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GG is a longtime skeptic and agnostic. She works as the VP of an energy company that specializes in natural gas processing technologies. She has also raised two good-looking skeptical sons. She blogs about nothing at www.twodifferentgirls.com

• Gone Hunting, or…Fred’s Dead, Baby, Fred’s Dead

  By Geek Goddess on May 30, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  This from a few years ago: A few days before the New Year’s weekend, I got a frantic call from one of my contractors. He had booked a hunting trip for another client at the CF Ranch  outside of Alpine,… Read More ›

• Doing Instanbul

  By Geek Goddess on May 28, 2012 • ( 11 )

  

  Last  year I took a Skeptours cruise with two dozen friends, around the Mediterranean. Our embarkation was from Istanbul. Istanbul has been on my bucket list for decades, and was a place that I never thought I would get to… Read More ›

• And We Are Off!

  By Geek Goddess on May 26, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Kitty and I are off on another adventure. We haven’t seen each other since last fall, so I’m looking forward to catching up and hearing all her stories about her visit to France and Switzerland earlier this month. We are… Read More ›

• Eating Bait

  By Geek Goddess on May 22, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  I like to call myself an adventurous eater, right up until I turn on an episode of Andrew Zimmern’s travel show “Bizarre Foods” and watch him scarf down sheep earlobes, or chunks of raw camel that’s been sitting unrefrigerated in… Read More ›

• Who Are Your Lifesavers?

  By Geek Goddess on May 20, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  All through life, we have people who help us. Being social, tribal creatures, living in a complex dangerous world, most of us cannot be 100% self-sufficient. We all have lifesavers. As a child, your lifesavers are your parental unit. Beyond… Read More ›

• An Amaz!ng Breakfast

  By Geek Goddess on May 17, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  I’ve been working14-hour days, if you don’t include the driving time, while commissioning a new processing plant in West Texas, for the past few weeks. Kitty is still on her European trip (I should mention here that those two activities… Read More ›

• Normandy – and How to Make the Best of Missed Plans

  By Geek Goddess on May 15, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Blood and Guts Tour Part 3 During our adventure to France, I decide to take Richard and Travis to Normandy, so that we could see Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery. I consulted brochures at the hotel, and found a… Read More ›

• Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

  By Geek Goddess on May 3, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Chaco Canyon, near Farmington, NM. During a business trip to the Four Corners area, and having several hours before needing to make our flight from Albuquerque, my friend and I made a stop at the national monument here. You come… Read More ›

• Debunking Pseudoscience with Otherwise Reasonable People

  By Geek Goddess on May 1, 2012 • ( 2 )

  I recently read Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? Debunking Pseudoscience by the late Martin Gardner. It is a collection of some essays from Skeptical Inquiry magazine, and was published in 1999; my paperback edition was updated with comments and addendum… Read More ›

• A Ghost Town that’s Not Quite Dead: Crappy Places to Be From

  By Geek Goddess on April 29, 2012 • ( 28 )

  

  Barstow, Texas is a town in West Texas, not far from the corner where New Mexico juts into the Permian Basin. The census sign at the city edge, from 2000, claims that there are 400 people living there, but I… Read More ›