The cold is now heading into a sinus infection. :(

while running around earlier I had a mcmuffin. Now I've got mcheartburn. mcpayback for mcjunkfood. mcbleh.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20354669
Meat-eaters "easily cheat, lie, forget promises and commit sex crimes", according to a controversial school textbook available in India.

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TAURID METEOR SHOWER: Earth is passing through a stream of gravelly debris from Comet Encke, source of the annual Taurid meteor shower. Because the debris stream is not very congested, Taurid meteor rates are low, no more than 5 per hour. The special thing about Taurids is that they tend to be fireballs. Check Read more... )

It's been cool here lately - 50s in the day, brrrrr at night. The cameras at MojaveHome had been misbehaving, but for whatever reason, this morning the interface was reset and working properly. The logs don't show anything out of the ordinary. It seems to overload when there's rain - and rain looks pretty cool in infrared ( Read more... )

25 what?.... I'm not... THAT old!!?

Happy 25th Reunion!

Do you remember hiking to class through the misty redwoods? Those "a ha" moments when you felt your mind grow and your concept of the world change? The classmates, the close friends, and the professors who supported you along the way?

Now is the perfect moment to reconnect with UC Santa ( Read more... )

Hmm. I wonder how long until the doctor says "you've got a nasty infection there, here, take 3 cockroach brains every 4 hours for 10 days..."

This investigation was supported by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute and by the Puffin Foundation. Elements of it appear in Palast’s new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps (Seven Stories). Research assistance by Zach D. Roberts, Ari Paul, Nader Atassi and Eric Wuestewald ( Read more... )

I was copying videos to a fat32 file system. It hit one that was just over 4GB. The error caused the "speed graph" to wildly misreport the copy speed as 1,698,762 GB/Sec.

That would be a heck of a trick with USB!