Archive for April, 2008

The Difference of Twenty-​​Four Hours

I’d like to take credit for this, but I can’t. Las Vegas didn’t make their smog go away overnight because I advised them to do so yes­ter­day. The real cause? Twenty-​​​​four hours of steady south­west­erly wind, approx­i­mately 20 MPH, with gusts to 40. It will be back, though.

Hey Vegas…

…what’s hap­pen­ing there is most cer­tainly not stay­ing there any more. This is a doppler image from this morn­ing, show­ing the fug of smog and shit spew­ing out of Sin City. My own locale is com­pletely occulted by the crap. The brown shit in my skies is the result of the filth ooz­ing out of Las Vegas. […]

Dumping Pandagon

Ordinarily I don’t men­tion when I un-​​​​roll another blog, but I thought I should go into why I’m not fol­low­ing Pandagon any more. The warn­ing signs came a few months ago when Amanda was still push­ing for Edwards. At one point in an entry, she was dis­pens­ing advice on how to affect pri­maries so Edwards would have a stronger show­ing — overall […]

Kids’ Day 2008

The hos­pi­tal here has an annual health fair called Kids’ Day, some­thing attended by about 800+ kids and their fam­i­lies. There are inter­est­ing exhibits, lots of infor­ma­tion from health ven­dors, and the kids can get their hear­ing and vision checked, as well as puppy shots. Given the rural set­ting, odds are pretty good that this […]

Of COURSE it Won’t Work

Because it already didn’t hap­pen. A West Coast sci­en­tist who believes it may be pos­si­ble to trans­mit infor­ma­tion back­wards through time has been funded by indi­vid­ual dona­tions after estab­lished mad-​​​​scientist groups refused to cough up. Um … um … estab­lished mad-​​​​scientist groups? Oh right, them. ANYway, if we could send a mes­sage back in time, we could […]