I think astronomy has the most interesting history of all of the sciences. CONSIDER: • Nicky Copernicus – Figured out a way to make the heavens make sense by stopping the sun and spinning the Earth around it. Was so afraid of…

Why do towns have roads? To allow people to get from one place to another. What are these places?  And isn’t there a more efficient way to do this? An idea popped into my head fully formed while I was…

My friend Daniel and I have been doing this test for years. I call it the Bronx Tale test. It comes from the movie the Bronx Tale. It comes from this line: Sonny: Alright, listen to me. You pull up…

I’m trying to get back into the habit of posting. Here’s a short question that’s been in my conversational repertoire this week: If you won the lottery tonight. (Say $100 million after taxes.) What would you do that evening to…

Kyl-Santorum Fallacy: What begins as a bare assertion – when it is pointed out that the statement is false – the speaker replies that it was merely a rhetorical statement. This can either be simply admitting the rhetorical maneuver, as…

I can’t figure out how to make this look nice. Just click on the first one and cycle through it using the lightbox.                                  …

Some resolutions: Be in better shape than I am now Pass my departmental prelim Contact friends and family every month Do something creative … I need a fifth resolution here. Perhaps something involving sexy lady types. 🙂

Did I accomplish all of my goals for this year?  Did I accomplish any? Get down to 172 lbs. or 12% body fat Fail. Damn. I thought I’d set the goal at 175. Even then I failed. I got down…

Hay Gauys! Would you like to buy a used Honda Civic Hybrid? I just replaced the electric engine and got new tires. Unfortunately… it has 145,000 miles and the transmission is shot– Jiffy Lube tightened it up too harshly and…

Here‘s a syllabus he made! It’s so nice and shiny. You should enroll in his class!

Today I turn this: visited 34 states (68%) Into this: visited 35 states (70%) Create your own visited map of The United States

There’s an episode of How I Met Your Mother where one of the characters talks about how groups of women always look hotter than each individual woman. They called it the “Cheerleader Effect.” In high school, my group of friends…

It turns out I’m… 26 now. I think 25 was nice. I did cool things and hung out with cool people, though never enough of either. It was actually a fairly okay year, though it seems uneventful in retrospect. Probably…

I swear to god, I thought I’d written this down before… In reference to the last episode and taken from this website and this other one: Shotgun must be said audibly to all present or the person’s hand must be…

This year, I got a lot faster at drawing. And presumably better, but it’s going to be really hard to tell because I also cared much less than last year or the year before. In hour 12, SElizabeth and I…