Today is the two year anniversary of Pluto’s demotion from planet status. I had invited several people to contribute to this event. Chris Schierer has remarked that Pluto is really really small and is very very hard to see. Kim Bosco tells us how Pluto was found and why Kansas is key! Jim Cronen opines …
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Evil Eyebrow Comment and Moderation Policy
Photo Credits to Jhuebner I feel the need to post this because I want everyone to be very clear about my blog. This is my very own personal playground and I will run it anyway I damn well choose. That includes the current policy of placing every commenter1 into a queue for approval if they …
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I've Been Taken To Task
I posted on Friday about vaccines and my opinion of parents who don’t do use them. Ginger Taylor responded (and snarked at me for not approving her comment fast enough). She makes some points, to which I respond. I want to know what you, my regular readers, think. Am I being a mouthpiece for corporate …
Peachtree City Triathlon 2008
Tonight we head down to Peachtree City for the 2008 Tri-PTC race. It’s a sprint triathlon (~400 meter swim, 20 kilometer bike, 5 kilometer run) and this will be our second time doing it. This was my very first triathlon last September and I’m sorta looking forward to it. Unfortunately, with my calf strain I’ll …
House Cats
In the continuing series of random photographs, here is a picture of our bedroom before it was our bedroom. This image was on the house listing when we were shopping around for a home. The people we purchased our house from had 10 cats, 2 dogs, a bird and two rats. If you look closely …
Parents Continue to Kill Children
Unfounded fears about vaccination which are fueled by media networks who want to show “both sides” of a story without having an opinion themselves are causing the resurgence of measles and other childhood diseases. Parents fear that vaccination will give their children autism (untrue) or that they may develop serious side effects (rare1). At least, …
Fay
People don’t pay attention to the weather outside their immediate vicinity unless it’s a catastrophic incident that makes national/international news. Thus we have Tropical Storm Fay, which isn’t bothering me personally at the moment but sure is causing headaches for my neighbors to the south (although I used to live in one of the flooded …
Jenn Has a Mac (for a little while)
My wife rocks. Why does she rock, exactly? She rocks because she applied for, and was awarded, the iTunes University grant wherein she gets a Mac laptop for the semester and her students get iPods. It’s all in the name of education, though, because she will be using these tools to teach her students about …
Another Random Photo
This is the last of the random images tonight, I promise. In October of 2005, my friend John held a pumpkin chunkin’ contest at his home in Valley Falls, NY. The rules were basic: Construct a device that could accurately lob a smallish pumpkin to a target. No explosives, compressed air, internal combustion, or other …
My Caucasian-ness is Evident
I was digging through the archives of my digital pictures and decided to upload a sample of images that struck me. Some of them struck me quite hard. In case anyone doubted it, I come from a long line of white-men can’t dance. This picture was taken at the wedding of my good friends Jim …