How does special relativity, speaking about frames of reference, survive when space-time geometry is an emergent phenomenon ? meaning (perhaps) that large-scale frames-of-reference are also emergent, not a fundamental thing.

www.gaystarnews.com/article/mother-writes-foul-response-birthday-party-invite-kid-gay-dads130214 ( Read more... )

loft-living = lift-loving ?

And 1st world annoyance of the day: Why does the theme-song to Scrubs go "I'm no supermarn" ? Sounds as ridiculous as the series itself (note to self: get a job, to avoid staying at home, watching bad TV all the time).

Well --- how did you vote ?

On datingsites, I sometimes see people listed as being 5 feet, 12 inches ... Uhm, why isn't that simply 6 feet ???

Makes as much sense as this: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2009/02/18 :-)

Every now and then, one hears straight, homophobic men (it usually seems to be men ?) criticize gay marriage by arguing "Next, I'll be allowed to marry my goat" (or something similar). Usually something involving animals. What is wrong with that argument ? What can another person provide, which animals cannot ? That's right: informed consent. By ( Read more... )

Having trouble with this new bluetooth speaker I bought a week ago: Every now and then it would seemingly lock up, the touch-buttons for volume and track navigation and even the power button becoming completely unresponsive to the point where it couldn't even be turned off. While this would be going on, the speaker would be bluetoothing track-next ( Read more... )

Thursday Aug 22nd, I went to Block66, a new gay place in Cph, for their "Cobearhagen goes instinct" party, a part of the Cobearhagen series of events. The place was rather small, but not many bears turned up anyway (and the dancefloor was empty). I didn't recognize many of the bears, most were already in pairs or groups, and I didn't feel like ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago (or so), I bought an Apple USB charger, their 1A european model (Model A1300 ( Read more... )

Why don't they allow anyone to answer their questions ? WTF ?

http://xkcd.com/386/ (<--- that's me)