Author: Simon

As you may or may not know I was able to get a Gateway DX4831-01e thanks to the generous help of my readers. I LOVE the machine. If you can’t get one locally Amazon has them. About a month after I got the machine (a very nice one it is – Two eSATA ports [high…

Eric says that “the assertion of our constitutional rights is now a revolutionary act.” I agree. So in that vein I think it is time to repeat: Click on the above image and learn how to spread it around.

Eric‘s post A revolution both revolutionary and constitutional deserves some music. And a comment I left at a previous post: I remember back in the day when the lefty-revolutionaries got ALL the chicks. And to be living in one of the “centers” Bezerkeley? You just can’t imagine. Well since you [Eric] lived there then you…

From a comment at Dr. Helen‘s. Dr.D said… The only schools that offer some hope of being conservative, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, are engineering colleges. Those where the faculty are regularly in contact with industry, particularly if they come and go between industry and academia, tend to be quite conservative. This is…

In a soon to be unreleased paper the journal Nature will announce that Global Warming Caused by CO2 is statistically connected with increased erectile function in human males. One participant in the study was especially enthusiastic. “With another doubling of CO2 I could go all night.” His sorely taxed partner was unavailable for comment. Prompted…

Historian Will Durant wrote in his book The Story of Civilization: “The Mohammadan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown…

The EPA under rules developed during a Republican administration has a plan that will shut down up to 20% of the coal fired electrical plants in the nation. In March 2005 the federal EPA issued two new rulings that mandate significant reductions in air pollution and mercury pollution. These federal regulatory requirements will have significant…

I like to get my politics from engineers. Engineers are schooled in: “What can possibly go wrong? In truth just about everything.” While the general electorate dreams of: “Laws? We just pass them and the words (and government guns) will give us what we are dreaming of.” You can’t bust that kind of thinking with…

I want to tell you about a clock I bought a while back that my mate and I are very happy with. The La Crosse Technology WT-3102B 10-Inch Atomic Analog Clock. It really isn’t an atomic clock. It synchronizes with an atomic clock signal sent out by station WWVB near Boulder, Colorado. If you look…

I have started a new blog called The Inertia Question. So what is it all about? That tired feeling you have in the morning before your sixth cup of coffee? No. I explain what it is all about in my first post which I reprint here in its entirety: ============ This blog is dedicated to…

My post Wreck Value attracted a very amusing comment. Justthisguy said… Ah, yes, Miss Bankhead. I used to work in Huntsville, with some of the Original Space Nazis, so I drove to work on the road named for her Dad, many times. She was conceived at Tallulah Gorge, in Georgia, my state of birth. (hence…

A private company has just gotten a $50 million cash infusion for its fusion experiments. A private company in Foothill Ranch that is reportedly experimenting with nuclear fusion power has raised $50 million in funding, according to a report from Socaltech.com. Little more information was available Monday about the experiments at the company, Tri-Alpha Energy,…

The look on Mike Wallace’s face is priceless. Worth 55 seconds of your life. Definitely. H/T Joan of Argghh!. May I suggest you follow the link and read Joan’s take on this video and recent events. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Iran has some new friends in the uranium business. TEHRAN (AFP) – The top diplomats of Iran, Brazil and Turkey will discuss nuclear fuel supplies for Tehran in Istanbul on Sunday, in the first such gathering since the Islamic republic was slapped with new sanctions. Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was to meet his Brazilian…

Over at Watts Up With That they are discussing Al Gore’s marital and hotel difficulties in relation to a hockey stick graph that is most amusing. So I thought I’d add a few words to a most ribald discussion. It was all the fault of improperly labeled RAP music. Just ask Tipper. Tipper is definitely…

Putting the criminal justice system in charge of treating drug addiction is literally attempting to do brain surgery with a billy club. Cross Posted at Power and Control

The band is pretty raw. But I like their youth and enthusiasm. Here are the liner notes so to speak. Here is our cover version and arrangement of one of the all time greatest songs ever written, Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone”. It is such an incredible song in so many different ways; of…

In response to the moral panic over CO2 production I was inspired to say a few words: Even if every one in the US committed mass suicide it would make very little difference to the global CO2 burden if we don’t get the Chinese aboard. If it weren’t for the carbon footprint I’d suggest a…

Francis Cianfrocca is discussing Class Warfare In America. At the end of his piece he mentions a businessman’s lament. …I had a conversation yesterday with an old friend who runs a high-ten-figure hedge fund. (They’re flat for the year, like the rest of the hedge-fund world.) What he wants is to join a political party…

Eric at This I-dosing thing is giving me heavy flashbacks, man! is discussing how there is a call for government to look into how kids (it is always the kids) are changing their brain waves with music instead of drugs. And the panic is that currently the government has no control over music. Or stereo…