What accounts for the R&D dominance of the US between 1900 and the present day? Why were we able to be the first to make a nuclear bomb, reach the moon, invent the transistor, before all the other developed nations? Is it the much vaunted (during this campaign) small town folks from the "heartland"? No. …
Category Archive: General
Jun 02 2008
Drives me crazy
I have eczema. It itches like mad right now. I am fighting with every ounce of self control I possess not to be furiously scratching at the backs of my hands. This sucks. Last night I woke myself up scratching my hand. Did I mention that eczema is extremely attractive? No? That's because it's not. …
May 09 2008
Not very much fun at all
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I work in the webby world, and a lot of what I do is move sites from one format to another. What I have before me at this moment is a very, very, very large site. Bonus: it's fairly well-structured, with named divs and such. Now, …
May 07 2008
Sad
Today my African Violet gave up the ghost. I wasn't altogether surprised, as it had been ailing for awhile, but I didn't exactly expect it to sort of just fall apart when I was poking at it this morning, attempting to remove dead leaves. Instead of dead leaves I kinda pulled the whole top off, …
May 02 2008
Now that's just mean ("jason castro sucks")
Someone got here with the query "jason castro sucks" the other day. Now, I have a couple of questions. First of all, why use a search engine other than Google? You'll find much more relevant results about how much Jason Castro sucks using Google. I actually kind of root for him, in a weird way, …