Sunday on Sep 6, 2008 at 11:14 am
We are here. We are well. We will soon be back to direct transmission status. We miss you.
Saw this ad today that made us laugh because at heart we are old women whose grandchildren set us up computers against our will. Wait, that’s for kitty photos. Well, this is the new kitty photo, just like cyberdolphins are the new pony.
From Dark Roasted Blend.
Sunday on Jul 25, 2008 at 2:09 pm
This interview with American astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th human being to walk on the surface of the moon, has Dr. Mitchell by no means mincing around the subject of alien contact with humans. They are real. They have been here for a long time. He’s not joking and indeed, appears to not have a sense of humor at all.
Try to ignore the sniggering British interviewer and listen instead to a very articulate scientist lay it all out for you.
Note: I deeply respect this man and I’d appreciate if snarky comments were left to a minimum.
Sunday on May 1, 2008 at 11:27 am
The last few days have been a gelatinous blur, caused in large part by the professional quantities of pseudoephedrine employed to stop a mysterious brown jelly from coming from my sinuses. Every attempt I’ve made at being creative has resulted in the same half-sentences of frenetic boredom, if you can imagine such a contradiction.
Also: anyone who says that the replacement chemicals for pseudoephedrine they’ve foisted on the public are in any way equal, I invite them personally to a contest of my choosing. I choose bake-off, incidentally, and a gentlewomanly warning: I will beat your ass so far into the ground your family will need to hire a forensic anthropologist to identify your remains. But the matter remains: pseudoephedrine is a miracle drug, and I imagine that it will soon go the way of every other drug that makes life worth living. It’ll be available only via prescription, which means that anyone who wants any will need to run the gauntlet of suspicious, paranoid doctors who do not believe that educated adults can take care of themselves.
Let’s move on to the giant squid, yes?
The Te Papa Museum of Wellington, New Zealand is far and above the best museum I’ve ever been to, so it comes as no surprise to me that they are now the home of the foremost giant squid of our time, which they refer to charmingly as “The colossal squid.” I think it gives the creature an added respectability.
Photo © unknown/Te Papa’s Blog
They’ve been sporadically blogging the process of unthawing her and then preserving her remains in formalin. Expect photos and direct communications from the scientists examining the squid.