Posts Tagged: Nature, Space, Science, Tech
This Is Not Quite My Personal Jet Pack
Posted by on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 in - 1 comment
What is it about technology that makes you think your widget will solve everything? This idea is one that I trust never happens, given the foreseeable consequences variations on road rage and simple bad driving that inevitably would ensue: • “"Today I am talking about making aviation available … read more »
Friday Bullets For The First Weekend Of May
Posted by on Friday, May 2, 2008 in - 3 comments
How was your May Day? Did you think of Stalin? Didn't pop into my head once • but I did about seven loads of laundry. Does that count? • Update: photobombing...potentially • NSFW depending on where you work and who is watching! • Were you aware that India launched ten satellites with one …
Group Project: Do We Love Biofuels Or Hate Them?
Posted by on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 in - 8 comments
Finally. A new crop farmers can grow - even in the third world - that the industrialized nations a desperate to get their hands on. But all is not well with biofuels. We should have heeded the warning of The House Martins from twenty years ago: • “Me and the farmer get on fine, • Through … read more »
The Yaks Of Syracuse
Posted by on Monday, March 31, 2008 in - leave a comment
Yaks! Who knew? Much smellier than the nicest animal in the world: the red panda. The Syracuse Zoo is one of the most manageable and interesting small zoos we've been to so far. Don't believe what people say. Zoos are coming back.
When Sustainability Eats Itself
Posted by on Monday, March 24, 2008 in - 1 comment
Day four of Idle-fest 2008. What better time to consider the sugar beet? In PEI, a company setting up to produce biofuels may move elsewhere due to further review of their plans: • “The provincial environmental and renewable industries committee on Tuesday released a report recommending a new …
Report #23867 Of The Institute Of The Blaringly Obvious
Posted by on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 in - leave a comment
Nothing like reading that does not tax the brain on one's sick day. So it was with some joy that I read the news that men like meat: • “It may not come as a bolt out of the blue, but one of the largest studies yet has proven that men and women really do eat differently. Researchers who … read more »
Friday Bullets For The Last Weekend Of Winter
Posted by on Friday, March 14, 2008 in - 2 comments
Another Friday. They flow by like the days of the week. A week or so from spring and still there's feet of snow. That's not exactly helping. Morton's teetering and the Orange are gone. At least things are going better for me than they are for Eliot Spitzer. WFAN had an interview with his …
If Spring Is Coming, It's Time For The Soft Focus Lens
Posted by on Monday, March 10, 2008 in - 2 comments
I don't buy seal pelts or eat flipper pie. Nor do I eat veal. But I gobble lamb and trade craft beer for venison, both chucks and ground up. I have represented a slaughterhouse. I do not rank age as a particularly important aggravating factor whatever experience of pain or disappointment that an …
The Death Of The 300 Pound TV
Posted by on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 in - 1 comment
I suppose the 45 rpm manufacturers associations of American scrambled to find other ways to market the seven inch disk with a hole in the middle, too: • “But Texas Instruments, the chip maker that developed the digital light processor most commonly found in most rear-projection TVs, is holding …
The Nerds Of Righteousness And Justice
Posted by on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 in - 2 comments
Ok, they are nerds but this is sort of a weird look into what happens when you don't put away the telescope when you are thirteen and swap it for a healthy dose of teenage angst: • “They have grudgingly become accustomed to being seen as "propeller-headed geeks" who "poke their finger in the … read more »
