The Best Selfie Ever

No, not a shot of me.

The "blue dot" story of Sagan, NASA and Voyager, by the BBC.

WTHeck, Government?

Before the shutdown, everybody said they "didn't know" if the government was going to shut down.

But look:

Photo from BBC News

They had all these nice, neat professional signs designed and printed? That doesn't take 5 minutes. They wanted this and planned this!

When did this become acceptable? I'm annoyed.

Boundary of Heaven, Reach of the Gods

I, Robot

You want to read this book.

This is a poster for the movie Ghost in the Shell. Like the movie I, Robot it has absolutely nothing to do with the book I, Robot other than it has robots in it. It also has a naked lady. I have noticed that naked ladies attract people to blogs. I know it works on me.

Hiatus: Some Geological Truths May Never Be Known...

A hiatus in geology is a significant interval of time where there is no rock record in an area. The boundary between the two beds is called an unconformity. Here a granite deposited 1,100 million years ago is directly touching a 500 million sandstone.  This unconformity represents a 600 million year hiatus.

An Ode to My New Table

"An Ode to My New Table"

---or---

"My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Living Room"

When People Ask...

When people ask "How can you get lost in a town of 30,000 people?," this is why.

"South. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means..."