From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space
- A note on deCamp's _Lest Darkness Fall_
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gmcdavid- July 14th, 21:38
curious
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- Problem Solving
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- gmcdavid
- July 14th, 21:24
Fixing your Lycanthropy: 3 Approaches.
I am reminded of one of our oldest friends, an engineer who frequently refers to "Engineering method Number One: Brute Force."
- Hand cut dovetails
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- gmcdavid
- July 12th, 20:51
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- More fiber display stands
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- gmcdavid
- July 10th, 21:50
I finished two more fiber display stands, similar to these.
formia_mcdavid to use in her business. Like the first pair, they can be taken apart for transport and quickly rebuilt on site. She will need them for her trip next week.
- Cereal with nuts
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- gmcdavid
- July 9th, 17:23
- Less than meets the eye
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- gmcdavid
- July 7th, 21:21
Everywhere you can read that Al Franken's victory in the long drawn-out Minnesota Senate race gives the Democrats a filibuster-proof 60 vote majority in the Senate. Actually, both liberal hopes and conservative fears are misplaced. I remember the Carter administration. The idea that all 60 Democratic Senators would vote lock-step on any really controversial issue is not science fiction. It is fantasy.
- Intensive Physics?
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- gmcdavid
- July 7th, 20:14
I know this probably is about electrical switches, but when I saw this near downtown Minneapolis my first thought was about a really serious course on quantum mechanics.
- Convention Game
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- gmcdavid
- July 7th, 11:55
Pin the Disease to Jenny McCarthy
A humorous look at a very serious issue.
From Bug Girl's entertaining Con Report.
For the record:mia_mcdavid and I have two children. Both are on the autistic spectrum. T is fully autistic (non-verbal) and J has Asperger's Syndrome. Both received all the usual childhood vaccinations. We have no regrets about this.
- Thankful for an institution
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- gmcdavid
- July 7th, 8:15
relieved
While at Convergence I heard there is a movement to get a star named after Michael Jackson. This idea is destined to the oblivion it deserves: All nomenclature of the sky is managed (quite well, IMHO) by the International Astronomical Union, which is not going to do anything so silly.
- Convergence 2009
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- gmcdavid
- July 7th, 7:59
Convergence 2009 was a good con, though the sheer size of it exposed a basic structural flaw. In most of my decades in fandom, the social aspects of a convention have been more important than the programming. However, the highlight of this Convergence was one of the programming tracks. It was the most interesting programming I have seen in the several Convergences we have attended. The problem was with the party space: The parties of an ever-growing convention are squeezed into a finite and now very crowded space.
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- The evolution of Bigfoot ....
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- gmcdavid
- July 6th, 10:25
- amused
.... happened because Darwin Killed Off The Werewolf.
Friday night at Convergence there was an interesting and very funny panel about Bigfoot stories.
- At Convergence
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- gmcdavid
- July 3rd, 20:35
mia_mcdavid and I are at Convergence, the biggest of the local science fiction conventions. We are having a good time. The programming seems more interesting (for me, anyway) than in some previous years.
- Stupidity correctly rewarded
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- gmcdavid
- July 2nd, 17:23
Man Burned by Burning Man Can't Sue Festival"The risk of injury to those who voluntarily decide to partake in the commemorative ritual at Burning Man is self-evident," Justice Ignazio Ruvolo wrote.
..."if there ever was a case to apply the assumption of risk doctrine, this is it. This is person who was a well-educated man and experienced with the festival and appreciated the danger, who voluntarily exposed himself to a much higher degree of risk by walking into the Burning Man."
- Irish Class, June 29, 2009
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- gmcdavid
- June 30th, 20:59
Rang Gaeilge, 29ú lá Mí na Mheiteamh
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- The Short and Violent Life of a Knight in Scotland
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- gmcdavid
- June 30th, 19:26
- Great Jury Rigs
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- gmcdavid
- June 29th, 8:09
- amused
- Sir Arthur Evans, the Minoans, and the Mother Goddess
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- gmcdavid
- June 28th, 19:22
- curious
- I often feel like this
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- gmcdavid
- June 26th, 8:11
- Obama's re-election strategy :-)>
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- gmcdavid
- June 25th, 19:31
- Passionate about science
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- gmcdavid
- June 25th, 8:16
Physics discussion ends in skateboard attackA homeless man is on trial in San Mateo County on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics, authorities said Wednesday.
From Bad Astronomy, where Phil Plait and his commenters are having fun.
