Monthly Archives: September 2004

XYZZY

Well, we all made it back from our cave adventure. Now for the details… We spent Friday and Saturday night at Alabaster Caverns. This is a cave complex where the local rock is gypsum — used in home construction as … Continue reading

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You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Passages, All Alike

Heading out for a cave campout with our Boy Scout patrol. The boys will be camping out in a cave and then we will go wild caving (aka, explore the caves with no tour guide) on Saturday. If I don’t … Continue reading

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BBC now has online a flashed-up version of the old Infocom game Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. [Via BoingBoingBlog]

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But I Doubt It

My son and I were coming home from Scouts the other night in my car. I had the radio tuned to the Buzz when Green Day’s American Idiot came on. Here is a snippet of the lyrics from a popup … Continue reading

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The Reason for the War in Iraq: Rated M17

Mature adults only. If you are a pie-eyed pacifist who thinks that all we really need to do is sit down with a full set of Joni Mitchell MP3s and discuss our differences, don’t go further. If you are a … Continue reading

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Bush and Kerry’s Health Care Plans

Wharton School of Business has a wonderful email that they send out that points to recent articles posted on their site. While I would prefer an RSS feed, this email is a jewel. A recent article is entitled Why Bush … Continue reading

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Toby Keith Concert?!?

Jen writes of a Soldier Attacked in the parking lot of a Toby Kieth concert. She quotes from a local NBC affiliate: Foster Barton, 19, of Grove City, received a Purple Heart for his military service in Iraq. He almost … Continue reading

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Just For The Record

No matter who is elected president next November, we will be attacked again. And attacked in a high-profile way. Most likely the terrorists will have come from the Mexico border. We have an enormous problem with illegal immigrants over the … Continue reading

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Michael Got the Jones For Tatcher?

In Sorry to ruin your morning java, Steve fisks the latest Michael Moore memo to America. One classic quote from Steve: I had a hunch your monomaniacal hatred of us was rooted in your secret love and admiration for us—-Mikey … Continue reading

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From 10 million light years to a quark

Neat visualization that shows the scale of the universe from the large to the small. Click on Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You – Secret Worlds: The Universe Within – Interactive Java Tutorial to take a tour. Java required. Be … Continue reading

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