For those of you who enjoy this sort of weather, the heat index yesterday was about 115 degrees. What’s a “Heat Index?” Well for those of you, like me, who really didn’t have a notion how the number is developed, I point you to the handy-dandy wikipedia entry on Heat Index. Pay close attention to …
Monthly Archives: August 2005
International Straits and You!
I heard a fascinating story this morning on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition concerning the (polite) dispute between Denmark and Canada over a tiny rock island in the Nares Strait between Greenland and Canada proper. The NPR story mentioned that with the retreat of polar ice, the Northwest Passage may start becoming navigable year-round. This …
WWFSMD?
As a continuing series of posts concerning Intelligent Design, I found this site via Bad Astronomy. Flying Spaghetti Monsterism is definitely the way to go for realizing the truth about life. I plan on getting one of their t-shirts for wearing at DragonCon ’05!
Moon Toursim
As posted in the NY Times, a company in Arlington, VA (the same responsible for sending two tourists thus far into orbit) has announced a $100 million price tag for a trip around the moon. Their website, spaceadventures.com, did not have any immediately available information as of this posting. Keep your eyes peeled.
Google Bombs Away for ID
It has come to may attention through the auspices of one of my favorite blogs, Bad Astronomy, that a number of sites are Google Bombing the phrase Intelligent Design. Normally, I would eschew such practices as they are low and mean and could be considered unethical, but this is in an excellent cause. So, a …
Lobstah Issues
The NY Times has an article today concerning Maine Lobster booms and busts off of Maine and Cape Cod, respectively.
Skydiving, a.k.a. "White Knuckle Flying"
This past Saturday was an interesting day for me. In celebration of my 20th birthday (I’m 1F until Tuesday), I decided to give myself the gift of leaping from an airplane. This was something that I had always wanted to do, at least once, before I croaked. Therefore, I made an appointment to take the …
Bush has Made me ANGRY!
In a lot of respects, I find myself the Bush-defender when I’m engaged in conversations with my generally-more-democratic friends. I defend his energy bill (a bit) and a lot of his foreign policy decisions, and lament generally on the state of politics. Then, however, he comes out with something so mind-boggingly stupid that I want …
The Atlanta Journal Constitution often has amusing movie reviews. I quote from their review of The Dukes of Hazzard: “More P.U. than Yee Haw.”
SAFETEA-LU
The U.S. House and Senate have passed the successor to the Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21), which is called the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). I want to know which set of congressional staffers sits around and comes up with the acronyms that we …