BurningbirdThe editing process can be fraught with possibilities for humor, especially when looking at typos. In one example, the text of the sample web site talked about “Poor the margarita into a glass”, leading to expressions of sympathy from my editors. My favorite so far, though, is “Transversing collections of data..” instead of “Traversing collections […]
More cephaloporn thanks to Mr. Moult, who is also the happy owner of the einsteinslock.com domain. The site linked has some wonderful, though short, videos of Taningia danae, eight armed squid, captured recently by Tsunemi Kubodera. They demonstrate how amazingly quick and aggressive squid can be. When you consider how big the colossal was that was recently recovered, […]
What an absolutely beautiful fish. From Galactic Interactions: Gravity as the curvature of spacetime— it’s such a simple, elegant, beautiful concept that it almost pains me to think that efforts to unify gravity with quantum mechanics may result in our learning that General Relativity is just the effective limit of a deeper theory (much as Newton’s gravity is […]
You can never keep an old bird down… The mass weblog integration has been made, but not without a lot of problems. Most of the category associations were lost, and since I used categories as part of the permalinks, posts will end up with a new permalink that doesn’t map to the old. The only […]
I don’t have anything further to add to the discussion about women and whatever. The same old same old happens. I’ve listened to men who are in the loop who look around and say, “There’s no problem.” I’ve heard other men say there is a problem, and what are ‘they’, the men, going to do […]