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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Irregular update
So I haven’t been posting enough here, partly owing to my yeoman work at Metroblogging Vancouver and partly because I have been busy with projects. Right now, just for fun, I’m keeping secrets. Maybe you’ll get to hear some of them later, maybe not. Here’s a good one: if I had recently learned of a […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
The stuff coming out of my nose is infuriating
Stupid green snot! You’ve been coming out of my nose for three weeks! Go away! Nobody wants you! Argh! I’m sick of being sick! I’m sick of feeling 80% effective! Anger! Ahem. And a Good Friday to you too.
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006
Turbonique
Thanks to Mr. Coop, I got to read about Turbonique, purveyors of the craziest technology ever to grace 1960s hot-rodding. Independently powered superchargers. Direct-drive 1000-hp auxiliary turbine motors for cars. Rocket-powered go-karts capable of sub-9-second quarter miles with 160+mph trap speeds. It makes me weep with joy just to know this stuff ever existed.
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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.