I learned something yesterday!
I was looking at the bee specimens at the Science Center, hoping to see the one I got an awesome shot of earlier this year. Turns out I got a bee mimic. Some kind of fly. The eyes are bigger, the antenna are totally different (bees are more conventional, mine has those nifty blobby things) and bees have two pairs of ( Read more... )

Today, I finally got around to getting a membership at the Pacific Science Center. Now I can visit the butterflies any time I want! Also, I look forward to finding out if laser shows are as guilty a pleasure as I think they're going to be. I also took advantage of this to get a discount on Mission Impossible 4 at the IMAX (which actually isn't much ( Read more... )

There's a fair amount of talk going on right now about rogue planets wandering about between the stars. None of this surprises me in the least, because when I was high school physics, we had to mess around with a solar system building program. It was THE BANE OF MY HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. Even the physics nerds were getting frustrated with it. Every ( Read more... )

While looking up maps of Glacial Lake Missoula, I ended up on a Creation Science webpage ( Read more... )

Scored myself a 10$ tripod at Aladdin's Antiques, along with a couple old, old sf mags for 5$ each.

Saturday night, Saturn is mine! Bwa ha aha!

I got my galileoscope in the mail today. Assembling it myself was satisfying, and holding the crystal clear lenses was an unexpected thrill ( Read more... )

According to a guide we're printing ("Living With Heart Failure"), the exertion of sex is equivalent to walking up two flights of stairs at a moderate pace.

So geeky, it hurts.

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