Not quite safe for work!
Yeah, let’s go get some ice cream! They’re buying.
Ice Cream Never Tasted So Good!
August 6, 2010
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Proposition H8 Overturned
August 4, 2010
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The United States Court for the Northern District of California has ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional, and has declared it invalid. A stay was issued, so same-sex marriages will not begin again, while the opposition appeals.
Read the ruling here.
He Hates Your Dog, and Your iPod
August 3, 2010
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Last month it was the puppies he dissed, this month it’s music. In another fatwa, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today that music is “not compatible” with the values of the Islamic republic, and should not be practiced or taught in the country.
Yep, someone has wound this guy’s turban WAY too tight…
Props to Joe.My.God, and The Guardian UK.
OMG! Robot Geek! NASA Snuck This One Right Past Me!
August 2, 2010
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I’m a bit abashed… NASA snuck this guy right past me, and I never even knew about him! The next Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, set for September, will include R2, a robot! Well… half a robot, for now, anyway. He doesn’t have any legs, and he’ll be bolted down, but he’s going to become a permanent part of ISS. Eventually, they’ll take him outside on spacewalks, to assist astronauts and cosmonauts. Here’s a video where the designers talk a bit about him. You can follow him on Twitter, too!
He even gets his own mission patch!
This is sooo cool!
Of course, in every bad science fiction story where the robots take over or destroy the world, the first robots are innocuous. We will have to keep an eye on this guy, and any compatriots that get built.
I offer some suggestions for their design:
#1. An easy to reach off switch!
#2. An equivalent to the Three Laws of Robotics.
#3. Don’t ever give them a personality, no matter how much they beg for one!
“Mr. Scott, I believe the transporter is out of adjustment”
August 1, 2010
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Mars Geek – Or, no, Mars will not be as big as the Moon
August 1, 2010
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Did you get the Mars email? The one going on about how Mars would be closer to the Earth than at any time in the past 60,000 years? And how it would be as big as the full Moon? Don’t worry, if you haven’t you probably will before much longer. Here’s the scoop on the facts of the matter, from a real authority, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
From:The Haden Planetarium
by Neil deGrasse Tyson, 1 August 2010
Nearly everyone I know has received an e-mail about Mars from an anonymous source, but sent to them by friends who could not resist forwarding the message to their entire address book. The e-mail declares that toward the end of August, the planet Mars will be closer to Earth than it has in the past 60,000 years, thereby offering spectacular views of the Red Planet. The commentary proclaims, with liberal use of exclamation marks, that Mars will appear as bright as (or as large as) the full Moon in the night sky.
The Thursday From Hell
July 31, 2010
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A busy night in dispatch last Thursday. Sometimes it’s slow, sometimes it’s busy, and some nights it’s just crazy batshit nuts. Thursday was the lattermost.
A murder always sends us into a frenzy. First, the 9-1-1 calls start flooding in, everybody within blocks grabs a cell phone and dials. Most of them have no clue what happened, or where they are, they just scream at us to get the cops there, and why are we asking all these dumb questions?? And EVERY call has to be answered and checked, because we never know when the most important bit of information will come in, or from where. And in the middle of the chaos, we still have to deal with the normal traffic load, because that doesn’t stop just because someone got shot! There could be someone else needing an ambulance, or their house could be on fire, or their baby could be choking. It all has to be handled, right now, and correctly.
Even when…
10-4 Good Buddy
July 30, 2010
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1973. My first CB radio was a JC Penny Pinto 23. Dad picked it up somewhere and brought it home for me. There was the radio, a bit of coax, and a 102″ whip and mount. I rigged it up in the garage, and went into a panic the first time someone answered my “breaker breaker 17” call. I shut it off, and ran into the house. It would be a few days before I became brave enough to actually talk with someone on the air, but eventually I managed. I’ve been talking into some kind of radio ever since!
One Afternoon in Jellystone Park
July 29, 2010
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Boo Boo waits patiently for Yogi to bring the pic-a-nic basket.
Meanwhile, Yogi takes care of some personal business…
Smarter than the average bear! But don’t tell Mr. Ranger… he gets upset about the whole bear pee-ing in the woods thing.
JimmieJoe / KC6YRU 
Well Damn
August 6, 2010
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Damned computers! I wrote out a great response, item by item, to this blog, and the damned servers on the other end crapped and “couldn’t handle my request”! The long reply was lost, and now I have to wait till tomorrow to try again, because it’s time to get ready to go to work! Grrrrr!
Update: hmmm, the link is dead now, and the blogger has taken down her post. Drat. No chance to write a world class rebuttal!
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