ScienceBlogs contains a large number of useful, cogent, and entertaining blogs. One of them I was popping around on has a series of posts titled, So you want to be an Astrophysicist? Ahhh, where was the internet when I was in High School? Oh, yes. It was called DARPA and Prodigy and Bulletin Boards… These …
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Dragon*Con 2006
Wahhhhhh!!!!!! As you may notice from the categories tags, Dragon*Con was a multi-threaded, awesomely spectacular, ravingly cool, devastatingly delicious weekend. There’s so much to talk about, I’m not sure where to start. This will probably end up being a multiple posting. I’ll start by saying, I bought a new camera the week before Dragon*Con, and …
Media Assasiniation
It’s official. John Karr is guilty of the JonBenet Ramsey killing in 1996. I know this because the media is now addressing him as John Mark Karr. History shows that killers have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Arthur Herman Bremer, Carlos the Jackal, Mark David Chapman, James Earl Ray, …
Intelligent Smoking?
Doing my morning read of the NY Times headlines email, I noticed the following article, “A Warning on Hazards of Secondhand Smoke.” Inside this article is found, “I am here to say the debate is over: the science is clear,” Dr. Carmona said at a televised news conference… Whoah! Whoah! Science? Since when does science …
WWAD
What Would Aslan Do? This link has been sitting in my “to blog about” folder for a while. It neatly sums up my feelings concerning the media warriors and their interpretations of the facts surrounding us. I hate being lumped in with a group and then told what I think. The problem stems from the …
Rush to Vitamin V!
Rush Limbaugh was detained at Palm Beach International Airport for possessing Viagra without a prescription. Eh? I’m probably the second-to-last person on planet Freak to defend Rush Limbaugh (because he is a total nutjob), but this is a little over the top. What the heck is Homeland Security doing? Reading everyone’s prescription pill bottles to …
Moronic Self Loathing = "Treasure Hunt"
I just wasted 45 minutes of my life. Usually, I don’t mind pissing away the allotted time I have before death, but this time, I resent it right down to my toenails. We Tivo’d NBC’s Treasure Hunt (to which I refuse to hyperlink) this evening. We sat down and started up the Tivo and slowwwwly …
Prairie Home, Hurricanes, and Levi's Call
Messy title, for a messy post. Here goes… We saw A Prairie Home Companion on Friday. I confess that I had high expectations for this movie, given the character of the radio show from Minnesota Public Radio. We arrived a few minutes before show time and didn’t have any problem getting seats. Let’s just say …
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"This appears…"
If you’re not aware of the man who has been arrested and charged with murdering a young girl with plans to eat her, go to the link. In the linked article is this quote: “Regarding a potential motive,” Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said Saturday, “this appears to have been part of a plan to …
Flying Spaghetti Monster Runs Amok!
Kansas Board of Education member Connie Morris comes face to face with his noodly appendage and was not touched. All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster