Archive for August, 2006

Lazy

I haven’t posted much since I got back from the beach. I just wander from blog to blog, enjoying my sense of aimlessness, dropping a dumb comment here and there. All kinds of dumb things have happened in the world, but I can’t seem to work up the energy to take note of them in [...]

Willpower

Ever since the news of the foiled alleged liquid-explosive multiple-airliner plot in the UK, I’ve been racking my brain trying to recall where I’d read that the primary approach to terrorism should be internationally cooperative police work, not large-scale military operations, but that this notion had been discredited. Here we seemed to have an instance of such [...]

AutoDEET

Snippet of RealLife™ dialogue:
She: Those gloves really stink.
He: Yep. That’s my car repellant.
She: Greeeaaat.

Havoc

While we’re on the subject of insects [ "Spiders aren't insects!" --- "Oh, don't be such a freaking literalist!" ], here’s an urgent message from Physics Today:
In 2005, we all witnessed, via the international media, the devastation that hurricanes caused in property damage and loss of life. Katrina alone almost destroyed New Orleans and flooded [...]