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Monthly Archives: July 2007
Reshelving Non-Scientific Books
gacked from Pharyngula Biologist Helping Bookstores has a quest. He reshelves books without a science theme to parts of the book store he feels appropriate. I’m of two minds about this. My first mind thinks that he’s right; Michael Behe does not belong in the science section any more than Harry Potter does. My other …
This Week in Traffic: 30 July 2007
Transportation Competitions The Engines Running Onload/Offload competitions were held at McChord Air Force Base in Washington last week. This involves Air Mobility Command ground forces unloading and reloading a cargo aircraft as quickly (and safely) as possible. This reminds me of the Truck Rodeo’s that TxDOT holds every year, where TxDOT maintenace staff compete to …
Scientology vs. The Weekly World News
This was gacked from SF Signal We are all in mourning for The Weekly World News, which will fold its pages soon. Bat Boy will no longer grace our supermarket shelves, and I, for one, will miss him. But, in case you’ve ever wondered which is weirder, The Weekly World News or the Cult of …
Favorite Photo of Last Week
The Nephews were in town, so we went to the aquarium. It’s tough taking pictures inside a dark room with lots of blue light coming out of the tanks, but you can get some cool silhouettes.
End of Drought?
I was going to apologize for not posting anything (barely) for about two weeks, but then I remembered that apologizing-for-not-posting is a total n00b thing to do. At least I thought I remembered, so I went looking for that half-forgotten “10 things not to do on blogs” posting I read many moons ago. While googling, …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (No Spoilers)
Friday last, Jenn and I waited in line to purchase the last book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The line and the party at our local Barnes & Noble were just as crazy as we expected. An arguably entertaining event were the two guys at the door who were …
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Broke My Rule
I broke my rule of avoiding all Harry Potter related news. It seemed safe enough, and it turned out to be horribly amusing predictions from someone who doesn’t take the Harry Potter universe very seriously. Definitely worth the read. The best quote from the whole article is this one, concerning killing off main characters at …
This Week in Traffic: 14 July 2007
Installation Piece Causes Traffic Collisions Is it art? Or is it a mess? What the Heck does this Say? I am not a Biologist, or a Neuroscientist, and therefore can not make heads nor tails of this abstract. Wow. Lots of big words. Deep Sea Tire Recovery Divers recover tires that were used to make …
"Why I Read Blogs" -or- "Wicked Stuff!"
I have a feedreader, appropriately named Feedreader, which serves up to me on a daily basis a stew of random stuff. Some of this is fluff, some is interesting, some is funny, some is crap, and some is so freaking cool, that I have to pass it along to you. The reason why I get …