another halloween gone

All praise to the Timmons’ for continuing their most excellent annual Halloween parties. Thanks to “A Wink and a Smile,” now Seattle’s burlesque stars are coming to the party, which seems to get larger every year.

cosmic puzzles–easy answers

The following questions appeared in New Scientist magazine. They are allegedly the seven unanswered questions that most frequently keep physicists awake at night. I can answer all seven because I have friends with authority on these matters. I decided to put these questions to either the Master Nashwan or my Ouija board mouse pad. [...]

isn’t the cost of medical care an interesting topic?

I’ve been listening to the two-part “This American Life” examination of the health care industry in the U.S. of A. Below are a few items I took away from this broadcast. Caution: I sometimes get things wrong, so I advise listening to it yourself. It’s an entertaining and educational review of the topic.
Underlying causes of [...]

random images for today

A reminder regarding the upcoming election–don’t forget #6!

I saw this burst of blue fireballs in the desert. It lasted less than a second.

Greta copied me on this charming photo and message.

testing with cat and brownies

I’m trying to post to this blog using the cell phone Android app for WordPress. While making brownies and dealing with a cat nuzzling my hair. This is only a test. It’s kind of painstaking.

good health is pouring from your nose

This is the appealing cover photo from a box containing what is usually called a neti pot. The model is demonstrating the technique of pouring warm salt water into one nostril while it comes out the other. When an actor is called to be a model in an advertisement, he or she never knows what’s [...]

blogiversary– return to the future

(Image found on http://www.udel.edu/biology/Wags/histopage/wagnerart/worldspage/worlds.html)
October 9th will be the six-year anniversary of dangblog. I’ll observe this occasion with a return to one of my first posts “Goodbye Monkey Body.” In that post I was a little disdainful of the “transhumanist” movement. Here’s a summary of how I saw it then, and my views haven’t changed [...]

the news is missing

I’ve been away from the blog so long I’ve practically forgotten how to saddle up the old WordPress. But that’s not news. Here’s news:
Item 1.
You may remember a Robyn Hitchcock song from a year or two back with these immortal words:
Viva viva viva viva viva Sea-Tac
They’ve got the best computers and coffee and smack
Now we [...]