Random Acts of Verbiage

Thanksgiving weekend Sal introduced me to Firefly, a wonderful Western/Sci-Fi/Cool tv series that, as per usual, Fox cancelled well before its time. Oddly, as I was writing this post, Instapundit just posted on his enthusiasm for Firefly. If Glenn Reynolds is on board, maybe we can start a revolution! Firefly is the brainchild of Joss [...]

The original Instapundit? June, 1983: Yes, that’s right, my first blog really started back in 1983. Well, maybe not, but that was when I officailly became a nerd. The first computer I used was one from the Apple ][ line and boy was it good times. I could make the turtle (a triangle) go up, [...]

Week from Hell

This weekend was, of course, the opening of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire so I made the trek down to Seattle (who care about papers?) to catch the flick at the IMAX with some good friends. I really enjoyed the movie. Of course the left much out of the book but did well [...]

Yes, it is only Friday, but it has been a few weeks since I have posted a Space Saturday and I will be gone this weekend, so there is no time like the present! This week I bring you another of my favoriate astronomy photos: Abell 1689. Credit: NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (The [...]

“All your base are belong to us” is a cult net phrase that was poorly translated from a Japaneese video game that essentially meant “we have taken over your base (or empire).” In the light of that, I bring you Base.Google. Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online [...]