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Live Long and Prosper
May. 4th, 2025 01:23 pmToday's Foxtrot cartoon, which I can't seem to post here, is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Oh, that's why my ice cream melted
Aug. 2nd, 2024 04:18 pmBack on April 22, 2021, the average CO2 content of the atmosphere (measured at Mauna Loa observatory) was 417.64 ppm. On July 29th this year it was 425.21 ppm.
*The More You Know!*
*The More You Know!*
Most of me says ABOUT FUCKING TIME, but there's still a part of me amazed that this has happened in my lifetime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/world/europe/pope-gay-lesbian-same-sex-blessing.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/world/europe/pope-gay-lesbian-same-sex-blessing.html
Oh Good God
Apr. 10th, 2023 02:34 pmIt's finally happened.
I was just typing up a lab assignment for my intro class (in Word) and used the phrase "your results". Naturally I ran the finished document through the Spell Check because I don't want to look like a moron to a bunch of 18-year olds. Imagine my surprise when the checker kept trying to get me to change it to "you're results".
The Apocalypse is nigh.
I was just typing up a lab assignment for my intro class (in Word) and used the phrase "your results". Naturally I ran the finished document through the Spell Check because I don't want to look like a moron to a bunch of 18-year olds. Imagine my surprise when the checker kept trying to get me to change it to "you're results".
The Apocalypse is nigh.
* Yeah, probably not. But it certainly seemed that way to me. Thank God for Stephen Colbert.
WaPo did an op-ed
Sep. 9th, 2018 10:27 amI've said it before, and I still believe it, so I'll probably say it again. The greatest divide in the human race isn't between "races" or "generations", or even between rich and poor. It's between male and female. It's a wonder we manage to breed at all.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/tennis/at-us-open-power-of-serena-williams-and-naomi-osaka-is-overshadowed-by-an-umpires-power-play/2018/09/08/edbf46c8-b3b4-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.440fc4529bfd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/tennis/at-us-open-power-of-serena-williams-and-naomi-osaka-is-overshadowed-by-an-umpires-power-play/2018/09/08/edbf46c8-b3b4-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.440fc4529bfd
Happy Birthday!
Aug. 25th, 2018 04:38 pmGoogle has informed me that today is Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday. Technically, today would have been his birthday if he hadn't died eighteen years ago, but details like that seem to have disappeared from the language and public awareness these days.
Anyway ...
Believe it or not, he means a great deal to me. Back in the Cretaceous, he hosted a semi-regular series called Young People's Concerts on TV. For many Boomers, myself included, they were our first introduction to classical music. (My parents had already taken care of jazz and Broadway show tunes.)
I loved those shows, and it was darned near impossible to pry me away from the set when one was on. The thing I remember most about them, aside from the amazing music, was that he talked directly into the camera as he explained a piece of music or why the orchestra had as many violinists as it did. Most importantly, he never spoke down to his young viewers.
So thank you, Maestro, for those concerts and West Side Story.
Anyway ...
Believe it or not, he means a great deal to me. Back in the Cretaceous, he hosted a semi-regular series called Young People's Concerts on TV. For many Boomers, myself included, they were our first introduction to classical music. (My parents had already taken care of jazz and Broadway show tunes.)
I loved those shows, and it was darned near impossible to pry me away from the set when one was on. The thing I remember most about them, aside from the amazing music, was that he talked directly into the camera as he explained a piece of music or why the orchestra had as many violinists as it did. Most importantly, he never spoke down to his young viewers.
So thank you, Maestro, for those concerts and West Side Story.
We need more of this ...
Jun. 6th, 2018 08:02 amKudos to Lonnie Quinn of Channel 2 in NYC, who just gave an EXCELLENT explanation on CBS This Morning of the differences between Kilauea and Volcan de Fuego, complete with holographic diagrams. (Okay, he didn't talk about the geochemistry, but that probably would have been too much to ask of a meteorologist!)
It's a boy
Apr. 23rd, 2018 08:07 amThe three anchors on CBS This Morning just interrupted themselves to announce that the Duchess of Cambridge has had a boy. And that the hairdresser has just left the hospital!
As thoroughly American as I am, and as strongly as I would resist any type of monarchy, I am tickled every time a royal baby is born. I hope the little guy has a good life.
Plus, Uncle Harry is now one step farther away from the throne, which I'm sure delights him and soon-to-be Aunt Meghan.
As thoroughly American as I am, and as strongly as I would resist any type of monarchy, I am tickled every time a royal baby is born. I hope the little guy has a good life.
Plus, Uncle Harry is now one step farther away from the throne, which I'm sure delights him and soon-to-be Aunt Meghan.
