14th
February
2019
Another conspiracy theory: the upcoming problem with certain
GPS receivers is a scheme to keep me close to home. I happened across an
article today, which points out that the there’s a date approaching (April 09.
2019) where the “week rollover” might not happen. For devices with older
firmware, the 1024th week is like a reset. Some of us will come away
with our virtual north intact. Others: if you see a friend driving in aimless circles,
intervene.
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27th
July
2018
Turns out, my worry was just that. We swapped out some fuses, and the whole waste evacuation system in the RV works as it should. Now if I could only locate my own fuse panel, and see if that kidney silliness will go away.
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22nd
February
2018
Time to teach more science to the world, for oh, so many reasons. Today, I learned that the police in Calgary hired a U.S. biotech firm to assist in a murder case. The request, specifically, was to prepare a portrait of one of the parents of the victim, using DNA. And the firm complied, with a wonderful portrait of a young woman. Could this be the bleeding edge of technology?
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14th
March
2017
The report is in, from a family member: that Holi Festival with the rainbow of coloured powders is real. No word on what breathing the dust is like.
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11th
November
2015
Shades of Shakespeare! “To sleep, perchance to dream”. I’ll bet he made the mistake of staying a little too long under warm covers, had a few exhausting nightmares and woke up wishing he’d just got up before the night’s rest was spent. Yes, I know better than to laze abed… now.
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30th
July
2015
Don’t get distracted by the name. Earlier today, my astronomy app chimed with a bulletin that we’re on the eve of a blue moon. Cool, right!
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19th
July
2015
I must have missed something in the weather forecast. That rain is hardly the thing that gets the tourist doing a happy dance. Although, in fairness, my local potato plot looks positively refreshed.
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14th
July
2015
Tourists; the greater the distance, the more interesting the scenery. At least, if we base the pictures revealed this morning by a long distance voyager. The mission to fly by Pluto is starting to send back images, and I am surprised…
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20th
March
2015
Someone, during an online lecture, said that astronomy is (perhaps) the only science based on observation instead of experimentation. I’ll accept that. Today, the news proudly informed us that today had a trifecta for skywatchers: an eclipse, an equinox and a “supermoon”. I saw none of the above. Blind faith required.
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30th
August
2014
In another of those “Ha! Made you look!” moments, I followed a link on the CBC website, purporting to show what it looks like when asteroids collide. In return for my effort, the artist’s conception drawing was presented in full colour. All that it lacked were those Batman type sound effect balloons. And there lies my frustration. What NASA actually has on hand is a series of graphs, collected over a period of months, that show an increased amount of light detected by an infrared sensor. The artist can feel free to illustrate me, disappointed.
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