Posts Tagged: Nature, Space, Science, Tech
Please Don't Hit Me. Please Don't Hit Me. Please Don't Hit Me.
Posted by on Monday, January 28, 2008 in - leave a comment
Drag. I just got the new shingles up this year - like 40 year shingles, you know. And now there's space junk a fallin'. Space junk can look cool when it's falling except when it's falling on you. • I must have told you this but last summer, we were sitting out back in the early evening when …
The Last Friday Bullets Before February
Posted by on Friday, January 25, 2008 in - 17 comments
Janufeb. The grey blur before the melt, made more grey those three out of four years without Olympic curling. It is the time when the Morton teeters, when show turns that other colour. We've seen the dark edge of the storm and even had double lake effect this week. I heard an ad for large screen …
Did I Mention That Space Module Design Is My Hobby?
Posted by on Monday, January 7, 2008 in - 2 comments
The British have proposed a new module for the International Space Station: • “Their idea is for Britain to build and launch two modules that greatly enhance living conditions on the platform. The Habitation Extension Modules would increase meeting and bunk space; and allow the UK to fly some …
How To Tell That Your Campaign Is Not Going Well
Posted by on Sunday, January 6, 2008 in - 6 comments
"So, they tell me this is the next big thing..." • Poor old Rudy. The final indignity will be at the polls but, really, ought there not be a rule in politics about not being seen on a Segway? Nice placement of the background signage.
Your Neanderthal Update
Posted by on Wednesday, January 2, 2008 in - leave a comment
Was they we? • “Modern humans may well have evolved from hardy Neanderthals who suffered through a dramatic cold spell that descended on Europe about 40,000 years ago, according to a new study that throws another coal into the already heated scientific debate about our origins. The report …
The Liberal Conspiracy Spreads
Posted by on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 in - 2 comments
I suspect that when Steve trips on his shoe laces that they are cursed as Liberal-manufactured shoe laces imbued with a wicked trippiness. When ketchup drips of his French fry onto his shirt, it is Liberal-ketchup of the most evil drippy sort: • “"There will be no nuclear accident," Prime …
The UK Talks About 100% Wind Power
Posted by on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 in - 4 comments
I suppose that once you have accepted that someone needs to have a wind turbine near their house, then it is a small leap to suggest that everyone needs to have one: • “All UK homes could be powered by offshore wind farms by 2020 as part of the fight against climate change, under plans unveiled …
More Hoodie Crime Technology
Posted by on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 in - 1 comment
The clothing does apparently make the man and it's under the eye of Big Brother in the UK: • “The software would allow officers to quickly analyse hours of CCTV footage, in which the suspect may have appeared, for images containing the distinctive clothing, in the hope of finding pictures that …
Thinking Yet Still Drinking
Posted by on Sunday, November 18, 2007 in - 3 comments
While sometimes I think accounts of new movements or fads are really just the combination of a particular instance or two with a reporter with the need of a story - but this is a more interesting than most: • “Science groups for young professionals who don't wear white coats, like the year-old …
Where Are The Lakes Going?
Posted by on Monday, October 22, 2007 in - 12 comments
Good Oswego-based knowledge in the NYT this morning. Easlakia is more like Eas-scrapia these days.
