Moonbase

     I'm all for space travel and exploration.  I'd love for future generations to colonize the moon and other planets. I'm an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy and things about outer space.

But Newt Gingrich is an idiot.

I submit to you first Neil Degrasse Tyson, everyones favorite astrophysicist:

Linky

I submit to you second the argument that an American Moonbase is against the law. Not just any law, mind you. It's against SPACE LAW! 

I submit to you third that even Warren Ellis thinks he's full of bullshit.

I don't normally get into politics on this blog. However, I hold firmly the opinion that Newt Gingrich is an idiot. It's nice to know that smart people like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Warren Ellis agree with me.

Grumpy Post

[Beware: snark ahead]

I hate it when people say "When I was a kid we didn't have [enter name of modern concept or technological device here]" 

Edison's kids said the same thing about electricity. 

It's called progress folks.  Move with the times.

[end rant]

Stop SOPA

Confused by what's happening today or what all the fuss is about?

Reddit, Wil Wheaton, and Warren Ellis (for those of you outside the US) - among many others - have pretty good explanations. 

Go. Read and inform yourself.

Then hie thee to Wikipedia, type in your zip code, and tell your local representative not to support S.968.

Thoughts in January

     It is approximately the middle of January. While we have only recently gotten our first snowfall of the season (thank you, global warming,) typically by this point in the winter we've been covered in snow for about two months.

     I hate it.


     I know, living in New England as I do, I should be used to the snow and the cold and everything New England winters bring. I'm not. People tell me I ought to take up skiing or snow boarding or some other winter sport.  I don't.


     I try to be more optimistic about it. Winter helps us enjoy summer more by comparison, right? And it's pretty, in a way.  For a little while.  Until it gets dirty and slushy and disgusting.  And we get to have nostalgic, Norman Rockwell Christmases.

 
     Norman Rockwell Christmases are over-rated.


    I try to keep my head down and trudge along in January.  Try not to think too much about it.  In February, I'm grateful for the short month; March I spend trying to catch whiffs of Spring in the air; April, I scan the forecast every day for warmer temperatures.

    There is very little to keep my hopes up in January.  Just the idea that I have two and a half more long months (at least) to get through until Spring.