Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 31st, 2006
Ice Cube neutrino detector
Sometimes high-end particle science is a little bit weird, and sometimes it is very weird indeed. These wild and crazy guys are drilling into Antarctic ice to use it as a neutrino detector. That’s what you sometimes have to do, I guess: drill up to 2.5 km deep into the ice at the South Pole […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Seriously, I do other things than watch HDTV
I also play video games. My brother Mike asked about the new TV, and I sent him a summary too good to hide in email. Some of this was covered in previous posts, but what the heck. It’s a Digimate 37″ TV. We got it at Future Shop for $1500. It was sort of an […]
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Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Hi Def and illness
So here I am, home sick, trying mostly not to infect my co-workers. So I have a lot of time to watch TV. You know which TV station rocks HDTV? Really does it right, with nearly full-day programming that I love watching? PBS. Yep, that’s right. Most of the “HD” feeds from the major networks, […]
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
A wonderful, magical animal
Gene-mod Bacon that’s high in Omega-3 fatty acids. Bonus creepiness that will bother you, but not me: the gene donor was the roundworm C. elegans. þ: Mr. Reynolds
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Why have I not heard of John Milius before?
So I’m rereading Evan Kirchoff’s Oscar movie analysis (very good), mainly to remember why I didn’t think much of “Good Night and Good Luck,” since that was the movie of choice tonight. At the end of that bit, he suggests an alternate director: “John Milius, circa 1984.” I’ll spare you the link-checking. That would be […]
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Cherry Blossoms
Cherry Blossoms Originally uploaded by rcousine. I wanted to post a bunch of photos of wet cherry blossoms, but thought that would be way too self-indulgent for the Vancouver metblog. Then I remembered: I have my own blog, and it’s totally self-indulgent! So now I inflict a bunch of photos of wet cherry blossoms on […]
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
The dog likes peanut butter
The dog likes peanut butter Originally uploaded by rcousine. Maybe the dog likes peanut butter a little more than is good for it.
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Sunday, March 12th, 2006
"interestingly-doomful"
I will treasure Tim Bray’s description of my writing forever (in internet time, that’s two weeks).
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
HDTV: better than having a life
Hi Def is changing my viewing habits. I may return to network television, because high definition content is so compelling, I have started selecting it over shows I actually like. Case in point: I am currently watching the Oscars. Normally the stupidest awards show possible, in high definition, it is nearly delightful. If nothing else, […]
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Sunday, March 5th, 2006
HDTV is about to ruin my life
I couldn’t bear to have a spiffy TV without anything to show on it, so I ponied up $200 for Starchoice’s HD receiver. After satisfactorily attaching it to the TV and the receiver, I wondered how normal people dealt with this: it was tricky, and presented several interesting choices, plus one dead end: it turns […]