Monthly Archives: April 2010

So yesterday was BoobQuake

And it worked! SNERK!

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AZ Immigration Law

Ahhh, nothing like a law that says “Let me see your papers.”  Just another example of “Conservatives are not Libertarians”. By the way, if you think illegal immigrants are just too lazy to come here legally, you might want to … Continue reading

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Your Daily Geek – New Energy Tech Edition

First Up, a new material that can: By engineering a metamaterial with such properties, we are opening the door to such unusual—but potentially useful—phenomena as superlensing (high-resolution imaging past the diffraction limit), invisibility cloaking, and the synthesis of materials index-matched … Continue reading

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We’re Back!

With all our fingers and toes still attached, and cramps in our smiling muscles. You should have been there. Here a few pix for now just before I collapse onto the mattress. They are all “clicken to embiggen” and taken … Continue reading

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So who here has seen “Equilibrium”?

When they start trying to sneak this into the water supply, or something like that, we are in trouble.  I just know that almost every politician in DC is wondering how to mass produce and distribute this.

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Thursday Fiction

What happens when The Four Horsemen get all Philosophical? Courtesy of Tor

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We aren’t this bad yet

but we do experience it on a somewhat smaller scale.

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A change in scenery

While I am away at Boomershoot, The Wife will be prepping the guest bathroom for the contractor who’ll begin doing the remodeling on it next Monday. She got to choose the vanity, sink, faucet and mirror. We both worked hard … Continue reading

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Figuratively speaking, of course

From my email, via The Mom George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil tells them it is for … Continue reading

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A Good Story

I got this From Dr. Pournelle.  It showed up in my RSS feed, but I can’t find it on his site. Subject: Good fighter pilot story: Kill’em and Eat’em Forwarded to me by my brother Dave: This came from a … Continue reading

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