments for atheism. The book is The God Delusion.
Dawkins is a professor of "the public understanding of science" at Oxford University

Selfish Gene:



Part II of the discussion:


NPR Fresh Air Interviews: Francis Collins on 'The Language of God'
Geneticist Francis Collins is director of the National Human Genome Research Project. He is also an evangelical Christian, and author of the book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.

Dole Bananas - Jokes - Policitcs of Divide & Canquer

Dole Bananas: Most Persians in Iran pronounce it like “dool” as in “fool.”

Sexy and still around! I know some people will get a kick out of this and brings them fun memories! For myself, I stopped being amazed by this kind of jokes. They don’t appeal to my sense of humor any longer. Either I’ve become older or boring or both. We have a poker game once in a while and some of the guys always tell jokes about somebody’s accent or heritage (Turkie, Rashti, Esfahani, Jewish, & etc.) I know they even go further and substitute Turks for Polish, Isfahani for Irish or Jewish, and Ghazvini for Greeks.
Dole – My older blog reference to Pines in Persian
Shirin’s memorable encounter with Banana in Iran. A very interesting an funny story indeed.

And just to be clear, I don't want this to sound like an obsession of mine, so I will not mention bananas or anything having to do with male or female genitalia again.

Click the picture to enlarge so you can read the caption (joke!)

On Mixing Jokes and Politics
Although I may laugh at some, deep inside I find it disrespectful and perhaps divisive. I wonder if I could blame that on the English as well. I mean why do we pick on each other and have a laugh at the expense of another? Did someone plant the seeds of divisiveness among us to encourage discord and animosity between us? That good old theory of divide and conquer!


Divide and Conquer: Noam Chomsky’s Interview

Divide et impera: Latin term for Divide & Rule in politics, sociology and economics, a strategy to gain or maintain power or an Algorithm in Computer Science
This is just interesting to me and I like the painting too.
Divide and Conquer: The Lord prayed that His people in this world would be one.

Allah Akbar – God is great!

Allah Akbar – God is great! That may be so, but where the hell is he? How long is he going to condone this?
Iranian Women Activists Gain Momentum All Things Considered, March 17, 2007, from NPR.ORG: Iranian women demonstration for Women’s Rights

Authorities Refused Women Demonstrations
Women Demonstrations Stopped!
March in Europe Demands Abolition of Anti-Women Laws in Iran
As Elections Near, Iranian Women Stage Protest (June 13, 2005).
Imprisoned Iranian activist denounces the crocodile tears of sympathizers!

On and on and on... Year after year after year... Are they signing to deaf ears? You go girl!

Star Wars fete in L.A.

Star Wars


Lucasfilm Ltd. has chosen L.A. for the 30th anniversary celebration of the release of "Star Wars."
The company will take over the L.A. Convention Center May 23 through 28 for a wide range of events, including back-to-back screening of all six or the space adventures.

The event is dubbed "Celebration IV," because officially sanctioned “Star Wars” conventions have been held in Denver (1999) and Indianapolis (2002 and 2005).

The 17-hour movie marathon begins at 9AM May 23 and will mark the first time in US that all six of the films have been shown in sequence.

May 24 is reserved for official "Star Wars" Fan Club members. Then the convention has its official opening May 25, the anniversary date of the first film's release.

Among events planed during the convention are appearances by Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), a presentation of Charles Ross' "One-Man Star Wars" stage show, "Start Wars" laser tag, "Stormtroopers Olympic" and "XXtreme Droid Challenge."

Tickets to the movie marathon are free to the people who pre-register to attend "Celebration IV" at http://registration.gencon.com/celebration/. For more information, go to www.starwars.com/celebration.

Also getting in on the anniversary celebration is the Postal Services, which announced Thursday that it will be wrapping about 400 mail collection boxes in 200 cities with special covering to look like R2-D2 as promotion for the new stamp to be announced March 28.

See Starwars.com or Star Wars Wikipidia for a more detail information.

Belated Happy PI Day

Pi, or π, is the mathematical constant equal to a circle's circumference divided by its diameter.


Belated Happy Pi Day!

How could I forget it? PI is approximately 3.14, which kind of coincide with Mar 14 (as in 03/14/07.)

Read about PI day here. This is actually interesting (i.e., Albert Einstein’s birthday is also March 14). So read on.

Check out Pi Day Song and if you "fancy," just Google PI for more links and "stuff."

More Related Links

And another person dear to my heart, Feynam Point, as in Richard Feynman.

The New Movie "300", A Call For War or 300...Kittens

300 The Site

I would like to list a recent article written by one of my friends, Mehr “Jay” Shaidi. Jay has been very active in local and global politics in the past decades from his base in Minnesota. He has been active in many fronts from his early Student Activist days as the head of Iranian-American Society of Minnesota, to his activities and involvements with Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth (MITY), Citizens for Global Solutions, American Refugee Committee, International Student Services, Amnesty International USA, Land Mine Committee of the United Nations Association, and many other organizations, just to name a few. If you Google “Jay Shahidi”, you will see the number of organizations, and many lectures and other volunteer activities he has been involved with over the years. He's also a board member of several organizations. With Running two successful businesses, I wonder where he finds the time.

