Grounded Life Travel: Amtrak's 10 Best Train Routes And The 2 Worst

 

[VIDEO] A few surprises especially among the two worst.

The Cardinal is a train I was on briefly but only as a last minute means to get home. I've never traveled on it to get to either Washington, DC or New York where it finishes it's journey. Watch the video to see why they consider it the worst.

And then of course the best among the 10 best is the Floridian - which essentially replaced the Capitol Limited and is intended to be temporary. The Floridian is Chicago's Florida connection and before it entered service late last year when you leave Chicago you have to change trains in Washington, D.C. to take a train into Florida. As the couple above may say this is the perfect way to get down to a cruise that departs Florida.

And then they mention my favorite standby, the Southwest Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles.

For me, I like trains because I like the journey. And it's not often I get to ride through the southwestern United States and see the deserts, buttes, mountains, etc.

The Overview Effekt: Location of Deep Space 9 and other Sci-Fi stars

 

[VIDEO] I've gotten into space videos lately. For example: terraforming Mars, why is Venus so hot with high atmospheric pressure, or even exoplanets - that is those planets that orbits other stars outside of our own solar system.

However, the worlds that Star Trek visits or even the star where Babylon 5 is located (and yes the universes of Star Trek and Babylon 5 are totally different. Vulcan has their own star - 40 Eridani - which is known to us and of course we don't really know if Vulcan exists. Wolf 359 is a real star, not just the star where Starfleet suffered a massive defeat at the hands of the Borg.

Also Babylon 5 is located by a real star Epsilon Eridana. Also our closest star is Proxima Alpha Centauri and that was the setting for the film Avatar.

It's interesting to know some of these many stars that we see in sci-fi TV programs and movies are in fact real though whether or not they may be home to various fictional alien or humanoid extraterrestrial species is whole other issue.

Ascension Presents: Do Catholics Believe in 'Signs from the Dead'?

 

[VIDEO] This message is for those who have experienced grief from Father Mike Schmitz.

John Campea: Seven money principles he lives by

 

[VIDEO] The movie guy who often likes to talk about genre films - comic books, sci-fi, etc. - delves into a different topic which is managing your money. He's right about a lot of these principles.

Of course that said, don't take financial advice from anyone you don't feel comfortable with. Also your money situation is YOUR money situation. Everyone has their own situation.

Regardless live below your means, if you can't pay in cash you can't afford it, avoid debt at all costs. Those are the easy takeaways.

fpt: Theft, Death, and Steve Jobs

 

[VIDEO] The interesting story of how Steve Jobs, the late legendary Apple founder and CEO, handled the leak of an prototype electronic device which ultimately became the iPhone 4. Jobs didn't have great respect for tech bloggers and I'm sure it was a bit of a humiliation for this device to get leaked.

At about the 40 minute mark you find out how serious this story became - consider this a trigger warning.

Architectural Digest: Inside a Modern Moving Home On Railroad Tracks

 

[VIDEO] This house is located in the Pacific Northwest and it's very unique. A part of this house you can actually move on railroad tracks.

Not my thing but then again I like the design of the stationary home.

Time travel hoax

 

[VIDEO] While I have been on the internet since the 2000s or a tad earlier, this is the first time hearing about John Titor.

John Titor arrived in 2000 and disappeared by 2001. He made some predictions which came true, however, he gave himself some pretty good excuses for the fact that it either came true or why they didn't.

Also the theory of time travel is interesting. We seem to get descriptions of as opposed to going backwards in our time, we the time traveler could instead be traveling to parellel universes or alternate timelines as opposed to one timeline.