Youtube presented me with this video explaining that physicists have only 5 jokes. Angela Collier’s Youtube page says that she is a physicist and I could see that she is cute, so right up my alley.
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SpaceNews: China interested in lava tubes.
China, and anyone interested in a Moon base, should be interested in lava tubes. If NASA does wake up, it’s likely to roll over and go back to sleep. Fortunately, Elon Musk needs a Moon base to get to Mars.
The movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, got a lot right. The surface of the Moon is an obnoxious place to live. The surface temperature goes from about -200o F to 200o F. Gamma rays bombard the surface, but cosmic rays are a bigger problem. Cosmic rays hitting the Earth produce the Northern Lights as their energy dissipates in the atmosphere and are deflected by our magnetic field. Those subatomic particles moving at nearly the speed of light, are not easily screened
Sparky was being very patient as I worked on the bridge wall. Well, that’s what I thought.
College Fix: Ohio State’s new intellectual diversity director
Legal scholar Lee Strang is now at Ohio State University to lead the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and Society. It is one of five new “intellectual diversity” centers at public Ohio universities that are in the works. They will work to promote “civic thought and leadership,” according to Strang, a former University of Toledo professor.
Intellectual diversity is important to get all sides of an issue. This sounds like a good move, but we’ll see what this center actually accomplishes.
It’s been five days since the Appalagee High School shooting, and the details are starting to come out. A few items are notable.
Bri Jones, 14, was in second period Wednesday when Colt Gray left the classroom, Jones said. “We didn’t notice he left,” Jones said, adding that he was “always quiet.” But Gray came back and knocked on the door, Jones said. Bri said she peeked out the door before she opened it because that’s what her mom taught her to do. “As I was looking at the door, he was pulling his gun out, and then I froze up, like I froze up and I said ‘no’ to myself,” she said. The teacher asked for the door to be opened, Bri said, “because she didn’t know he had a gun because she was at her desk.” As she went to open the door, “I was like, ‘No, he has a gun,’” Jones said.
Everyone in that classroom owes their lives to Bri Jones. Generally, 14 year-olds are awfully dumb. Bri should get a statue or t-shirt or something.
There is a project I’ve been dreading for three or four years. The land bridge over the creek has been eroding, and there are too many options for a solution. Also, there is a chance that the culvert pipes are too small, and would need to be replaced.
My slender little mutt, the day I picked him up from the Friendship Animal Protective League in Elyria.
In an early post on this blog, I described the process of getting a dog.
The TV show, Star Trek: Enterprise convinced me to get a beagle. A news article about 42 beagles getting rescued from a house in Lakewood got me motivated to go to the pound.
Sparky was not one of that lot, but after a news report like that, it’s hard not to wonder how that situation came to be.
Danny and Kenzie’s wedding was officiated by a Lakewood judge who is a friend of her family. We got to talking, and she told me that she was presided over that case. She explained what happened.
Sparky may have a wandering eye. Not in the Bill Clinton, man-whore, way. The dog pound cut his nuts off before they handed him over. I mean in the amblyopia way I recall from those after-school specials they used to have on TV. The kid with the lazy eye gets picked on until his mom takes him to the doctor. He still gets picked on because he has to wear an eye patch. A kind Art teacher makes him a pirate eye patch and he becomes popular on the playground.
My nephew Danny married Kenzie yesterday. It is his second marriage, so they kept it to a small gathering. I only got invited because Danny still has my steam cleaner.
Stay Social: 4 Ways to Fight Loneliness in Retirement
Reports and articles are always coming out on fighting loneliness in retirement. This one on Katie Curic’s site is about as useless as the rest of them.
My strategy was to have a lot of friends, family and acquaintances prior to retiring. And to not like being around people too much. That way, the supply-and-demand graph remains favorable.