There was an OpEd piece noting that A One-Way Ticket to Mars could get volunteers and shouldn’t be discounted out of hand.
I agree – most of my family back two generations went to the US – by the numbers, I’m actually one of the tiny Irish offshoot of a large American family. They weren’t imagining [...]
There’s a raging debate over on the Rav about the use, appropriateness, and connotations of profanity. The post that sent me over the edge and back to my own blog (where I rant more freely than I do in a forum setting) had this gem:
“I have a hard time taking someone serious when they [...]
This whole ‘Anonymous takes on the Scientologists’ thing is giving me the creeps. Who sits on the invisible pigeon-holing committee that says this is grand and the intarwub chimes in that Anon is just in it for the ‘lulz’ and the ‘hates’ so that makes it alright?
Reading Peak Everything by Heinberg, I realise I’m probably getting a bit too good at the topic when I know who he’s quoting without looking at the footnotes.
I have once again over-committed myself and cannot spend much time blogging. This seems to have coincided with Cobweb blowing up into a default blue-and-white mess that is no longer riddled with viruses. I have every confidence that uber will be able to restore us to non-default happiness in due course.
Although I have little [...]