We are back from our vacation in Michigan. No car trouble this time, thank God. We took both cars, and our new AAA cards, just in case.
We took a short swim in Lake Superior between Marquette and Munising. The water temperature was in the low 40’s, I think. Not shiveringly cold […]
This page was a big help when I was altering the sleeves on my wedding dress from huge and pouffy to smaller and straighter. The chapter starts out with basic sleeve pattern drafting, and gets into foofier and foofier shapes as you scroll down.
I had a lot of fun fixing up and altering my […]
I came across this through the Anchoress. A very good essay on being skeptical about evolution.
An excerpt:
Consequently, discussion often turns to vague and murky assertion. Starlings are said to have evolved to be the color of dirt so that hawks can’t see them to eat them. This is plausible. But guacamayos and […]
It’s also Donald Trump’s birthday.
Better yet, it’s my birthday too.
MFH gave me a Hipster PDA, and a Maui Xaphoon bamboo sax! He also baked me a Wacky Cake.
I’ve added a link at the right for the Intuitor Movie Physics site. Good explanations of where movies commonly get the physics wrong. Some reviews as well; “The Core” is called the Worst Physics Movie Ever.
See here and here for Heather Mac Donald’s sharply-worded description of Harvard’s new diversity efforts.
Maybe it’s time for me to pull out my CV and toss them an application. It’s only been a couple years since I leaked out of the scientist pipeline.
Nah, Harvard’s too far south for me. I need short summers […]
I’m becoming a big fan of the Ladies Against Feminism. This is their definition of feminism.
An excerpt:
Women who are against feminism are not against property, inheritance or educational “rights” for women, nor are we in favor of spousal abuse and “doormat-ism.” We believe that all of the “rights” and privileges we enjoy come straight […]
According to this column in the latest Minnesota Women’s Press, Minnesota women are headed back to the Dark Ages. Those evil “neocons” in the Legislature decided to eliminate the Legislative Commission on the Economic Status of Women. I don’t have a strong opinion on the value of the LCESW, although I think […]
Thomas Sowell hits the nail squarely on the head again:
People who wring their hands about a need for “affordable housing” seldom consider that the way to have affordable housing is to stop making it unaffordable. Foster City housing was affordable before the restrictive land use laws in this area made all housing astronomically expensive.
Contrary […]
My former pastor has a Psalm-reading cycle that gets through the book of Psalms in a month: take the day of the month, read that psalm, and then keep adding 30. So today I read Psalms 1, 31, 61, 91, and 121. He said that he nearly always finds something in them that […]