Webster, NY
Tustin, CA
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Palm Desert, CA
Indio, CA
Concord, CA
San Francisco, CA
Oakland, CA
Webster, NY (again)

Yesterday, my country went from a Scandinavian Liberal Paradise to a Left-Leaning College State-- whatever that is.

The United States of Yesyouamerica

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I just reread Chapter 29 of Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas R. HofstadterI think about this every time I'm caught in traffic. I think about this every time I read the news. Actually, I think about this pretty constantly. I guess the implications of this are really based on your idea of scale when it ( Read more... )

Meme from Cola ( Read more... )

I started off my "Dice Art" kick about three years ago. I started off doing it in Photoshop on a hex template. Eventually, I got sick of the computer crashing on me and I started doing it on actual graph paper with pencils and markers and stuff. After I ruined one of my pieces in the Lemonade Incident, I went back to Photoshopping. The computer ( Read more... )

Check out what I just made!
It's all driven by shell scripts.
It updates four times a day:
7AM PST: "Morning Edition"
Noon PST: "Noon Edition"
5PM PST: "Evening Edition"
10PM PST: "Late Night Edition"
http://whack.org/~yesyouam/news

I bet there will be some Northern Light action tonight.
Things have been pretty active: Estimated Planetary K Index
Be on the lookout in Rochester.
This is a cool site to tell you if you can or can't see the Northern Lights:
Aurora Viewing Tips

This is the kind of article I like to read:
Quantum honeybees - research on honeybee behavior
A mathematician at the U of R couldn't help but notice that you can explain the waggle dance (and the round dance) with a 6-dimensional flag manifold. Does this imply that bees can "see quarks"?

This is a mint quiz.
I love the regional variations of dialects in our country.
I scored:
36% (Yankee). A definitive Yankee.
Well, no crap.
Seven of my responses brought up the phrase "Great Lakes".
Take the quiz now and tell me how you do. (unless you score "Dixie". I just don't need to know about that.)
[Yankee or Dixie?]