Posted in Humor, Technology on Apr 30th, 2007
I have been coerced into taking Moonlet to see a children’s cartoon called Meet the Robinsons no less than three times so far. It’s a pretty fun flick. Fast paced, quick dialogue. Almost too quick at times. There is however, one very pointed jab at the most recent cultural trend. Bear with me, the entire [...]
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Posted in People on Apr 29th, 2007
Not quite the space oddity just yet, Stephen Hawking took his first step yesterday. There are so many cool aspects to this situation I don’t even know where to start. So, I don’t think I will. This is just very cool, Stephen! I hope he gets there.
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Posted in SETI, The Universe on Apr 25th, 2007
This is very cool:
An Earth-like planet spotted outside our solar system is the first found that could support liquid water and harbor life, scientists announced today……
The new planet is about 50 percent bigger than Earth and about five times more massive. The new “super-Earth” is called Gliese 581 C, after its star, Gliese 581, [...]
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Saw this via Urban Legends:
You may have noticed that March of this year was particularly hot. As a matter of fact, I understand that it was the hottest March since the beginning ofthe last century. All of the trees were fully leafed out and legions of bugs and snakes were crawling around during a time in [...]
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Posted in Global Warming, Images on Apr 22nd, 2007
Moonlet and I took a ride on the Big South Fork Scenic Railway, again, yesterday. One of the stops along the way is beautiful Worley, Kentucky. Here’s some pics I took of Worley:
Now, Worley was a mining community that flourished primarily from 1928-1929 or so. Around 1932, a massive flood washed away almost everything that [...]
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Posted in Psychology on Apr 20th, 2007
Skip it. All it proves is he’s as crazy as he obviously was. It’s bad. It’s boring. It’s horribly written. What it did prove was there was something obviously wrong with Cho. I don’t think you can draw the conclusion he was dangerous from it. But, he was [...]
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Posted in Food and Drink, Health on Apr 10th, 2007
A while back I did a piece on the benefits of green tea. Now, as much as I tried, I just couldn’t enjoy the taste of green tea that much. So, I did the next best thing and started taking green tea extract [...]
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Posted in Global Warming on Apr 9th, 2007
I am also quite disgruntled with global warming. We got a surprise for tonight, the sixth consecutive night of either record tieing or record breaking colds. Six.
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Posted in Computers on Apr 9th, 2007
I got a crash course in Vista today. Bought an Emachine in the box with nothing telling me what was running on it. It was Vista. Now, I immediately ran into two critical problems. The old hard drive kept rebooting with the new machine, and the VPN driver ( Contivity ), [...]
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Posted in Global Warming on Apr 7th, 2007
Now, before I get the usual whiny response that global warming can cause anything, this is what I’m going on:
That’s called the hockeystick. What it did was set a lot of this current debate on global warming in motion a few years ago. What is says, without any doubt, is things are supposed [...]
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