Huge layoffs today at lots of law firms across the country.

Ouch. That will impact my company (law firms' libraries are big clients of ours).

Yikes! [link]

At what point will an orbital garbage collector be necessary/cost effective?

Shouldn't there be an air traffic control-equivalent for satellites?

Shouldn't there be an air traffic control-equivalent for satellites?

There sorta' is. At least the US Air Force has an excellent system for tracking all satellites and all orbital debris above a certain size. Occasionally the Space Shuttle or the ISS has to adjust its orbit due to warnings they receive.

Happy birthdays, Kristin and Maria and Darwin!

And I'm all sad at having missed a Nilly sighting.

I don't look at any video-type objects at work, but The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds definitely sounds bookmark-worthy.

Just got back from an office Valentine's party, which was generally fun but had some odd moments. The very first topic of conversation was the Vatican's recent thumbs-up to evolution, to which one person responded thus:

But how would that even work if you're religious, trying to believe in evolution? The Bible says that Jesus came two thousand years ago and that God and Jesus are the same person, or the Trinity, or whatever, so if you tried to count the timeline through evolution wouldn't you be, like, thousands of years off?

Everyone in the room, religious and non-, attempted valiantly to parse out what on earth she might have meant, and our conclusion was, I do not think those words mean what you think they mean. Any of them.

Also, because it's so awful it deserves its own non-snarky post, I don't even think I can read that article about the PA judges without getting teary with rage. But, in short, what Strega and Teppy said.

I don't know about this whole evolution thing.

Not whether or not it happened. It did of course. I just don't think it was such a good idea. What were those primitive proto-cells thinking?

What were those primitive proto-cells thinking?

"Some day there will be Puppy Cam"?

Sniff. I miss puppy cam.

Happy Birthdays Maria and Kristen!

I had a horrible day and just tried to get my cat to do a shared osytocin release (like the article Emily posted), but she would rather yowl in the kitchen like I have never fed her ever (even though there is food in her bowl!)

I got so angry at the theatre today, I swear I was about to have a rage blackout. I've typed and deleted several posts detailing my rage, but they were all incoherant. Suffice it to say that we (costumes) are following a calendar that is not made by us, but by the production manager and artistic director thatsays we are having fittings this weekend, and then they are surprised when we need the actors during rehearsal time (which is something like 10 am - 7 pm). Um, you made the schedule, so schedule around us-- especially when you booked the designer's travel! And don't try to make me seem unreasonable that we want to do fittings when the designer is here!