BBC => Slitheen For Sarah Jane Raxacoricofallapatorians return for spin-off show. New CBBC series The Sarah Jane Adventures will feature the return of some familiar Doctor Who enemies when it debuts later this month. The Slitheen, a family of scheming monsters first seen in Aliens of London / World War Three are back – and … Read more
Our new playset for the kids was installed today. It’s not quite finished, a circular slide is still on backorder but for now it’s done. It’s taller than I thought, though. It’s actually taller than my house in the back, which mean the little sh*ts who live in the apartments can easily see it. I … Read more
Poor old Apple TV, always a bridesmaid, never a bride… Still, now that Apple has built up the infrastructure in iTunes to allow the new iPods to purchase video from the Internet and sync it back to your iTunes library, I wonder if that will also be a quiet upgrade for the Apple TV anytime … Read more
BBC – Press Office => Doctor Who: Series five After months of media speculation, BBC One can confirm that the Bafta-award winning Doctor Who will return for a fifth series in spring 2010. That’s the good news… the bad news is that 2009 will not have a regular series, just three specials. Apparently to accommodate … Read more
As I mentioned earlier, blogger PZ Myers was being sued for calling someone’s crackpot science… well, he called it “crackpot.†The good news is in, the suit is being dropped, presumably because it didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in Saudi Arabia. Since “crackpot†means eccentric or impractical, I guess the suit was crackpot, too.
This is an appalling development, which was brought to my attention via Richarddawkins.net (but ultimately came from Boing Boing) PZ Myers sued for a negative review in a blog post by Boing Boing PZ Myers, Ph.D., Division of Science & Math, University of Minnesota, Morris, says: I’m in an interesting situation. I wrote a very … Read more
Just before we left for Taiwan, we finally had a radiant heat barrier installed in our attic. We’d been talking about it for years but were skeptical of the dramatic claims of energy savings. The very day it was installed, we were positive we could notice a difference in the cooling pattern in the house. … Read more
It’s been a while since I posted any paleontology news. Reuters => Dinosaur mass grave discovered in Switzerland ZURICH (Reuters) – An amateur paleontologist in Switzerland may have unearthed Europe’s largest dinosaur mass grave after he dug up the remains of two Plateosaurus. The article goes on to say that the area might contain as … Read more
My wife is a professional educator. She’s also a graduate student working on her Master’s degree in education.
As English is not her native language, I’ve had nearly nine years now of proofreading her papers for non-native grammatical mistakes. That’s given me a fascinating opportunity to read the coursework for her degree programs. As a non-educator, what I’ve learned shocks even the cynic in me. I’ve got some thoughts on the whole thing that I’ll be posting later.
In the meantime, I want to recount a story told to me by a friend who runs a business near a local high school.
A high school student came into his store. As it happens, the kid had a $92 credit with the store. He made to purchase $115 worth of merchandise. My friend rang him up and told him how much the total was and how much he owed: $23.
