Author: eric

SEE amazing turtles on Mars! DODGE flying fists at AGU meetings! WALK barefoot in warm Martian puddles (but keep that skimask on)! All this and more can be yours at Holger Isenberg’s Mars News

This American Life (my favorite Public Radio show) was quite good last night. Titled Invisible Worlds, it discussed eavesdropping on radio transmissions, investigating places you’re not suppossed to see, and the power of unspoken conversations. Most This American Life episodes can be heard in RealAudio on the show’s website.

“Come on out kids!” “Are you going to destroy us?” “Yes.”

I made a three-pound wheel of swiss cheese over the weekend. Actually, I started making it — the cheese won’t be ready to eat for about four months. It’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s so very tasty. You too can learn how the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company. I highly recommend ordering their 30 minute… Continue reading I made a three-pound wheel

Cafe Press: So here’s where I can put my big ugly mug on a big ugly mug for fun and profit. The link will take you to my “wares”, and at the bottom of my “store front” you can click to Cafe Press’ home page. There may be a use for this, somewhere.

Two tech stories from the BBC: A cybernetics expert is planning to hand over control of his body to a computer in the latest of his high profile experiments and Scientists in the United Kingdom are developing a prototype robot slug-destroyer, which draws its power from the decomposing bodies of its victims.

Nothing gets the old ticker pumping like reaching under submerged rocks and into holes in the river bank hoping to feel something — like a big fish — snap shut on your hand. I used to know people who would do this in the irrigation ditches of New Mexico and Texas, and saw pictures of… Continue reading Nothing gets the old ticker

This weblog has a section titled “Overly Dramatic Morrissey Quotation of the day”. This, I like.

Blogger’s been down all day, so I’m just getting started. It’s the first time it’s gone down, and they resolved the problem suitably quickly. I’ll say it again: I love what the Blogger folks have done.

This just in, via All Things Considered on NPR: Rapper Sir Mix-a-lot and the former members of Presidents of the United States of America have joined together to form Subset, and are now playing in clubs around Seattle. The bits on the radio sounded pretty swell. You can find a few blurbs about this here… Continue reading This just in, via All