I’d forgotten how much I hate the Vegas airport. A sea of humanity, tempted by glittering and beeping slot machines. No place to sit and eat – just sticky stools in front of machines that fool the statistically challenged. Now onto Hartford!
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For many weeks, the radio program “To the Best of Our Knowledge” has been running a series entitled “Electrons to Enlightenment”. It’s taking a wide and varied look at the issues of religion and science in modern American society. The most recent program discussed the relevance of evolution to a […]
I was pleased with the results of the recent elections, although I believe that this was more a vote against Southern Republicans than a vote for Democrats. In a two-party system, when you vote against one party by definition you wind up voting for the other, even if you don’t […]
As I have probably mentioned in the past, “On The Media” is one of my favorite weekly programs (and netcasts). It tackles issues concerning the media’s portrayal of events, and is interesting from a “peer review” point of view. In science, we review the work of other scientists and by […]
It’s just not the holiday season in this household without a trip to the SF ballet’s performance of “The Nutcracker”. Jodi and I put on our sunday best last night and headed up to the city for a wonderful and transportive night of dance, music, and sets. As you can […]
Washington state is getting hammered. This is one of the bigger winter storms in years, and it’s left the good folks to our north in a state of emergency. While we’ve been gray and chilly all day, it’s nothing even approaching bad weather. However, there is this lingering promise of […]
The sudden illness of a Senator from South Dakota, Tim Johnson, made me think about how small the world is. His illness is terrible: a silent growth of blood vessels in the brain that are unable to contain the pressure and rupture. The subsequent stroke affects the regions of the […]
Vanity is my pocket PC, and since I can send mail from it I should also be able to moblog. If you’re reading this, then Vanity has one more reason to be full of itself.
This post is an experiment. I am attempting the test the so-called “Moblogging”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblog feature of my blog. This is the ability to send blog entries via e-mail, so that I can use a mobile device rather than relying on having my desktop PC handy. If this appears, then it works!
It’s been a computer-ful week! Cooleysekula.net is, as I have mentioned before, hosted from a personal server assembled from second-hand parts. Tonight, I added one of the first major *new* parts to the system in years: a new hard drive. For a while, I’ve known the 7-year-old drives serving as […]
Tonight, cooleysekula.net got an upgrade. I switched from a six-year-old, 333MHz second-hand PC to a 3-year-old 1GHz second-hand PC. Every now and then, when I replace a desktop machine in the house or when a family member tosses out a computer, I harvest it for running our webserver. Of course, […]
I almost always get a cold after the December BaBar collaboration meeting. It’s a combination of stress and exposure to hacking and coughing international colleagues. It also serves as a reminder of the fallibility of the human form, the susceptibility to the most minute parasite wishing to use my cells […]