Today is warmer, it is raining, and after all that snow and cold, it is very slippery out. There's an over cast. The snow is very dirty. The place looks dingy, especially in those neighborhoods down town that are dingy all the time anyway. When you drive through the really old part of down town, old houses in the city, the kind that have no front ( Read more... )

Today it snowed again. Two days of a snow storm. On PBS we learned that a rotten egg will float in water and that eggs should keep for 3 or 4 weeks if kept in their original container - never knew that, before. Heard an interview on NPR with someone called Nellie McKay who was enchanting and sung a song about zombies that was funny ( Read more... )

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Today I noticed on youtube ppl juxtaposing steampunk (weak, hopelessly artsy steampunk) with rockand/orroll music. I'm going to presume that in Heaven I get to jump up and down on their necks until I'm all tuckered out.

I mean, I don't see the problem with just stopping and saying, hence forth we will call an excess of electrons a positive charge of electrons. We could say, "positive electrons" or "positive protons" or "negative electrons" or "negative electrons" meaning a surplus or deficiency of one or the other. This would be simple, wouldn't involve any ( Read more... )

So hard to avoid.

Someone should invent one. It incorporates the wonderful quality of water having a high specific heat. And it doesn't use the mains. Of course this means someone has already thought of it and all I have to do is google it... but carefully, for I have observed that an original idea put into a keyword search gets noticed...

Ok, so, the waves are really really tiny.

When I was a kid I like to end my roller coaster rides yelling, "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" 

Once the shock of reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the fifth time in a row wears off, some readers may be wondering what they can read next. So why not start a meme of suggestions? So here are the rules:

1. You must copy and paste the directions, rules, and the list so far into your blog and then add three (and only three) books to ( Read more... )