Various thoughts on a Monday.

Thought #1

I was with my Rotary club working both the National Night Out event and a festival in Darien. I was struck by some of the outfits people wore to the various events.

Thought #2

Via my LinkedIn feed, I found this site: Google Project Sunroof. It allows you to put in your street address and get an ( Read more... )

We won at trivia last night, and ate for free, enjoying the fruits of our previous victories. Herewith have some links to celebrate. (Yeah, you get the party you paid for.)

A) Jim C. Hines discusses The Politics of Comfort. Jim's point is that most if not all writing has a political content. The money quote:When Ann Leckie chose to write about ( Read more... )

With my grandmother's illness and death, I've made several trips to Central Illinois over the past few weeks. The drive there and back is not especially scenic, consisting mostly of corn and soybean fields. In order to at least look at different fields, I've varied my trips to include taking Illinois 49 for part of the way ( Read more... )

From baron-waste I get this article which claims that solar panels could destroy US utilities. Basically, the argument is ( Read more... )

Like the label on the tin says:

1) An interesting take on how men and women can (and do) view the same event through different lenses.

2) This guy seems to think that humanity can't live without Earth dirt. Not sure how much dirt Eskimos are exposed to, but the bottom line is we'll only know for sure by trying to live in space ( Read more... )

They say three things make a post, so:

1) John J. Lumpkin's eagerly-awaited (by me, at least) second book, The Desert of Stars, is now available on Amazon.


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Thanksgiving dinner this year will probably be at Central DuPage Hotel Hospital, and I'll be the help desk at work Friday. All of that means Link Salad today! (Yeah, I know there's a few logical inconsistencies there, just go with it.)

1) No, Rand, there is no 'ban' on incandescent light bulbs.

2) The Federal deficit is falling at the fastest ( Read more... )

Comment The First

From Jay Lake jaylake I get this: artificial leaf is 10 times as efficient as nature. The article makes a radical claim: the chip [the size of a deck of cards] could produce enough electricity to power a house in a developing country for an entire day. Since the device works by generating hydrogen, it would allow the power to be ( Read more... )

I'm working, and the links just keep piling up, so:

A) A sentimental link for space geeks The day Robert Goddard dreamed of taking a rocket to Mars.

B) An interesting article on how the Republic of Venice managed to self destruct and interesting parallels with the current United States of AmericaC) I've long thought that deep underground mining ( Read more... )

Like the label on the tin says:

A) The title says it all: How I Lost My Fear of Universal Health Care.

B) What's really killing the US coal industry: cheap natural gas. Gas turbine plants burning natural gas are cleaner, cheaper to run and at the moment natural gas is cheaper per megawatt produced than coal.

C) This post has some interesting ( Read more... )