I am very honored to have him as a friend. Although I have a great appreciation and respect for him, I don’t quite share all his views on this subject, but I’m compelled to support him and list his article here. My initial response was the same, but I don’t quite see it that way. Although I won’t put this propoganda pass the current administration, I fail to see a deliberate act between Hollywood and the warmongers in Washington. I also give the American people much more credit. Please judge for yourself. Here is his article:


The New Movie "300", A Call For War

Though a masterful production, "300" is a slick, conniving and equally masterful attempt on character assassination. Filled with historical inaccuracies, the movie is deftly intended to portray the Persians, today's Iranians, as barbaric monsters even when, by 480 B.C., they had formed “the first true empire before that of Rome," according to P.R.S. Moorey of Oxford University. This distorted plot justifies mythology as history and fiction as fact. It is crafty intended to brainwash the audience.
Yes, Hollywood has always taken advantage of public mood of the time to make profit. The desire for monetary reward is fine but malicious intent is another. This flick is clearly designed to sway the young Westerners into warfare against Iran at a time war hawks are feverishly lobbying for military attack on Iran. It might as well be a promotional video for Neo-Cons. It glorifies militarism and bloodletting as great virtues while depicting the Persians of 2500 years ago as the "Dark Force". It implies that the Persians of today are equally devious.
Firstly, the Persian royalty and military commanders of that era were Aryan and white, of the same stock as the Spartans, Macedonians and Greeks. When Cyrus founded the Persian Empire in 559 B.C., he established the first official code of human and civil rights. The kingdoms of the Empire were mandated to allow religious and racial freedom. After conquering Babylon, Cyrus's first official act was to free the Jews from bondage. Persian monarchs of his dynasty never claimed divinity. This film is an insult to the non-white people of the world (the entire Persian army is black). It is a malicious attempt to influence specially the younger male viewers into embracing warfare as a way of life (the theater was full of teenagers). It clearly pounds on you the notion that white European is superior to others.


300…Kittens, is another informative and interesting take on this from one of my favorites, PhDiav, the conservative American archeologist, Dorothy King in UK. There is also an interesting video of the “300” with added "stuff."


Related Links:
Hollywood Propaganda
A Nintendo view on 300!

Persian Fallacy n+1

Persian Fallacy #n+1
Don’t sit too close to the TV, you’ll go blind!

Result: I have tried this many times and for many long hours at times with or without adult supervision (I didn’t have to share that.) I have sat in front of a TV set or a computer monitor as close as few feet (36-50 centimeters) to several feet (3-5 meters range.) I have not found that it has affected me in anyway (obvious) over the years. The only noticeable change over the years is the growth of love handles, increase weight gain, and an affection to food specially poop corn and beer during sporting event, love for huge sums of ice cream during romantic or depressing movies or just over consumption of meals with little activities during the activity (programs or shows). It is also commonly observed that one would greatly get hooked on lazy man chair or in my case a comfortable couch with a number of hi-fi or TV remote controls or game controllers.

ADHD is very common with the male subjects and easily noticeable by frequent channel surfing and multi-tasking. Tivo and other recorders have helped with eventual completion and full view of many programs. This condition has been greatly masked, ignored and remedied with the introduction of Netflix rented or purchased DVD’s and the ability to rewind or restart at a certain screen chapter selection quickly. Some subjects have been observed to engage in many activities simultaneously. For example eating, drinking, answering or making phone calls, emailing, IM, blugging, or surfing the internet, listening to pod casts, playing MP3 files, surfing porn sites, gambling, or playing an online game and still functioning at an acceptable rate of accomplishment. Girl friends or significant others are thoroughly annoyed by these habits, but most have been able to work through their problems or engaging in a number of brown nosing and make up activities involving anything from chocolate, romantic dinners, weekend/short trips to exotic places, or even jewelry briberies.

No break up or divorce has been directly attributed to these activities, unless the subject was an AH to begin with or some have been known to lose their jobs for engaging in much of the same at work and not having a clue why they were let go to begin with.

Please feel free to share your own experiences with me.

Disclaimer:

These fallacies are not restricted just to Iranians, but I just like to take credit for them here first.
Most of these fallacies have been proved wrong by the author or professional stunt people under supervision of other adults in a controlled environment and under extreme considerations for safety of everyone involved and even the bystanders. You should not try these at home and I do not recommend these activities by non-professional stunt people. Be safe and would the force be with you.

Cheese Web Cams

Life is a Cheese!
I had heard of all many girls trying their fortunes in front of Web Cam, but a cheese modeling in front of camera all day 24/7/365! Well I’ve found one. I love cheese, many types and in many forms and especially with crackers and a cold glass of beer (or wine for those wine lovers.)


NPR Radio is where I first learned about this cheese story. You can listen here to the short story Diversion: Cold Toes, Old Cheese, or jump ahead to the link directly to the Web Cam at Cheddar Vision.Tv, to watch a big hunk of cheddar cheese mature in front of your eyes. The best time to watch is around 10AM (local time), when the cheese is turned once a day. You can also learn a lot about the farm in the UK and enjoy other related stories. In addition here is a testimonial on My Space. This cheese even has a My Space site. Isn’t that cool or wacky a bit? About me:

I am a West Country Farmhouse Cheddar cheese, handmade down on a farm in Somerset by one of a small group of artisan cheesemakers. I now have my own website at www.cheddarvision.tv where you can watch me mature 24/7! You can even download a bespoke screensaver of me from my webcam accurate to the very second. I love grapes, oat biscuits, strawberries and even prunes. I live in a cheese store in Somerset and am enjoying my moment in the limelight. I’m looked after by Tom (you can see his photo in the pics section). I will be graded to check I’m growing up to be deliciously tasty in March, June and September. Log on and check this out if you want to learn something new! Spread the cheese love and become my friend!

I also like to mention a favorite of mine in U.S.
Tillamoock Cheese in Portland Oregon where you can also learn about the nutritions, vitamins, allergens, gluten free, hormone free cow milk and details like that.


BTW, I feel your pain! I’m a little Lactose Intolerant myself. But I’ve found these pills, called Lactaid, that I usually carry a few with me, and I just pop one up before a glass of milk, pizza, or just any food with lots of cheese and that takes care of it.

Last, but not least, our beloved Feta Cheese