Posts from ‘February, 2008’

Online I found an old paper I wrote in college, many moons ago. The crazy part is that it was on SchoolSucks.com, a website that I glanced at once or twice out of desperation back in the day, but never bothered to plagiarize from because I knew it was supremely stupid to copy material from [...]

Mmm. Oh YEAH!
Six wheel drive. Active suspension. Low-rider mods. And it comes in gold. Bling! Sounds like my kind of truck. Too bad Nasa’s new space toy, the lunar truck prototype won’t be hitting the retail market!
This thing is so hot it makes my piston surfactants simmer. Six sexy long gold legs, a drivers’ seat [...]

Diamonds are somewhat rare on earth, but apparently space is littered with them, and the Spitzer Space Telescope is perfect for looking for them.
Before you get too giddy and have spectacular visions of finding out if isometric-hexoctahedral crystal lattice carbon allotropes are an extraterrestrial space babe’s best friend, keep in mind that the glittering stardust [...]

Today at the office someone asked me if I was looking forward to seeing the new Star Trek movie. My answer was immediate and definite: No. Why? Because Star Trek stopped being fun a long time ago, when it got all serious and stopped being about searching the universe looking for more places to have [...]

I’ve heard a lot of chatter over Toshiba’s planned departure from HD-DVD– “OMFG what now? Is Blu-ray the only one left now? WTF?” Like all new technologies, some styles make it, some don’t. Betamax was obliterated by VHS. Nobody wants to watch movies on delicate, double-sided discs the size of my dad’s original vinyl copy [...]