You’ve probably familiar with August, 1914…  You may even have read the book of the same name, or the other famous one, “The Guns of August”.  As we draw closer to the centennial anniversary of those times, I find myself wondering what life looked like to people 100 years ago ( Read more... )

Brownie the pig lived with us for four years, with his two brothers.  He was good pig, and we loved him dearly, and when he got sick, we did the best we could for him, but of course in the end we lost him anyway.

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"At Dawn We Slept", published in 1981, was primarily based on 37 year's worth of investigation by Gordon Prange into the attack on Pearl Harbor, although ultimately completed by his colleagues after his death.  At the time of the attack, the commander of the US fleet at anchor was Admiral Husband E. Kimmel; afterward, Kimmel was accused of ( Read more... )

Not believing in Global Warming is one thing; I can imagine an intelligent person who isn't convinced (but avoids polluting anyway, hopefully, just because it's the right thing to do ( Read more... )

Asics Gel Kayano running shoes: $135.00 ( Read more... )

...If you're into that sort of thing, I recommend Robert K. Massie's "Dreadnought", a study of the naval arms race between Germany and Britain in the run-up to WWI. He's a biographer, not an engineer, so there's more personal profile thumbnails than hard engineering stats, but it's a fascinating book none the less. One gets a sense of how much ( Read more... )

I. Do. Not. Get. People ( Read more... )

I've found recently that my thinking vis-a-vis happiness is evolving ( Read more... )

...So, I went out running today. 26 degrees; crazy, right? Actually, it wasn't bad. I have a new running jacket from Brooks, which is just totally cool. It weighs just about nothing, but it keeps you really warm -- if you keep moving. I went 11.9 miles in 114'13", which is far from superb, but at this point in the season, I'm just trying to ( Read more... )

So, if you have a closed box with some water in it at a certain temperature, any liquid water will evaporate until the vapor pressure is reached - trying to maintain equilibrium. Once the partial pressure of water vapor reaches the equilibrium vapor pressure, if we have an open container of water in the box, even though some water molecules will ( Read more... )