Water Heater Repair

 "To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be." Fyodor Dostoevsky

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. 

Spring of 2023

 "Seek not the good in external things.  Seek it in yourself." - Epictetus

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

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

Tired of tires

 "Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another." - John Henry Newman

The six factor formula

 "The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken

21st Vehicle: Mercedes S600

 "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.  Rather we should thank God that such men lived." - Gen. George S. Patton (Not an endorsement of any war by this author, FYI)

Economics revisited

 "Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give.  A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others." - Marcus Aurelius