In my years of reading through the blogosphere, my proudest moment has to be the one in which Jim Henley quoted me. He hasn't done so recently, but last night he might as well have:[Steven] Weinberg makes a plausible-sounding case that the Mars program, vaporware or not, is already cutting into NASA's science budget. He misses the obvious ( Read more... )

No pretty pictures with this one. From The New York Times:Can the Heavens Wait?
By MICHAEL BENSONAbout two-and-a-half miles above the Pacific, the world's biggest observatory complex dominates the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Among other instruments at this site are the Kecks, the largest optical telescopes in the world; each possesses a mirror ( Read more... )

Because nothing is so indicative of my well-being as the speed with which I do the crossword, my no-longer-mysterious numbers have been shifted to the "Current Mood" field.

Actually, I don't think that "4:34" quite fully conveys how pissed off I am about this. I haven't yet seen anything about it on my blogstroll -- I keep checking the c's, ( Read more... )