To waste time on a Friday or a weekend..... http://vimeo.com/deerdog/nightfall Lovely video of Los Angeles at night and quite idealized. http://romneygirl.org/ parody and satire (and I love parody and satire) of Aqua’s “I’m a Barbie Girl” Mr. Rogers remixed, In the Garden of Your Imagination http://all-that-is-interesting.com/tag/beautiful simply beautiful photos. http://artofmanliness.com/2012/07/16/a-man-is-punctual-the-importance-of-being-on-time/ This website should often … Continue reading What the Boss Likes – A small collection of random things
Tag: science
What the Boss Likes – Pennsylvania Geology
Finally some geology. I had been wanted to do a bit about the spectacular geology in Pennsylvania for a while now and finally got around to taking my camera long to take shots of a very nice road cut. Of course, after scrambling up a embankment to get some photos, I find that Google Maps … Continue reading What the Boss Likes – Pennsylvania Geology
Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – The slow slow progress of science
It seems I spend a lot of time trying to explain to my relatives how the scientific method works: observation/idea which creates a hypothesis, which is either confirmed or disproven by observation/experimentation and if proven, becomes a theory (a great explanation in more detail here). A theory, in this case, in the scientific sense, isn’t … Continue reading Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – The slow slow progress of science
Not so polite dinner conversation – It’s on the interwebs so it must be true! – Christian ads claiming to have the “truth”
If you’ve frequented various blogs, especially and ironically the freethought blogs it seems, you will have seen an ad that claims that there are 6 reasons to believe in God at a website called everystudent.com. Being bored, I followed that link and found that the author Marilyn Adamson does indeed give six claims on why she thinks people … Continue reading Not so polite dinner conversation – It’s on the interwebs so it must be true! – Christian ads claiming to have the “truth”
Not so polite dinner conversation – Stay thee back, tides!
Lest anyone be surprised, an economic group seems to be making headway in influencing the North Carolina legislature to ignore reality and to substitute their own. In the complete spirit of anti-intellectualism, the people at NC-20 want to pretend their ignorance is considered just as good as anyone’s knowledge because they have *said* so. Unsuprisingly, this … Continue reading Not so polite dinner conversation – Stay thee back, tides!
Club Schadenfreude 