I have said in the past that McCain will not get the Republican nomination for president.  He has a history of pissing off many of the major interests that have had lots of sway in the party. Looking at the current choices, I hope that I was wrong (though a little politico voice inside me says "No, let Romney be the candidate, he's not electable").

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I explored downtown today.  Much of it was rather blah, though I did get a really nice long walk in.

There was, however, one shining gem.  The Eugene Public Library was AWESOME.  It was MOBBED with people.  I ran into somebody from my dojo there and he said that the library was normally mobbed and is really Eugene's living room.

Physicists like their theories to be what they call "local".  By local, we mean that interactions between entities occur where the objects meet in space and time.  For example, if you swing a bat at a baseball, then we prefer to have our physics agree with what we observe and the ball continues on whatever trajectory it was originally on until it ( Read more... )

My father, of all sources, told me about a free peer-to-peer music downloading site that's going to be coming online in about 5 minutes (midnight eastern time).  It's called qtrax and will be available for PCs in a few minutes (using WMP, I think) and will be ready for Mac OS X on March 18th.  This could be big.

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University of Washington researchers are working on a contact lens that can provide an overlay display.  This is probably a few years from useful, but I can't wait for them to be affordable and sync with whatever portable computer I'll be carrying around at that point.

Also, scientists at Duke have developed a system such that monkeys can control a ( Read more... )

The Looney Labs game night was a great success.  It made my weekend awesome.  Hooray for social interaction.  Now for some minor cleanup and back to the HW.

Now for a quick look at the scoreboard.

Dash: 3147956
The Universe: Infinity (order = Aleph 2)

I'm catching up...

Awesome Bookstore in an old church.

OMSI is putting on "Science Pubs" where scientists go out to local pubs and talk about their science in an informal setting.  This sounds like it could be really interesting if you want to go hang out with some friends and learn about how sex influences social bonding in bonobos or some other cool topic.  The above link is to the list of topics.

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I'm heading to Portland later today and will be there until the 2nd or 3rd.  I should be able to finish up my project for DJG while I'm there.

I have gotten some important things done in the past few days.  This makes me feel good.

I'm going to go for a walk up the hill near my house and take some pretty picture of Eugene.