I want a new place if only it'll get me the hell out of Jacksonville and somewhere a) I really want to be and b) potentially living near friends.
San Francisco!
And now I have a Lucero song stuck in my head:
I’m afraid that I might drown if I don’t move
From these waters that run so deep
From these Southern ways and lazy heat
Now I’m stuck, ain't got much to show
[...]
Well, San Francisco sure sounds nice
And Brooklyn might suit me just fine
'Cause life down here just moves so slow it seems
Like a river barge pushin' upstream
So it's not just a bunch of podcasts that say, "Nope. No aliens yet."
No, it's good, they cover lots of stuff. If you don't like bad puns you'll want to avoid it though. Phil Plait is a recurring guest on the Sunday shows.
Oh, and The SGU, of course, but that's also not strictly a science podcast.
Oh, and The SGU, of course, but that's also not strictly a science podcast.
I thought of that one too, but was on the fence because of the not exclusively science thing.
Seth Shostak was on Colbert Report yesterday--very funny guy!
Today, here in Leeds, we've had five types of weather in three hours. It currently thinks it's spring. It'll change its mind in a minute.
Welcome to Florida.
And Chicago.
I miss rain. I don't miss humidity and high temperatures. Damn the popularity of the Pacific Northwest, that I can't afford to move up there.
Larry King has discovered he has a son he didn't know about. His son's name? Larry King Jr.
Larry King Jr.: Larry King Goes Public With 47-Year-Old Secret Son
"I knew there was a Larry King Jr. out there, I'd heard that, but I didn't know he was mine. The marriage was very short and she told me if it's a boy, I'm gonna name him Larry King Jr.," King, 75, told The Post yesterday. "Then I never heard again."
Larry Jr. was born in November 1961.
Awesome headline: Smokey Bear Could Be Replaced By Smokey Blade-Wielding Robot
Okay, wow. Here's an idea for you--a giant, saw blade-wielding robot that can be unleashed to fight forest fires. See, it can be deployed to rapidly clear cut a section of forest to contain a blaze with those massive buzz saws, sparing pristine acres and saving lives. Just goes to show what a generation of designers reared on a steady diet of Transformers, Voltron, and I guess, Captain Planet can do when they put their mind to it.
So, does anyone else have difficulty accepting compliments? They often make me uncomfortable. Just now, my boss was all "Good job!" on a bug I fixed. It reminded me of 7th grade, when my teacher read an essay I wrote to the entire class, and everyone was telling me how great it was. It's hard to explain, but that made me really uncomfortable too....
