So That’s What All The Brown Stuff In The Mississippi Is …
Posted on March 30, 2005 - Filed Under new orleans, science & technology | Leave a Comment
From Natural Resources Conservation Service
Upon request from some of our local teachers, I thought I would run this article again. This is an excellent classroom activity for any age.
There are times that I am called upon to give teachings of conservation to schools throughout Grant County. I learned this simple but profound lesson from our […]
Cephalopods Rule!
Posted on March 25, 2005 - Filed Under geology, science & technology | Leave a Comment
From scientific and human standpoints, cephalopods mesmerize me. Hands down (no pun intended), they are the coolest creatures ever. All the way from extinct ammonoids and the graceful spiral that consitutes their fossilized exteriors to modern squids and octopi with their watching eyes and ever-ready tentacles.
The revelation that the octopus is […]
Guilty On The Charge of Unoriginality
Posted on March 25, 2005 - Filed Under funny, movies/tv | Leave a Comment
“It’s a lot cheaper to rehash what’s already been done than to come up with new material.” Yet another stoicism that issued forth from D’s mouth, this time over my complaint of How In Entertainment’s Name Can NBC Rip Off The Office? The original is a work of comic art whose transcendence ought […]
Read More..>>Wisconsin-India-Mathematics Combo - Tasty!
Posted on March 23, 2005 - Filed Under desi / india, science & technology, wisconsin | 2 Comments
Srinivasa Ramanujam’s classic number theory puzzle has been solved, by a University of Wisconsin* graduate student no less. Yes, a Badger by the name of Ken Mahlburg just proved why prime numbers have congruences by proving that the crank (read the article) can be extended to all primes. Richard Askey, UW-Madison emeritus math […]
Read More..>>Mallacht
Posted on March 21, 2005 - Filed Under funny | 2 Comments
Create your own Irish curse!
This is mine:
Go gcreime na gráinneoga cealgrúnacha do thóin bheagmhaitheasach !
(May malevolent hedgehogs gnaw at your worthless butt!)
Anon, A Poem By Shakespaw
Posted on March 21, 2005 - Filed Under funny | Leave a Comment
Now that spring is upon us … well, at least here …
Hamlet’s Cat’s Soliloquy
To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to remain within: that is the question:
Whether ’tis better for a cat to suffer
The cuffs and buffets of inclement weather
That Nature rains on those who roam abroad,
Or take a nap upon a scrap of […]
In Of Body Experience
Posted on March 18, 2005 - Filed Under desi / india, food & drink, music | Leave a Comment
One hand clutched a pebble and the other lovingly guided a spoonful of rice, rasam and beans curry into my waiting mouth. With the strains of Sasha’s Airdrawndagger lifting higher and higher and my father patiently waiting for his daughter’s assessment of this midday meal, my perch was a place higher than heaven. […]
Read More..>>Titim Gan Eiri Ort!
Posted on March 17, 2005 - Filed Under funny | 1 Comment
A Gaelic phrase meaning “May you fall without rising” which could have been coined only for tonight. My love for all things Irish began in the mid-1990s when I discovered the cave-like Murphy’s on Green St. (UIUC) and that dark elixir of strength and vitality. It also helps when every person of Irish […]
Read More..>>Bush Official Countermands 2nd Amendment
Posted on March 17, 2005 - Filed Under government | 6 Comments
From CNN:
President Bush on Tuesday expressed the hope that Hezbollah - which the U.S. State Department has long regarded as a terrorist group - could enter the political mainstream in Lebanon. ‘We view Hezbollah as a terrorist organization,’ Bush said at a news conference with Jordan’s King Abdullah II… ‘First things first,’ the senior Bush […]
We Live So Fast
Posted on March 15, 2005 - Filed Under computing & internet, geology, new orleans, science & technology | Leave a Comment
At long last, the move to a new team is upon me. Relinquishing the active role of Virtual Reality maven in these here parts, I am moving up in the world. Literally, I am moving up 12 floors to rediscover my geoscientific roots in a freshly-minted team of explorers and developers. Never […]
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