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Someone put forward a resolution to set March 14th as National Pi Day.
Ten Republicans voted against it.
Ron Paul was one of them.
I'm confused.
The full text of the resolution behind the cut.
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When I'm able to watch through a pair of binoculars as Venus resolves from a small white smear against the black of night to a thin crescent glow of a planet, I tear up and have to wipe my eyes.
I am both humbled and awestruck by the universe we live in. -
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On a more nerdy note, I threw caution to the wind and overclocked my Intel Pentium D 930 from 3GHz to 3.225 GHz.
Wreckless, I know.
To be honest, I have very little idea of what I'm doing. However, since I'm on the verge of buying an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6660, I figured I'd experiment a little. -
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"5) It's not the biggest object out there in the black
So, I was reading The Bad Astronomer.
For those unaware, The Bad Astronomer is an internet blog hosted by Phil Plait, astronomer, author, and president of the James Randi Educational Foundation ( Read more... ) -
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"Please, Tim, leave room."
Lana [a chimpanzee] monitors her sentences on a computer display, and erases those with grammatical errors. Once, in the midst of Lana's construction of an elaborate sentence, her trainer mischievously and repeatedly interposed, from his separate computer console, a word that made nonsense of Lana's sentence. She gazed ( Read more... )
