Category Archives: everything else

Morning thoughts: escaping our island Earth

As sometimes happens, last night I found myself watching youtube videos of Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson and other astronomer/astrophysicist heroes of mine. I’ve also been reading Gene Kranz’s wonderful memoirs, Failure is Not An Option, and, well, it’s just got me thinking of space a lot this morning. In the time that I’ve been [...]

First post from my phone.

Using the WordPress for Android app. Super nice! I dunno if this is how I’m going to post from now on. This is a little… small.

Aaaaaand we’re back. Hi.

So, as I was saying, I recently changed hosting companies for this blog and all my other sites, domains, and all. I cavalierly decided to delete my slicehost account before having everything set up and working over here, which was infinitely foolish of me. Turns out that if you want to back up a wordpress [...]

My mom's famous!

. . . in Google Maps street view. Amazing! Also in Google Earth!

A quick glance at the origins of the peace symbol.

Being from the South, of course I’d heard the old (neoconservative) wives’ tale that the peace symbol is meant to be an inverted, broken cross. I was killing time reading some hilarious article on Cracked.com, and found this site alleging that Mikhail Gorbachev is the antichrist, somehow.

Pat Robertson is a jerk.

In the midst of the collective outpouring of grief and support throughout the world for the people of Haiti, struck this week by a mind-blowing magnitude 7 earthquake, there was one man who just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to babble hate-speech incoherently on the teeveebox. That man is Pat fucking Robertson, who I would [...]

A simple productivity app.

I’ve been working on a very simple productivity app for the past week or so. It’s a to-do list application, written with Ruby on Rails, that works in web browsers and mobile (for now just iPhone) browsers, and it’s tentatively called Listinator 2000.

An unexpected cameo by Courage Wolf.

It’s an oldie but a goodie. Anyone remember this meme? ( for Tina )

A question about climbing Everest

So . . . you’re climbing Mt Everest. It’s -4°F and really windy. You’re climbing. . . . What happens if you have to pee?

OMG CUTE

Okay. It’s finally happened. I have found the cutest picture in the whole internet. BEHOLD! moar funny pictures