Speaking self-interest to power
Another interesting article from TIME: "Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days," By Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf. But the specific...
Some interesting abortion articles
The other day, happened across an interesting article in TIME: "Finding Common Ground on an Abortion Bill," by Amy Sullivan....
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....