Month: October 2008
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Flash SF: The Philanthropist’s Dilema
“At this stage, Mr. Haro, we have exhausted all options,” the doctor was explaining softly. “It’s time to settle your affairs.” Haro nodded slightly from his prone position, where numerous tubes and wires bound him to the bed, which he now knew he would never rise from again. He waited for the electrodes to stimulate…
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Why Does John McCain Hate Planetariums?
Okay, so I’ve officially gone from admiration to mere respect, and now to plain dislike of John McCain. He made my list for the following point about Barack Obama in Tuesday night’s debate: He voted for nearly $1 billion in pork barrel earmark projects including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at…
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Coolest Unit of Measurement EVER: The LOC
To quote the textbook Information Science by David G. Luenberger, on the units of measurement for information: A popular unit is the LOC, representing 20 terabytes, which is roughly the contents of the U.S. Library of Congress when converted to digital form. (Emphasis mine) That’s right, America has a Library so #$%&ing grandios that Information…
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Elementary Particles at the Quantum Zoo
When they broke open molecules, they found atoms. When they broke open atoms, they found explosions. The Large Hadron Collider is an experiment of gargantuan proportions, 26.7 kilometers in circumference and costing 6.4 billion euros. It’s quest: to find Elementary Particles, that is, particles that are not made of other particles. It is an adventure…
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Barack Obama Rally, Victory Landing Park, Newport News, VA 20081003
This has been a year of firsts for me this presidential election season. My first time voting in a primary, first time donating to a political campaign, and my first time ever being this incredibly addicted to the daily news (Honestly, I can’t wait for this to be over so I can stop refreshing the…
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The Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum
I happened to make it on opening day to this exhibit. TGAW, my wonderful adventuring partner, came along with me, pointing out all the most interesting parts of the displays I was too busy taking photos of to notice. I’d been eagerly awaiting the exhibit’s opening since I caught the following enticing glimpse of it…
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Flash SF: Information Entropy
The complete dismantling of universe Hexonia was a tragic, however necessary evil. It was a series of genocides numbering in the hundreds of billions, but all of the matter within our own Universe was all ready consumed in our ultimate computation. The question naturally arose, in those brief moments when there was sufficient processing power…
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Comparisons of the Candidate’s Answers to Science Debate 2008
Science Debate 2008 has posted the two candidate’s answers side by side, and I have taken the time to thoroughly review them. Obama comes out the obvious winner in this debate for consistently demonstrating a clear understanding of the issue and proposing specific policies to handle it. McCain only clearly won on the topic of…
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Computer Science Month: A Computer is All Anyone Needs
A few years ago some dorks tried to make October Computer Science learning month, but now I can’t find any links to it. So I’m guessing it was discontinued due to excessive wedgies and wet-willies being inflicted on participants, which is a shame because computers are the single most coolest invention on the planet right…