Scientists detect gravity waves for the first time ever. It's such a cool time to be alive. Wow.

K.

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/ppersons2_n2/oration.htmlRead more... )

So often, history seems...distant. Like...there's no 'heros' or great people or...excitement. I mean, we can't go be pirates (except on South Park), there's no knights, there's no dragons to slay, it's rare to come across someone taking hostages with a knife when you have a gun in your pocket, it makes...history seem like...stories. Like adventure ( Read more... )

Thank you for helping me grieve, when I haven't been able to for years now. You were such a wonderful man.

K.

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=10028

K.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/minced-oath.html

It's a whole new take on Scooby-Doo, for me...

K.

I have an update coming, just haven't had time to write it. Because working 12 hour days, 6 days a week. #livingthedream

WWII Japanese war criminals

You're just not seeing it, because you have a blind spot.Now that bash.org isn't updated any more, my newest crack-source is http://www.xkcdb.com/Read more... )

http://mentalfloss.com/article/52108/7-tips-keeping-your-man-1950s

For ditzydana1

K.

Regmaglypts I learned a new word today!

Hey baby, let's take horse tranquilizers and go back to my house. We can fuck like two snails on a December morning in Alaska."       It occurs to me that the American polity has a unique opportunity to break the two party system lock right now. As the GOP gets more and more extreme, rational, sane, semi- ( Read more... )

So, as you might remember, I'm a huge wikipedia addict. It is like crack for the trivia geek in me. And the knowledge vampire. One of my interests is atmospheric reentry, like the physics of bouncing off the atmosphere, verus burning up in it, versus making it through alive (which requires a much slower speed than we use, for some reason I haven't ( Read more... )