Cold-fusion researcher Martin Fleischmann was reported today to have died.

Doubt was cast on this report, because no other researchers have been able to replicate this result.

I've decided that  the computer data "cloud" requires a good acronym.

Continually
Losing
Our
User
Data

I won't go near this flawed fad.

I just saw that researchers have detected chocolate on a 2500 year old Mexican plate.

Sadly, not much more information will be revealed, as they left it unattended for a moment, and it was licked clean by a 2500 year old Mexican cat.

A little while back, I got a new version of iPhoto that had the Faces technology. It was pretty random until it had a larger base of images to work from, then got pretty good at identifying people ( Read more... )

In a discussion today, the question came up - what UNUSUAL phrase do you expect to appear in your obituary some day?

I thought that "dangerously overloaded bookshelves" might do the trick for me. And you?

While browsing for some family obituary data, I found this gem.
If only he had been born in our day and age, he would have had his own television show...
No, I did not make any of this up.

May 22, 1885
Clinton Public

Death of an Eccentric Man.

Samuel NUTT died in Farmer City yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock. Mr. Nutt had been sick for some time but ( Read more... )

I was on YouTube and typed "kitten" into the search and got 132,000 hits. Not long ago, my son suggested that eventually everyone would have continuous digital storage of everything they saw - my reply was that "the number of funny cat videos on YouTube would soar."

I fixed up my old bicycle last fall, and rode it to work for a while. And by old, I mean 1982. But it wasn't a piece of junk, and still worked fine. I however, have degraded some since 1982, and I found that the narrow tires, stiff frame and hard seat were beating me up pretty good. So I went out today a bought a new one -- with wide tires, shock ( Read more... )

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Well, how else would YOU celebrate Precedence Day?

What does the school board say when they turn down a petition to eliminate religious music from the Christmas program?

“Yes, we ban no hosannas. We ban no hosannas today.”