The last week, for various aspects that are too private to go into in this forum, was not the best for either Morgan or myself. We needed a good weekend, and I think we got it.

Morgan was volunteering at Boston GLASS for an event on Friday after which he came to the Flat. We got up Saturday morning and I introduced him to Star Wars. It turns out ( Read more... )

Is LiveJournal dying for me? That would be scary after more than 10 years. I've been doing LiveJournal more continously than virtually everything else in my life.  I know I'll never do Twitter because its simply too short. But Facebook as the ability to do long posts, so...

Damn social media.

And what's worse is that I'm trying the "Rich Text" method ( Read more... )

Or, in my case "The Thrill of Victory, and the Agony of Being a Complete, Moronic, Stupid, Idiot, Greedy, PUTZ ( Read more... )

I've been blogging here for slightly more than 10 years now. This month is only my 2nd blog entry, which is unprecedented. Am I migrating to FaceBook with its shorter, but still far more meaningful than 140 (or whatever) characters? I don't know. We'll see ( Read more... )

The Messicks have had a proper, yearly refuge for as long as the Messick and Cleary families have been intertwined. At Lake Sunapee, NH, most of the Messick girls have been here, yearly, from birth. The tradition is in its now third generation as the girls get married, have kids, and bring their families here, always the 1st week of August. The ( Read more... )

It is now my pleasure to be able to announce that Minor Planet (40463) Frankkameny now has its own official Wikipedia entry!

So, the press has been awash in stories about (40463) Frankkameny. But what about its namesake? Who was Dr. Frank Kameny? Well, yes, Frank does have an entry in that "Repository of All Human Knowledge," Wikipedia. But now a video biography of sorts has been made by one of my colleagues and fellow member of the Task Force that created the Working ( Read more... )

Last Friday I posted a cryptic announcement that something wonderful had happened, but that the news was under embargo for a few days. I was trying to get in touch with some of Dr. Frank Kameny's friends so that they, really, would know the news first. That was done a few hours ago ( Read more... )

One final comment [about 4 July's Higgs-like boson announcement]. It did not escape my attention that the mostly European LHC team made this announcement on July 4th. If the U.S. Congress had continued funding the Superconducting Supercollider in the 1990s, yesterday’s discovery would have been made a decade ago, and most of the glory would have ( Read more... )

You know, those of us paying any sort of attention don't wonder why this nation is in decline. I present you the following ( Read more... )