Saturday, September 10, 2011

20110906

  • The official hunk of metal that is the standard for the kilogram is loosing mass. (Polishing?)
  • The replacement proposal is to fix the Kg at the mass of a certain number of carbon atoms.
  • The portions at El Nopal in the mall are such that 1 order is really 2 meals.

20110905

  • When pausing at the end of a pool stroke (as Butch Croft does) it is important that the pause be of reasonable length and not shoot too quickly.
  • Testors doesn’t seem to sell a purple suited to my Dark Elves.
  • Lucy Steele has a tramp stamp in Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters.

20110904

  • The Monna Lisa has suffered damage through stupidity (Napolean hung it in his bathroom where it got water damage an an Italian house painter who “liberated” the painting back to Italy in the early 1900’s got a speck of orange paint on it.) and malice. (The bottom of the painting has been doused with acid and someone threw a rock at it the same year.)
  • There is a confederate dead statue in Louisville.
  • Using the XP setup utilty to format a partition you don’t want Windows leads to a VERY annoying dual boot situation which will probably require editing the boot.ini file.

Friday, September 9, 2011

20110903

  • Dillon park in Indy is very nice.
  • Mr. Rumbold on AYBS is the great uncle of one of Holly Hirst’s friends.
  • Regan is going to learn to play the flute.

20110902

  • The Force Concept Inventory was designed to measure understanding of Newtonian physics concepts.
  • The UN review of the Israel’s interception of a flotilla trying to get supplies to Gaza was legal, but that they used excessive force.
  • A black walnut tree can sell for $20,000.

20110901

  • Between 40 and 60 Highly convincing style forgeries of expressionist paintings said to have been hidden during WWII have created a huge art scandal.
  • The solar power company, Solyndra , Obama spoke at and called part of the green economy has gone bankrupt.
  • A San Francisco design team has created a USB powered vibrator called the Crave.