What a treat! My thanks to DC for sending me the link to this, and a big hat tip to Watts Up With That? for posting a link to it. The website firstmenonthemoon.com has assembled an “experience it as it happened” opportunity as you watch video footage from the first orbital lander synced with the dialog … Continue reading
Well, time to eat some crow… I sit here in a hotel in Akron, looking forward to the Spokesman Club Ladies Event tomorrow morning, and typing this blog post on my new iPad using a wireless keyboard. My negative feelings about the iPad (I quote my first review in full: “Bleh. It’s just a giant … Continue reading
Wow. Here I am transferring stuff from my old iPhone to my new, shiny iPhone 5 and thinking, “Wow, what an amazing little device.” Then, along comes this video in my Inbox, putting me in my place… [Hat tip to DC in Dallas & The Kim Komando Show!]
A quick warning: Apparently a boat load of e-mails went out from somewhere last night or early this morning that said they were from me but they were not. They used an old (old, old, old) AT&T e-mail address I used to have. I have no idea where all the address came from, but I … Continue reading
Well, I’ve officially declared my old TI-30X IIS as living impaired. It is gone, awaiting the Great Calculator Resurrection (which will never happen, in the event you were curious–calculator religions are notorious for being completely false). You were a good calculator, TI-30X IIS. I first met you when the Society of Actuaries approved you for … Continue reading
The article on Yahoo News yesterday (actually from, Space.com) about discoveries making physicist Miguel Alcubierre’s concept of a warp drive was exciting to read. You can check it out here: “Warp Drive May Be More Feasible Than Thought, Scientists Say” (Space.com, 9/17/2012). (As a side note, I can see the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto … Continue reading
Well, that depends. ABC News reports today that America’s incredibly expensive F-22 Raptor has been pitted against Europe’s Typhoon in combat simulations (simulations involving real flying, real pilots, and real aircraft, just not real missiles or bullets) and has found that the results are mixed, though not surprisingly so. In the ways the F-22 was … Continue reading
Well, word is that the recent CERN experiments that showed neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light may be flawed, possibly by an uncalibrated fiber optic cable. This should not be too much of a surprise, as the speed of light as a limit has been so thoroughly tested and demonstrated that it was much more likely that the … Continue reading
My old iPhone 3GS died earlier this year and, knowing that it had been dropped a few too many times anyway, we got a new iPhone 4 (as did my Beautiful Wife, who was, at the time, still using a phone based on can-and-string technology). I kept the old guy, though. The only problem was that … Continue reading
Well, after mentioning it about a year ago, I’ve finally posted an FAQ page! My thanks to everyone who contributed questions and my apologies for taking so long. I’d noted things down for it from time to time but never got around to actually putting it up. It can now be accessed among the other … Continue reading
