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Month: August 2008
Rock Out With Your Hawk Out
Seen tonight, as we were leaving for our evening walk: That is, I believe, one of the neighborhood red-tailed hawks, having killed a rabbit in our next-door neighbor’s back yard. I might be wrong about the “red-tailed hawk” part, but it’s definitely a bird of prey that killed a rabbit next door. Emmy is incredibly […]
Scientific Pub Crawl: A Tour of the Great Discoveries
Over on LiveJournal, Johan Larson has a great discussion topic: Our hero, the time traveling engineer, starts out in 1901, with the goal of working on the coolest engineering projects of the twentieth century. Assuming he knows well the history of technical development during that time, but is not actually allowed to substantially alter history, […]
links for 2008-08-25
Evolving Thoughts: The real Olympic performers "[U]sing the Wikipedia population figures and the official medal tally, I plotted gold medals per million population and medals overall per million population" (tags: sports blogs silly) Why You Should Turn Gmail s SSL Feature On Now – Webmonkey "Browser Connection" in your GMail settings– set it to "Always […]
The Transitive Property
Total strangers keep congratulating me on the birth of SteelyKid. No, not people on the Internet, people in real life. We have a standard dog-walking route that we take Emmy on every night, and Kate and I usually do the evening walk together. Of course, Kate’s not coming along on those now, and now people […]
Curiosity
Curious Baby says “I wonder what happens when I press this?” She’s going to end up a scientist, like her old man…
links for 2008-08-24
DFL: Getting to the Games: A Reality Check "A common misconception — a result, no doubt, of the countless stories about Eddie the Eagle and Eric the Eel — is that it’s not that hard to qualify for the Olympics, if you pick your sports and countries shrewdly." (tags: sports blogs) Methodist advocates evolution | […]
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
“I think so, SteelyKid, but what if the rhinoceros doesn’t want to be milked?”
Memo to Windows Vista
To: Windows Vista From: Chateau Steelypips Please note that when I change your settings, I do it for a reason. You do not need to be aware of the reason, just know that there is one. In particular, when I change the “Windows Update” setting to something other than “Install updates and automatically restart any […]
links for 2008-08-23
Great Olympic moments on YouTube "One of the best ways to watch the Olympics is to chase down all the references made by NBC’s commentators on YouTube and watch them in addition to (or instead of) the regular telecast. " (tags: video sports youtube history)