On Tuesday morning this week, I learned that I wasn’t going to be at work on time. A strong, fast, thunderstorm blew through Georgia and my house was about 200 yards away from a particularly strong set of winds. Several homes in my neighborhood were damaged and three in the neighboring subdivision were playing host …
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Windstorm
We had an interesting morning today. At 6:30 AM we awoke to gust front of a storm. Actually, the gust front was the storm because we got barely any rain, but a significant number of lightning strikes plus some major down-bursts of wind. The neighborhood got hit pretty hard, with numerous trees down and several …
Sunshine
We finally got around to seeing the movie Sunshine”. In two words: It sucked. I wasted another two hours of my life on overblown trash. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie for 8 months and boy was I disappointed. The physics made no sense. The spaceship made no sense. The mission (even though …
McDonald's and Science
Apparently, they’ve not fixed their problem. A ways back, I noted that there was a bit of a science issue with the Happy Meal Container. Now, Milowent has made the same observation.
Best Quote Since the Last One
John Scalzi has hammered it deep: I’m feeling a little bit sorry for Hillary Clinton recently, because her campaign is caught up in an event it truly can’t control: the messianic fervor surrounding Obama. Clinton’s been trying to go negative on the guy, and it’s not working, because people literally just do not want to …
Robo Cop in Atlanta
Read this. Hmmmm… I question the legality of using a remote controlled robot to spray people with water who might be violating the law.
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Children of Men: The Movie!
This is such an old draft, I’m not sure why I never finished it. I watched this movie in October. Alert readers may recall that I read the P.D. James novel, Children of Men, last summer. I didn’t like it. See the link for why. Now, I’ve finally gotten around to watching the Movie that …
Email Spam
I just received some email spam. The subject line was “New Job! Jargonizing!” I want a job where all I do is “jargonize.” It sounds like fun.
Religious Uncleanliness
I’m all for religious tolerance, at least as long as the religion in question isn’t trying to impose it’s crazy beliefs on others, but there are limits. Say, the proscription from becoming sterile before operating on an open torso. Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in …