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• Devils Slide May 18, 2013
  An interesting geological phenomenon east of Ogden, Utah. Photographed a week or so ago on my way home. What you’re seeing is the result of land that has been uplifted in such a way that previously horizontal terrain has been tipped about 90 degrees; horizontal layers are now vertical. The layers are of differing hardness; […]
• The 17 Creepiest Cats You Meet On OkCupid May 17, 2013
  OK, now this is funny stuff right here… The 17 Creepiest Cats You Meet On OkCupid Example: 13. The overly confident show off. […]
• What’s out there? May 17, 2013
  Fingers and Buttons keeping an eye on the birds… […]
• Those Were The Days May 17, 2013
  Yesterday a friend of mine mentioned that she had gone into a store that was playing the song “Those Were The Days” by Mary Hopkin, and that the song had become lodged in her head. Because this is what one does, I looked up the song on Wikipedia. Of all the factoids the article has, […]
• Lunar Impact May 17, 2013
  Bright Explosion on the Moon On May 17 a small rock hit Mare Imbrium and was detected visually. At ~40 kg and 56,000 miles per hour, the impact energy was about 5 tons TNT equivalent, and would have been visible to the naked eye. I suspect that a similar impact on Earth would have been […]
• Three-billion year old water… and maybe bacteria May 17, 2013
  Scientists find ancient water on earth cut off for THREE BILLION years. In short: Earth was doomed today when it was announced that pockets of water trapped for up to three billion years two miles below the surface of Ontario, Canada, have been tapped into via boreholes. Chemicals in the water suggest it may harbor […]
• Ouch May 16, 2013
  If you are the captain of a US Navy ship, this is the sort of bridge audio recording you do *not* want anywhere near your career:   […]
• This is how you do it May 16, 2013
  If someone invades your home, there are really only two good outcomes. The first and most obvious is the outcome that results from the homeowner centerpunching the invader with something along the lines of a .45 or a 12 gauge, though there are the obvious problems of the mess. The other optimal ending is the […]
• Has Obama gone buggo? May 16, 2013
  Regardless of your views on Obamas policies and ideology, one thing that can’t really be denied is that he was pretty much wholly unprepared to become President. A little while in the Senate  following a basically contest-free election, following a little while in the Illinois senate, characterized by voting “present” a lot, followed by no […]
• Vellum cyanotype blueprint prototypes May 15, 2013
  I’ve made many test runs and made considerable progress. I’ve also run out of supplies and need to improve the mechanical infrastructure. so I’ve decided to sell the “prototypes” I’ve made. These are indeed  prototypes, and more to the point they are prototypes of art, so they are imperfect and variable… but they’re nevertheless pretty […]