Does anyone in town have digital video recording capabilities I could use? I want to copy the Star Wards trilogy off of some LAZORdiscs before we sell them.

Apparently this year is the year of astronomy, according to some people, because it's the 400th anniversary of the first use of a telescope to observe the sky ( Read more... )

I don't know a lot about the Bible and I don't care about it in itself, but I do care about how it and the attendant 2000+ years of scholarship on it affect the behavior of the monkeys I need to share space with ( Read more... )

I like Dollhouse. It's not the greatest television show ever created, but I'm enjoying it and it seems to have the potential to go somewhere. It's weird to have a show with a protagonist you know basically nothing about and really can't care about at all, but I'm liking the story and the Alpha plot. I also have to say I really enjoy the military ( Read more... )

I'm starting to actually want to use this journal for its journaling function, but really only as it relates to karate. So this post, and an unknowable number more will mostly be notes for myself. I think this is the kind of thing people set up filters for sometimes. Should I? Anyone want to be saved from potentially incessant karate ramblings ( Read more... )

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When asked to comment on the destruction of the unfinished hotel, the architect commented that it was a shame this happened before the building could open to the public. Most sane people, on the other hand, would probably be relieved that such a gigantic inferno didn't also contain hundreds of people ( Read more... )

Today I had the idea of trying to make a single meal that would violate as many religious dietary restrictions as possible. The notion began with trying to violate every kosher rule in one meal. Such a meal would likely be both disgusting an illegal, since it would need to contain a bird of prey, a bat, and some bugs. But if we, say, limit it to ( Read more... )

There's been some increased discussion about building new nuclear plants to help solve our energy problems, and there's a persistent myth that keeps popping up: nuclear waste ( Read more... )

Wood get.

The fire should begin around 6:30-7:00 on Friday and go for threeish hours. Tell your friends. Ask me for directions if, for example, you've never been to Jaye's before. Bring tasty things if you're up to the challenge!

This article highlights, I think, just how little people understand the notion of an economic stimulus bill. I mean, everyone seems to have understood how a tax rebate was supposed to stimulate the economy, even though plenty of people didn't actually spend their rebate ( Read more... )