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Breaking bones
I managed to avoid breaking anything in my body, Until July 5 Saturday, 18 days ago, when I fell and broke my left wrist.
Pain so bad you don't make much noise, but you get nauseous. I'd thought I'd cracked my left radius. I was in a group event and one of the participants, a kind woman named Bella, was an emergency physician. She examined me and ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Planet's Rights
It should commiserate with Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta, which suffered the same fate in the 19th Century.
Face it, it's not a planet. I think the 2006 IAU definition:
A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic ( Read more... ) -
A rose by any other name...
I first encountered the complexity of objects and their names and the mess referencing and recursion can get you into when studying Pascal. Later got thoroughly...enlightened...by _Gödel, Escher, Bach_ (never finished, still need to read) messing about with the same stuff ( Read more... ) -
Kareoke!
Last night, I saw mockingspike sing "Genie in a Bottle" and "Just a Gigolo" and you didn't. :P (Well, drakkenfyre was there too. :) Was so impressed I forgot what he sang on his first time up--"Piano Man", thank you, drakkenfyreAnd he and I did a duet of "Sixteen Tons". We are now accepting bribes for, say, ABBA's "Gimme, Gimme". We're confident enough to do it, but we'd have to ( Read more... ) -
While upon a midnight...
It's been a while since I tried to use a computer with a cat interested in being in my face--as they are from time to time when they want attention.
I'm house-sitting for my parents (who are away visiting my brother and sister-in-law), and Sophie the cat (who doesn't look at all like the cat in my icon, but more like this: ( very cute ) -
This should have been yesterday
A day late (sorry), here's a big happy-birthday to typhonblue. How's it going, eh? -
3rd Stargate series in development
News at GateWorld.
Discussion at Slashdot.
In the Slashdot discussion, I found this biting post with some thought-provoking ideas towards the end:
Series Premier
I'm curious of what others think about this. (Some of the follow-ups to this post are interesting too.) -
For those with any remaining confidence...
...in the Conservative Government, prepare to abandon it.
Ottawa won't back Canadian-built Mars roverThe European Space Agency wanted Canadian companies--the world leaders in robotics--to built the rover for its planned Mars mission for 2015. All the government had to do to support it was reallocate $100 million over the next 10 years in existing ( Read more... ) -
A sad story
I once read an adventure in which our band of intrepid heroes had to get something useful out of a massive long epic tale of a previous band of intrepid heroes. They gave it to a very good computer to summarize, which it did ( Read more... ) -
Dear Ken & Joan Cooper
I'm sorry that your relative, Lisa Cooper, and what I assume are her children, Crystal and Shawn, don't live here anymore. I do. I asked my landlord to see if he knew anything but he doesn't. I'm having Canada Post send back your Christmas cards to them. My sympathy for whatever's led to this situation--assuming you just haven't used an old address ( Read more... )