Month: September 2009
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Norfolk Botanical Gardens: Azaleas in Bloom
Vicky with Azaleas The azalea is unique among species of rhododendron in that, rather than blooming in clusters or “stripers” as they are known, every terminal branch on the azalea bush produces a flower, resulting in the spectacular displays they bring each April. Check out the complete flickr set here.
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Norfolk Botanical Gardens: Rose Garden
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. ~ J. M. Barrie Norfolk Botanical Gardens Rose Garden Shakespeare wrote, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;” however, psychologists have found this is not true, that words impact the way…
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CIS515 Strategies for Database Systems: The O/R Problem: Mapping Between Relational and Object-Oriented Methodologies
A PDF of this Paper is available here. Introduction Relational databases are set of tables defining the columns of the rows they contain, which are also conceptualized as relations defining the attributes of the tuples they store. Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) abstract the normalized relational structures underlying the system away from the user, allowing…
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A Letter to Roger Ebert Concerning a Misconception About Evolution
Dear Roger Ebert, In your recent review of “Extract,” you made the comment about the film “Idiocracy” that “those Idiots had the benefit of a few hundred years during which to refute Darwin by evolving less intelligence.” I know that you are a man who appreciates science, and thought you should know that your statement…
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Norfolk Botanical Gardens: Bonzai Show
40 Year Old Bonzai Yew Tree Artist: Walter Lisicki / Joseph White It was merely a happy coincidence that Vicky and I paid a visit to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens at the same time they were having a Bonzai tree show and competition. It fascinates me how artists can spend decades nurturing these trees and…
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Google Book Fail
Found on page 241 of The Library of Congress: the art and architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building: Google Book Fail It’s a wonder we don’t see more pages like this, considering the Google Geeks have hundreds of thousands of books to scan.