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Sunday, April 30, 2023

Outage time again

 "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." - William Gibson

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Another Aurora Borealis fail

 "The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform you or push an agenda.  It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate the truth." - Garry Kasparov (chess grand master)

Monday, April 24, 2023

Isle of Man TT

 "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." - Sun Tzu 

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Happy Sweet 17

 Today is this blog's 17th birthday.  It's been around since 2006.  That's like a couple million years in internet time.  When this blog started, AOL was still a significant internet provider, and MySpace had over 100 million subscribers.

In 2006, Twitter launched, Blu-Ray was announced, 23 and Me (DNA analysis) was founded.  Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president was sentenced to death and later hanged.

Strange times then, stranger times now. 


Sunday, April 16, 2023

Monday, April 10, 2023

USS Thresher in memoriam

 "Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body." - Marcus Aurelius

Gravitational Lensing

 "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth.  I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth.  I didn't feel like a giant.  I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong

Saturday, April 08, 2023

Sonification of a black hole

 "I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in an apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca