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Kucinich is trying to impeach Bush? Just barely saw it mentioned so I don't really know what the straight and narrow of it is (do you ever with politics?) but I think I'll go with... yay? Hopefully something positive will come of it. (Sad statement that we've impeached our last two presidents though? I dunno.)
Anyway, I think I'll be trying to blog more now, get back to linkspamish type stuff. For a while I let off that because I was trying to get more personal journaling in, but I read an interesting article yesterday talking about making your time on the internet more productive, and one way to do that is to pass on news and articles you find interesting to other people. I certainly find this true with Cleolinda, it's one reason I read her journal. Pretty concise version of Hollywood, which is about all I can handle.
My guess is you'll get lots of sciency and dorky things from me with the equivalent doomsday political things. I really hate politics because it seems like a totally different way of thinking. Like politicians now are just out to convince the masses for their vote, then do what they please, and that thinking does not at all fit with mine. I just feel lost when I talk about politics... ugh. Anyway. Yay science! =D
I can't remember, did I link to an article about nanomaterials lately? Anyway, they made this substance out of nanothreads that looks exactly like a paper towel, but ONLY soaks up oil, not water. HOLY FREAKING YAY =D
This piece of art is pretty cool, but it's an interesting statement that I think the architecture is more interesting than the ships. http://atris.cgsociety.org/gallery/347135 It's weird, as an engineer, half of steampunk is superawesome and half of it is super annoying. The awesome part is the INCREDIBLY stylish functioning things. Plus, the functions are usually mechanical rather than complicated electrical things, which is something I can grasp. The part that annoys me? Steampunk is based heavily on science that doesn't exist, but people ignore that fact and just sort of draw something, add some gears, and call it steampunk. If it doesn't look like it would function, and you don't have some reasoning behind it, I'm probably not going to like it much. I hate getting anal retentive about stuff, but... GRR. My brain has worked that way--logically, mechanically-- all my life. I don't know if I can help it at all.
Related: drafting tables as fashion. Pfft! What good is a drafting table if you can't draft on it? (Seriously, there were a few links to "architects' desks" that didn't adjust. wut)
How to take good group photos. I rather like this article, as well as this one. I'll have to give it a try.
Anyway, here was the article about getting more value from your web time. I have to check out FoldIt, down at the bottom. I'm not much for games anymore (I just waste my time reading articles online instead...), but a game that would help science? Oh hell yeah. (Impossibly better than running SETI on your extra CPU cycles. [CPU? Is that the right term? My brain is on the fritz at the moment.] I think running SETI might still qualify as nerdier though, in a sort of helpless sort of way. (Nerds and geeks and dorks need a word derrogatory for the real social outcasts, the people who just creep you out. If you're wondering why, running SETI does that a little for me. It's pretty easy to get from "running SETI" to "fucking psycopath" in my mind.)
I think that's all for now.
Anyway, I think I'll be trying to blog more now, get back to linkspamish type stuff. For a while I let off that because I was trying to get more personal journaling in, but I read an interesting article yesterday talking about making your time on the internet more productive, and one way to do that is to pass on news and articles you find interesting to other people. I certainly find this true with Cleolinda, it's one reason I read her journal. Pretty concise version of Hollywood, which is about all I can handle.
My guess is you'll get lots of sciency and dorky things from me with the equivalent doomsday political things. I really hate politics because it seems like a totally different way of thinking. Like politicians now are just out to convince the masses for their vote, then do what they please, and that thinking does not at all fit with mine. I just feel lost when I talk about politics... ugh. Anyway. Yay science! =D
I can't remember, did I link to an article about nanomaterials lately? Anyway, they made this substance out of nanothreads that looks exactly like a paper towel, but ONLY soaks up oil, not water. HOLY FREAKING YAY =D
This piece of art is pretty cool, but it's an interesting statement that I think the architecture is more interesting than the ships. http://atris.cgsociety.org/gallery/347135 It's weird, as an engineer, half of steampunk is superawesome and half of it is super annoying. The awesome part is the INCREDIBLY stylish functioning things. Plus, the functions are usually mechanical rather than complicated electrical things, which is something I can grasp. The part that annoys me? Steampunk is based heavily on science that doesn't exist, but people ignore that fact and just sort of draw something, add some gears, and call it steampunk. If it doesn't look like it would function, and you don't have some reasoning behind it, I'm probably not going to like it much. I hate getting anal retentive about stuff, but... GRR. My brain has worked that way--logically, mechanically-- all my life. I don't know if I can help it at all.
Related: drafting tables as fashion. Pfft! What good is a drafting table if you can't draft on it? (Seriously, there were a few links to "architects' desks" that didn't adjust. wut)
How to take good group photos. I rather like this article, as well as this one. I'll have to give it a try.
Anyway, here was the article about getting more value from your web time. I have to check out FoldIt, down at the bottom. I'm not much for games anymore (I just waste my time reading articles online instead...), but a game that would help science? Oh hell yeah. (Impossibly better than running SETI on your extra CPU cycles. [CPU? Is that the right term? My brain is on the fritz at the moment.] I think running SETI might still qualify as nerdier though, in a sort of helpless sort of way. (Nerds and geeks and dorks need a word derrogatory for the real social outcasts, the people who just creep you out. If you're wondering why, running SETI does that a little for me. It's pretty easy to get from "running SETI" to "fucking psycopath" in my mind.)
I think that's all for now.
