Check out the Galileoscope – it’s an attempt by the International Year of Astronomy to create a $10 telescope that can resolve the rings of Saturn.
I was behind a Hummer H2 today and noticed it had tie-down points. WTF? Is someone sling-loading these things below a Chinook?
I’m saddened that, of the 1900+ posts I’ve made in more than ten years of online presence, the one which has become the most-viewed is one with a half-nude actress. I thought I was a better writer than that. *sigh*
It seems the vast majority of military active duty and veterans I have ever met are vehemently opposed to socialized medicine for the country. If you’re using socialized medicine, why do you want to deny it to others?
The woman who is known as the voice of the Enterprise has died, at the age of 76. She’ll always be Nurse Chapel to some, but I’ll remember her as Lwaxana Troi, that saucy lady. Majel Barrett Roddenberry is the only person to have been in every movie, even if only as a disembodied voice. That voice lives on, in the next Trek film, which is a great tribute to honor a great actress.
Remember the reason for the season – Axial Tilt.
What is with the constant repitition of the term “repudiate” this week? It sounds remarkably like the old Nazi/Communist concept of “denouncing” your friends or family in order to prove your ideological purity. What happened to this country?
July 11th, 2008 – US Government seizes control of IndyMac, largest S&L in Los Angeles and 7th largest mortgage company in the USA.
September 7th, 2008 – US Government acquires control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two largest mortgage backers in the USA.
September 16th, 2008 – US Government acquires 80% control of AIG, largest insurance company in the USA.
Dear coworkers who babble all too frequently near my desk: “nonplussed” actually does not mean the same as “unfazed” but um…the opposite. Thank you, please drive through.
“Liberal in the good sense…” Because the liberal media is so ineffective at propagandazing that the term liberal has become a curse word, while somehow conservative is still a respectable term.
The final count of animals wanting to use my car as part of their assisted suicide pact tonight: 9. That’s three cats, five deer, and one skunk. Something in the air, I guess.
As I watched Mark Klein on the news this morning, it occurred to me that none of the major internet peers care about their customers. In a world where one of the peers was more concerned with the safety of their data and less concerned with sucking up to the government, AT&T would have been routed around via a DNS poisoning. Any organization which cannot be trusted to keep the data on the internet safe and secure should simply not be trusted with that data.
Yet, none of the peers dropped AT&T as a peer. They continued to route data through AT&T’s routers, even as it became perfectly clear that AT&T was copying all the data as it went by for analysis by the government.
The guy behind me at dinner tonight seemed to complain non-stop. I was thrilled when his entree arrived, but he still didn’t let up. Some folks just need to bitch, I guess.
The Boy ate a massive amount of crab legs, as usual. Oink.
As if there hasn’t been enough evidence that two of our branches of government are at war, Scott Jennings actually claimed today that his job description was covered by executive privilege. WTF? His job is secret?
I thought I saw this headline on my newspage this morning: IKEA set to approve new nuclear mission to N.Korea.
IKEA, IAEA, what’s the difference, right?
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut has died. The world has lost a truly great wit and author.
Hey, 
bloojanuary! It was over 85 degrees today. 🙂
One side benefit to living alone for five days a week, minus the cat (and thanks again for reminding me, Yahoo!, that Valentine’s Day is this week) – nobody complains about playing Plastic Bertrand’s Ca Plane Pour Moi at high volumes.
Spotted at a bank this afternoon: Moble Branch Ribbion Cutting Ceremony. Ouch.
To follow up really quickly on my earlier spelling post, here’s another one:
Plead – the past tense of plead is either pleaded or pled. The past tense of plead is not plead.
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