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Swine Flu got you worried?
posted by GJ on April 28, 2009 @ 9:30AM

Never fear--have I got a resource for you!  Check in at this blog to get some real (i.e., not panic-driven Main Stream Media drivel) information about the swine flu.  It's updated several times a day based on the latest CDC news conferences and also contains some good discussions of the likely outcomes based on most recent findings.

1 comment | Tags: info, science

Stuff I'm doing...
posted by GJ on March 2, 2009 @ 3:52PM

Only to post something other than political antagonist posts, here's what yours truly is reading / watching / playing these days.  Feel free to post your own items too!

Reading:

  • Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake:  hilarious collection of autobiographical essays. 
  • Stephen King's Duma Key:  just finished it...plodding start, but still an decent ghost story.
  • Scott Smith's A Simple Plan:  just started it, and oh yes, there will be blood!
  • Phil Plait's Death From The Skies!:  Literally, "these are the ways the world will end."  Way better than Nostradamus, IMO.  Fun to read, too!  Plait is known as the Bad Astronomer--check out his blog. You can also catch him on the cable specials having to do with astronomy stuff, although not as much as Neil deGrasse Tyson, who also has a book out similar to Phil's, called Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries.  I'll probably read that one next.

Watching:

  • SciFi's Battlestar Galactica:  only a few episodes left!  Whatever will SciFi do once it's gone??  Oh, I know!  Bring back Eureka!!!
  • NHL:  hey, the trade deadline is approaching.  The Oilers still suck, but the Leafs suck worse.  Ha! Ha!
  • Top Gear:  growing bored with this show, unfortunately.  They need to play conkers again. 

Playing:

  • Grand Theft Auto:  Vice City.  This game is simply a lot of fun.  No kids allowed, though.  PC
  • Bully:  must be Rockstar Games month.  Not quite as much fun as GTA, but still amusing.  Wii
  • Rockband 2: I can't sing, can't play drums, and can't do much beyond medium on guitar and bass.  Still fun.  Wii
  • Sins of a Solar Empire: kind of a mashup of Master of Orion and any RTS game you've ever played.  Very entertaining, but I'm not convinced it scales well to large galaxies due to its RTS nature.  PC

4 comments | Tags: info

Save the automakers? Read this article first.
posted by GJ on November 15, 2008 @ 1:12AM

If you've never heard about Japan's Lost Decade, you might want to start here.

11 comments | Tags: info

Substance on Obama's science positions
posted by GJ on August 31, 2008 @ 6:11PM

Check it out!  Barack answered a bunch of science questions.  Now if only John McCain will do the same.  We wait with baited breath, for sure!

No comments | Tags: politics, info

Criminal Baumbachs
posted by GJ on August 5, 2008 @ 10:09AM

So far, none of you have made the list.  Get a move on!

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Hordes of jellyfish
posted by GJ on August 2, 2008 @ 4:41PM

Apparently, it's not just Hilton Head that is having problems with jellyfish infestation these days.

7 comments | Tags: info

The "I got back safe and sound" post
posted by GJ on July 22, 2008 @ 11:34PM

We're safely in Williamsburg now, after taking a back way here that took us across the Jamestown Ferry--that was fun!  Anyhow, we'll be here for a next couple of days...but the rest of you, sign in and let us know you made it back ok!

26 comments | Tags: info

Developing old film?
posted by GJ on November 6, 2007 @ 4:48PM

We still have some old film we've never gotten developed.  Expiration dates (develop before dates) range from 1998-2007 or so.  I'm assuming I can't just take that to the local drugstore for processing at this point...anyone have experience with developing exposed film past its prime?

1 comment | Tags: info

Have they finally fingered D.B. Cooper?
posted by GJ on October 23, 2007 @ 5:50AM

Every few years, or so it seems, a new suspect is announced as possibly being the infamous D.B. Cooper, who to this date remains the only uncaught skyjacker on U.S. soil.  Guess what?  There is a new suspect!  While it's not 100% solid, it's an interesting read.

1 comment | Tags: info

Check scams....read this, even if you think you're too smart to fall for one
posted by GJ on October 9, 2007 @ 7:25PM

One of my favorite consumer advocate blogs has a post about cashier check scams.  Say what?  You thought cashier's checks were way more valid than personal checks?  That they're verified in some fashion by the issuing bank?  Me too.  Like I said, read it!

2 comments | Tags: info

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