9th
March
2014
Possessing power (political or financial) seems to be akin to a disease. When you have both; I’d prefer not to go there. However, this election campaign just revealed the first “name candidate”, and it’s a whopper. In control of too much of the media, sitting on the board of important organizations, someone now wants the minor orders that go with “winning” a seat. Is winning like buying?
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posted in politics, science |
10th
November
2013
Best get the seasonal stuff out of the way, before anything else.
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posted in science, Wx |
15th
February
2013
There is science, and there is science fiction. And when the two paths join, be very afraid. The news out of Chelyabinsk (for those unfamiliar with Russian geography, Google is your travel guide) shows a meteorite on a collision path with the area. It also shows that some things can’t be predicted, no matter how good the mathematics.
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posted in science, travel |
21st
August
2011
I’m always on the lookout for products that make me question the schooling I so painfully received over a long period of time. One of the best places to get that “dazed and confused” feeling: the local grocery store.
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posted in food, science |
26th
June
2011
Due to my pragmatic view of things, I’m not going to miss any sleep over the near approach of an asteroid tomorrow afternoon. Little matter that it’s the size of a city bus, and scheduled to pass withing 8 kilo-miles (pardon the attempted mix of units). Let’s face it; if it hits it doesn’t matter, and if it doesn’t, it doesn’t matter.
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posted in environment, science |
2nd
April
2011
The musical flavour for today is retro. Think about a time before Woodstock, when the chorist and the tremelo were important. Think about Motown before anyone did rap or hiphop. Think about singers that doubled as movie stars.
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posted in health, science |
22nd
February
2011
When the earth shakes, it can ruin a perfect day. Ask the people in New Zealand. Or Chile. Or Greece. Or any number of places.
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posted in science |
8th
May
2010
The pool store is still the cheapest source of my chemical fix. I tried shopping around, but the other big box stores have figured it out for themselves. There is too little margin for places like Wallies and Canny Tire to waste valuable floor space on pallets of bad smelling powder.
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posted in science, Wx |
7th
May
2010
Prescriptive analysis, I believe it’s called. The examination of an accident, with the goal of preventing a reoccurence. Sort of like what you do at home, when you’ve stubbed your little toe (badly) because someone else moved that dad-blasted chair into the route you take between the couch and the refrigerator. I jest, a little.
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posted in science |
10th
April
2010
“To sleep; to die, perchance to dream”. Or how about “What’s in a name?” Big news in the scientific world, for one of the smaller members.
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posted in science |
