Random Thoughts
- Thoughts on Elevatorgate and Dudes Not Getting It
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Maybe Nosferatu was a good name for this cat after all. He loves to leap at our legs, clamp on with his front claws and start chomping. Same for our arms. Cujo the cat would have been a good name, too. Still, he's a lovely animal; even when his littl ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Jul 12 2011 - 1:59pm
- The Scientific Method
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The Scientific Method While I was working hard on my translation of the memoire of the illustrious Ignaz Venetz, I found that the need to indulge in some hermeneutic and other studies had me nicely side-tracked on more than one occasion. In order to ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 22 2011 - 1:44pm
- Golden Age Mad Scientist ISO World to Save
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In the golden age of science fiction (1930s-1950s), a typical protagonist was a square-jawed working stiff, perhaps a bureaucrat or a cop, who stumbled into a strange mystery that defied conventional explanation. Who would that bloke call up, but his frien ...
Blog Post - Project Calliope - Aug 9 2011 - 10:01pm
- A Father's Journey In Acceptance
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Mark Osteen's One of Us There are many memoirs out there, many stories by individuals about their journeys as parents of disabled children, and some are good, some are great, and others are neither. Some writers are polished and offer their journeys ...
Article - Kim Wombles - Jul 27 2011 - 9:25am
- Beast Machines: The "War And Peace" Of The Transformers Milieu
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I am told "Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon" is a good film. I enjoyed the first movie well enough, even if it was noisy in all of the wrong ways. The sequel hurt both my eyes and my sensibilities but at least the pain in my eyes had an eas ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 31 2011 - 3:24pm
- More Agenda Driven Research
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It is always disappointing to see agendas being rationalized by what passes for "research". A good example occurs in this article examining the impact of smoke-free laws in rural or urban businesses. Of course, it is never quite clear what the i ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Aug 1 2011 - 9:25pm
- Hiatus
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Blogging will be non-existent for three days, and please do not expect me to answer your comments in the various threads-I am going to be on a ship carrying me to Greece, and, God bless it, there is no Internet! ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Aug 3 2011 - 11:10am
- Science 2.0 For TV- Product Planning
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This afternoon we had the first formal meeting for product planning of the Science 2.0 television pilot. As you can imagine, there was talk of technical details, how the creative guys will set up the shot lists and storyboard the segments, what segments ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 5 2011 - 10:15am
- Have-to, Not-Fair, Gotta-do
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In many ways, things here are undoubtedly like they are for countless other families: our kids whine over chores, they bicker with each other, they push each other's buttons countless times a day, and they shout out choruses of "Do I have to?&quo ...
Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Aug 5 2011 - 8:32am
- Do Unto Apple As It Did Unto XeroxPARC? Copied By Counterfeit Stores
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Karma? Maybe, but copycat stores in Kumming, China are going far beyond what Apple did in pilfering the look and flow of Xerox technology for its Apple computer interface. The Chinese are creating duplicates, right down to the names of the products. It ...
Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 11 2011 - 12:51pm
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