Year: 2008
OPERATIONS DEPT.
Change I Can Believe In
Windypundit is published using the Movable Type blogging engine from Six Apart, and they’ve just released an interesting sounding update. I think I’ll switch to it in the next week or two. I may have to rebuild the templates that create the look and feel of this site, but even if I don’t, I’m getting a… Read more
LGBT DEPT.
“Do you, Party A, take Party B…”
Moby Kip points us to this story by Jennifer Garza of the Sacramento Bee: Last month, Rachel Bird exchanged vows with Gideon Codding in a church wedding in front of family and friends. As far as Bird is concerned, she is a bride. To the state of California, however, she is either “Party A” or… Read more
CATBLOGGING DEPT.
A Knock In the Night
I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately. I get tired, but when I lie down I don’t fall asleep. Tonight I was finally feeling ready to doze off by about 4 am. I was lying there, relaxing, my thought process become disordered as I slipped into sleep… When I heard someone knock on the front door. Four… Read more
SCIENCE DEPT.
Mystery In Space
I think I’ve read about a dozen science fiction stories that start this way. It’s usually not a good sign. In a paper to appear in the Astrophysical Journal, astronomers working on the Supernova Cosmology Project report finding a new kind of something that they cannot make any sense of. … On February 21, 2006,… Read more
WEATHER DEPT.
Hurricanes and Bad Luck
Hurricane Ike turned out not to be as bad as predicted. Aside from a lucky shift to the east just before landfall, it also appears that the computer models made an inaccurate prediction about the height of the surge around Galveston. Now some people are complaining that Ike was over-hyped by the major news media,… Read more