Roll of thunder
Sitting in M&K's living room, seeing occasional huge flashing lightning bursts off to the north, followed ten or fifteen seconds...
Cthulhu online
The search engine man was not meant to know: Cthuugle. And for more Internet Cthulhu goodness: LOLTHULHU. Some of my...
Video roundup
Some more unthemed videos for your delectation and amusement: The South Pasadena Unified Grade "A" Jug Band, consisting of students...
Welcome, Sarah!
Beth and C's daughter Sarah was born this past Monday morning (two days ago) around 3 a.m., which coincidentally was...
Another life update
The previous entry didn't really say much about what I've been up to. Some notes: Spent most of the week...
Summer of travel
A few weeks ago, I noted that I was probably going to be out of town for seven out of...
Moon landing in 40 minutes
The other day, I mentioned a realtime online audio rebroadcast of the Apollo 11 mission, from NASA. Turns out there's...
Space travel, sense of wonder, and engineering feats
Interesting pair of articles: "Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?", by Ted Anthony, for AP, discusses...
Roundsing at Swarthmore in 11+ hours
I'm on my way to sleep, but it just occurred to me that I ought to mention here that we'll...
Apollo 11: Forty years later
Lane Wallace discusses spaceflight, sense of wonder, and technology—noting, for example, that the Apollo 11 computer had 36K of memory....
Reporting YouTube videos
Some day it may happen that you come across a YouTube video that violates the service's community guidelines. For example,...
KGB tonight (Delany et al reading in NYC)
In case any of y'all New Yorkers don't know: The KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street, just off 2nd Ave)...