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07/05/06
Back In Black : Discovery Launches with Few Hitches
Yay! They're back into space, up in orbit. No explosions, no Busey-esque terrorists on the platform.
We took a break around lunchtime at work yesterday to watch the launch. I'd forgotten what it felt like to watch a launch, in particular when it's… more »
6% GST is Here
I didn't even notice it creeping up on us: the GST has been reduced from 7% to 6% here, just on the Canada Day weekend.
We first encountered it waiting in line behind a couple of people making returns at a store. We wondered why it was taking such a… more »
Space Not Expanding? and Other Questions
Not published yet, but came across this interesting paper which did a sort of Michelson-Morley experiment but for the expansion of space.
The hypothesis being tested was that if local space was expanding, effects of this would show up if you let lasers… more »
07/02/06
The Brick Testament
Wow, talk about a labour of... well, some combination of emotions which may have included part love and part obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I'm talking about the Bible done entire in lego. (From a link on the Divine Afflatus)
When my mother was… more »
06/21/06
Future Little Science Experiments
I have a casual plan in mind to call my future children "my little science experiments", with a twinkle in my eye.
It's odd to be contemplating children. I feel at once too young and well past old enough. You know it's an investment. You know your… more »
06/16/06
06/11/06
Alternative Cosmology Group
What got me going again was someone asking about the source of a very cool dodecahedral WMAP cutout on Vincent Icke's web page.
Well, I thought I'd put my Googling skills to the test again. I didn't find the source, unfortunately, but I was appalled at… more »
06/05/06
The Ideal Lawn for Mowing
My Mom at last sold her home where we kids grew up from junior high to high school and a little beyond. It was a little bit of a sentimental occasion, but it's a very nice family from Ireland that's bought the place.
I got to take the old lawnmower for… more »
05/30/06
No Free Hunch
In following the "Intelligent Design" debate, when I'm not getting a bit sick to my stomach, I must admit to being thankful for the occasional humourous distraction.
The No Free Hunch list (a take off on Dembski's paper "No Free Lunch", which I've… more »
05/27/06
Inventions To Cause The Downfall of Society
I was musing over a theoretical invention that could cause society's downfall. No, it's not telepathy, though I'm sure that would do it.
If there ever was a device that let you hear what people said for the next ten seconds after you hung up the phone,… more »
05/15/06
Simpsons : The Monkey Suit Episode
I didn't really think the Simpsons would take on a stronger evolution versus creationism episode... but they did, and while the ending was a little bit 'diluted' from my own views, all in all, I'm pretty impressed at the way it was handled.
The… more »
05/11/06
Not... Learning... Fast... Enough...
This article almost seems to me to be satire. Is it? Probably not.
Perhaps it's just the tone of the article that irks me. Well, it's definitely that:
But at the same time teachers are becoming more comfortable with using eMail, students have largely… more »
04/23/06
Culture Plateau?
Looking back at movies from the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's, and then comparing the 90's with today, it occurs to me that despite the "ever increasing pace of change", we really seem to be... stabilizing.
Beauty, clothing and music technology has been… more »
04/18/06
Invalid Floating Point Operation in Embedded Internet Explorer
Ran across some trouble the other day. We've allowed embedding Internet Explorer windows in our solutions, which is great for linked portals, intro pages, etc. Things were going great guns, but on some particular web pages, things would go into a… more »
04/06/06
The "Good Old Days"
I was on the LRT yesterday and didn't quite bear witness to an altercation between some "punk-ass kids". One older guy on the LRT chased them off, for which I was quite happy. However, once they were gone, he started spouting the same old sort of drivel… more »
