Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The… Read more →
Day: May 10, 2006
46% of Americans “not too bright”
So, just to review: Adminstration fabricates evidence and knowingly misleads the country into a way: OK Administration tramples civil rights several ways: That’s fine Administration’s crazy war kills 1000s of Americans and 1000000s of brown people: No problem Supposedly ‘conservative’ Administration cuts taxes and raises spending to result in record deficits even though they started with record surplus: Sure Administration… Read more →
I am an uncle!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Ryan James Turnbull, Day One: (Have I mentioned how much I love living in the future? He’s around 2000km from here, but we can see him immediately. Awesome.) Read more →
Professor Membrane’s Science Roundup
I really love the idea that Titan has seas of sand. It’s so ‘pulp science fiction’. You can totally imagine some John Carter analogue, riding some kind of beast adapted to the thicker atmosphere and lower gravity (not to mention temperature!) across the dunes of Titan’s Sea of Shifting Sands. Yay also for the fact that Titan’s winds are apparently… Read more →
