Archive for April, 2008
The cloning genie is out of the bottle. Unless you can get a global shutdown, it’s not going away. And you won’t get a global shutdown. For this reason, it would probably behoove us to take a good hard look at it, at what it can do for us, and what pitfalls [...]
An almost-cliche in science fiction is vat food. Meat – or “meat” – that’s never been what you’d call an animal.
Not a digression, but I have a dislike of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) – and the reason is the extremism. Anything that isn’t allowing every animal to live a long life [...]
I hated canning time when I was growing up. Hot, messy, labor intensive for canning and saltpacking and drying and freezing and… I suspect I’m going to hate it when I start doing it as an adult, too, but at least I’ve been there before and know a couple of the pitfalls. And I will [...]
Rush Limbaugh may have crossed one line too many. We’ll see — it depends, not in small part, what happens over the next couple of months, and especially at the Democratic convention in Denver.
As the left-side blogistan has pointed out a lot recently, Rush advocated for a riot at the convention. Three different sessions, so [...]
Well, I hit the spread. And realized that I’ve not shared how.
Median of the last 30 days of polls, then split the undecideds in the same proportion in primaries like this.
It’s turning out to be a remarkably accurate predictor, though you have to wait to a day or two before the election to get all [...]
Today, Our Fearless Leader said we’re not in a recession, we’re just in a slowdown.
Now he could have gotten away with that if he hadn’t emphasized that last quarter the economy grew. Last quarter was a slowdown, Mr. Bush, with 0.6% real GDP growth. If you are calling that growth and THIS a slowdown… You [...]
Finally realized an analogy – why “space fighters” makes me twitch.
They’re not fighters. They’re dinghies. Powered smallboats. It’s possible – in fact, it’s probable – that they can get greater acceleration (up to pilot tolerances) than the heavy ship that’s carrying them. But their range and capacity are very limited, and using a motorboat as [...]
There are a couple of library director positions opening soon for which I plan to apply. Both would be single county libraries.
Since most of my readers (all half dozen of you – grin) are not in Georgia, allow me to educate you while at the same time gaining a bit of clarity in my [...]
I’ve got some stories in sorta-kinda-started mode. Well, various stages. I’ve sat on them for a few reasons.
Today, I had an epiphany. Well, actually, it was more of a recognition and internalization of things others have told me. No, not the “if you want to write, WRITE” thing. I knew that, and it’s the other [...]
‘m going to meander through a recipe – lots of almost stream of consciousness pondering here, so be warned.
Most of my cooking, I can trace the recipe to a cookbook. It may be an OLD cookbook, but it’s still a cookbook. I’ve got a handful of recipes, though, which I can only call “family recipes”. [...]
