So, two days ago some miners were trapped underground in Utah. The Fox reporter covering the incident said that a 2-inch hole was being drilled down to them–adding that, of course, it would not be used to extract them. How did that even become a consideration? Can you picture the first miner being pulled though …
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I ordered the second season of The Muppet Show on DVD today–I can only hope it’s as good as the first one! I also ordered a copy of the first season of The Dresden Files. I remain cautiously optimistic, but I’ve looked on IMDB, and it looks like they’ve changed quite a bit from the …
I had my first really good field day at my new house last night. I had to quit after the kitchen and half of the living room, though; I ran out of room in my 50-gallon trash can. I found a bunch of my old pictures; hopefully I’ll be posting them here shortly.Tonight I’ll be …
A Hero Fallen
On Saturday, 14 July 2007, my grandfather was buried. A survivor of Omaha Beach and the Korean War, he was given a nine-gun salute by the National Guard Funeral Honors Detail. Friends and family came from all over the United States to remember him. — Jason C. Diederich
APFT Yesterday… Well, the day I have been dreading has come and gone. I took and passed my APFT yesterday, although I did not do well. My waist size had increased quite a bit I have been moving and changing shifts constantly; I just barely made my 24% allowed bodyfat.Further, although my counter never said …
Spineless Eunuchs
I saw the coolest thing Thursday night. I was driving home from my apartment in Columbia, which I was cleaning out. I passed a group of spineless eunuchs… I mean, protesters, doing a FOURTH OF JULY protest, of all things. They were holding signs like “Oil is War” and “Honk for Peace.” They managed to …
Post on Scientific Article
Posted at: http://cosmicvariance.com/2007/06/04/it-does-matter-what-people-think-about-how-the-world-works/—–On the subject of virgin birth:http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dp5/sex2.htm On the idea that scientific propositions are never provably true or false: this is absolutely incorrect. Hypotheses *must* be provably false; that is the primary mechanism of scientific inquiry. It is the very fact that Mr. Brownback’s statement is *not* provably false that makes it unscientific. On …
27 Dec 2006
http://danoday.com/chickenman/chickenman.shtml He is on CD!!!
8 Dec 2006
Hello, everyone! I was speaking with one of my friends at work the other day about resources on the internet regarding self-initiation; he said he’d considered it, but it always sounded too erotic to him. I said that if he found the word “self” too erotic, he’d been single longer than I had… A hip-hop …
27 November, 2006
Happy Belated Thanksgiving, everybody! Well, it seems as though just a week ago I was in Hannibal, and now it is time for drill again… Oh, wait; that was a week ago. On the up side, this is just a one-day drill, so that everyone can drink themselves stupid at the Christmas party and not …
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