Yesterday, I had a discussion with a person I shall not name. After seeing many of the same same social media statements that I saw, this person asked how I came to my conclusion that this was celebration about inclusion, and not about exclusion. That’s a very good question, because… Continue reading
With the recent Nebula Awards ceremony now in the past, I’m reflecting on the chatter in social media about the fact that no white males won a voter-selected award this year. In fact, one tweet cheered in nearly those exact words: No white males! Hopefully we’re beyond blog excerpts now… Continue reading
Politics Trumps Science There has been a lot of climate change news with the recent issue of yet another climate change report underscoring the dangers of anthropogenic climate change due mainly to release of CO2 into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels. Short-sighted politicians swayed by even shorter-sighted… Continue reading
I’ve been going through the entire catalog of Rush’s studio albums to hear how the band evolved and then I give my impression of each album. Today, Power Windows. Power Windows If I had to point to an album to represent the cliche of not judging a book by the… Continue reading
What, you thought this was about heading to the VFW on Friday evening? Nah, just an update on the hatching activity in my fishroom. + Poecilia wingei (Endler’s livebearer, peacock strain) Three new fry swimming around with the adults. Nice to see this colony starting to recover a bit. +… Continue reading
One of the cool things about keeping killifishes is that most people know nothing about them. These creatures are quite a bit tougher to keep than the mass-bred fishes you can get at the big box stores. Many of them are annuals, meaning their lifespan is somewhere between 10 and… Continue reading
I started rollerblading during the last part of December 2013. I started on Schwinn skates that I picked up for $5 at Goodwill, figuring if I didn’t like it, nothing lost. If I did like it, I could always get better skates. I told myself that if I’m still using… Continue reading
Funny how things happen sometimes. My daughter brings home movie passes from time to time as a benefit of working at the theater. So, just a few hours after writing yesterday’s blog entry about science and faith, I was on my way to see the film God’s Not Dead. I’m… Continue reading
Along with the doubt about human-caused global warming comes doubt in another accepted science axiom. Consider this quote taken from the pages of the Seattle Times, specifically this article on skepticism of the Big Bang. “Science ignorance is pervasive in our society, and these attitudes are reinforced when some of… Continue reading
The internet package was upgraded from 1 M to 12 M. (They haven’t installed the infrastructure for Prism in our area yet, so this is as fast as we can get for now.) The modem arrived about five hours after the tech stopped by the house and made the changes… Continue reading
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