It would be nice to think that those we elect to public office have the basic competence and knowledge to make informed decisions. Unfortunately it’s increasingly obvious that’s not always the case, as the uproar over gas prices indicates. Hard as it is to believe, it sometimes appears as if no one in our capitol [...]
Archive for April, 2006
They just don’t make them like they used to . . .
Posted in Links by Stephen Moody on April 28th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
One computer add-on I never would’ve though of: a built-in cutting board.
My trip
Posted in Personal by Stephen Moody on April 28th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
I’ve not posted much the last couple of days since I spent most of yesterday travelling to Utah to visit Elisabeth. I left Easley at 3:30am to catch my flight and finally arrived in St. George at 4:15pm. It made for a long day, but it’s been really good to be here already, and now [...]
What was that about thin ice?
This is hilarious. “Unusually heavy snow and ice last year forced Dupre and Larsen to call off a similar mission, but they now plan to launch Project Thin Ice 2006.” I’m pretty skeptical about global warming in general, so I’ve never really understood how colder temparatures are explained as due to global warming (The Day [...]
Cool hand chimes
Actually, to call them just “chimes” would be quite an understatement. This system is a set of electronic wireless batons that are motion sensitive and controlled through a programmable base station. The base station allows a director to program the individual batons to be any note or instrument desired using MIDI2 technology. The results are [...]
BJU bashing at Baylor
‘The World’s Largest Baptist University’ inaugurated a new president this past Friday with an interesting choice of inaugural speakers: Jon Meacham, liberal managing editor of Newsweek magazine and a semi-devout Episcopalian. While Meacham’s liberal political views came through pretty clearly his religious liberalism was the most disconcerting in this context. I had understood Baylor to [...]
How many ways to say “it’s about time”?
Newsweek reports that Hu Jintao and the Chi-com regime were less than thrilled with the reception Hu received in D.C. last week. The President apologized, but since, as the article points out, “I’m sorry” can be translated four different ways in Chinese, each with varying shades of meaning, it would be interesting to find out [...]
Cool gadget
Posted in Web Stuff by Stephen Moody on April 20th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
A couple of weeks ago, my watch went dead (at precisely 4:22am, fwiw). Presumably the battery was dead, but since the watch has a screw-in back that takes a special spanner wrench to come off, I didn’t care to pay a jeweler $10-20 to replace it for me until the next time the battery dies. [...]
The Doolittle Raid: 21st Century version
The 64th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid was this past Tuesday, April 18th. StragegyPage takes this as on opportunity to ponder an interesting question: “how [might] the press of today . . . have reported on the event[?]” As usual, it’s good to have some historical perspective.
OSU librarian-update
Posted in Politics by Stephen Moody on April 18th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
The OSU librarian charged with sexual harrasment that I blogged about earlier has been cleared.