TAM5

I loved my first Amazing Meeting, even though I experienced the whole thing through the haze of a nasty cold. The skeptic crowd…these are my people! And the small group of us who are both burners and skeptics are 2X my people. I don’t mean a homeopathic 2X dilution, of course, but a double-admiration, blood-brothers-and-sisters [...]

sweet black kitty

Maggie rescued D.B. from a pet shop in Abbotsford, British Columbia. They denied that the cat had parasites, but Maggie knew better. She purchased D.B. (a female) as well as a cute little orange boy tabby. Upon arrival in Seattle, tiny D.B. spent time in a sort of incubator at a veterinary hospital–a little IC [...]

dark side

 My new computer has a camera that captures the evil lurking within.

chimps with weapons

According this article, some female chimpanzees are stabbing bush babies with hand-crafted spears. They choose a branch, take off the leaves, break it to the right size, and chew the end to make it pointed. They push the spear into holes where the nocturnal bush babies might be sleeping. Out of pure scientific curiosity, let’s [...]

barbarian girls and burning women

“Barbarian girls in water photos” is a most excellent search phrase that someone used to get to this blog. Welcome all visitors in search of barbarian girls in water photos! I seem to have misplaced those pictures. I’ll get out to the local barbarian girls public swimming pool ASAP and get some images for you.
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stumbled into space

Thanks to the Firefox add-on, StumbleUpon, I stumbled upon this artist’s conception of a giant, rotating space habitat. It would be an exciting engineering project (major understatement).

the force of Wilber, SF shorts, and the Baker’s Wife

Saw an advance screening of a movie, “Amazing Grace,” a fictionalized account of the real William Wilberforce, a major player in the movement to abolish the slave trade in Great Britain. The history is interesting, but the movie makes William into such a perfect and noble human that you don’t take him very seriously.
Saw [...]

six weird things

A few weeks ago, Gretchin posted six weird things about herself, after having been challenged to do so by someone else. Her #1 weird thing: “i used to drink worcestershire sauce & italian dressing straight.” Barf. She in turn challenged me and some others to post their six things. Okay.

1. I spend every night [...]