And we’re talking Serious Muck. Doc, being as you’ve done scholarly research on conspiracy theories, I’m wondering if you’ve come across any of these recently. These all came from the comments section of this article: FEMA Has Plans to Evacuate Tampa Bay Area In Place. I don’t know whether the article’s source of info is [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Conspiracy Theories Run Amuck.
Posted in Ideology and Belief, Uncategorized on June 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Empty Calories
Posted in Nature, Uncategorized, Vagaries of Life on June 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Time for some saccharine creampuff filler, devoid of mentally nutritious substance, presented solely for idle enjoyment. These are other pictures I took while checking out the fire. These flowers are having a banner year. They’re all over the woods. These flowers with a name I don’t recall and am too lazy to look up in [...]
Boys and Toys and Phthalates
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this article, Plastics ingredients could make a boy’s play less masculine, in Science News Magazine. I’m about six months behind in my stack of magazines. This article was from a December issue, but it’s accessible online so I’ve linked to it. Two observations jump out – first, that it’s not just fish [...]
Fire Away
Posted in Nature, Uncategorized on June 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The fire’s all out now. Friday evening I walked around its perimeter and took some more pictures. It surprised me to see how small a fire line (along with watching firefighters, I suspect) could stop the fire when it wasn’t up in the tree tops. . . Even in places where the fire stayed on [...]
Hardy Fire Aftermath
Posted in Nature, Uncategorized, Vagaries of Life on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I took these pictures in the Hardy Fire area on Wednesday evening. Closer to my house, Little America Hotel over the past few years has had its woods thinned of overcrowded, spindly trees, the result of past decades of fire suppression. In these sections the firefighters were able to keep the flames out of the [...]
The Rest of the Forest
Posted in Nature, Vagaries of Life on June 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been taking the dogs out walking on the other side of the road from the burned area’s eastern edge the last few days. I’ve come across three spot fires on that side. All had been suppressed before they’d grown more than a quarter acre or so. There were several fire retardant drops on that [...]
This Week’s Reason for Not Blogging
Posted in Nature, Uncategorized, Vagaries of Life on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday afternoon I went outside to hang out the clothes, and as I was walking back toward the house I smelled a whiff of smoke. “Idiots”, I thought to myself, “Who’d light a fire on a windy day like this?” I glanced around toward my neighbors’ places, looking for a plume of smoke. And yikes, [...]
Temporary Hiatus
Posted in Gaming and Tech, Health, Vagaries of Life on June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I have developed a noticeable case of RSI, or repetitive stress injury in my right hand and arm. I know how it happened–I played through Diablo on a laptop, sitting in the wrong chair. If you’ve played that game you know it is a clickfest. Typing does not seem to bother as much as [...]
Posted in Vagaries of Life on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I seem to have given myself a nasty case of hand-to-mouse fatigue. So FailBlog is filling in for me this morning.
A Golden Oldie
Posted in Movies and Video on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week I went shopping for blackout curtains to keep my office at least decently cool during the afternoons. I found them, hung them, and they work fine. But while I was at Target I browsed the DVD section (of course) and found a treasure. I have a lot of old films on VHS but [...]
