Posts Tagged ‘Nova’

Why Do Americans Fail To Understand Science?

This morning I was listening to the Minnesota Public Radio Midmorning podcast. In particular, I was listening to a discussion of the topic “New polls indicates a dim view of U.S. scientific achievement” (listen to it here). The short of it is, there is a new poll that found (surprise!) the vast majority [...]

Live Blogging First Listen: Wilco (The Album)

I am about to listen to Wilco (the Album) for the first time.  I have decided to live blog the experience here.
Wilco is probably my favorite band currently active so getting a new Wilco album and giving it a first listen is a pretty big treat, but I also know that new albums nearly always [...]

Writer

For the last five years I have been in flux. It began when, after 30 years around Jehovah’s Witnesses, my faith shattered and I became a freethinker, humanist and secular Buddhist. I reprogrammed myself, or more accurately, re-educated myself. I studied more broad than deep. My goal wasn’t to become [...]

A History of My Guitars

And now for something completely different…
When I was in 4th grade I decided to follow in my big brother Rhett’s footsteps and join school band. He had played percussion and I chose french horn. Now, if you know me you know I am not a french horn player but rather a guitarist. [...]

Home

Lord I feel like going home
I’ve tried and I’ve failed
and I’m tired and weary
everything I’ve ever done is wrong
and I feel like going home
I don’t know if any concept has ever resonated with me more deeply than home. Ironically, however, most of the people who know me would probably be surprised to hear that. [...]

iPhone Development II (Electric Boogaloo)

Well, as Anthony has pointed out, Apple has decided not to allow 3rd party iPhone apps.  So much for my prediction.
At first I was surprised and then I realized that perhaps I just got a little overly optimistic about Apple’s ideals.  After all, they’ve never opened the iPod up for 3rd party development either.  Tech [...]

Blogging the Rolling Stone Top 500: 494-500

Blogging the Rolling Stone Top 500: #494 – “She’s So Unusual” by Cyndi Lauper
I wasn’t sure I wanted to listen to this one. I remember the brief world of Cyndi Lauper hysteria, the Cyndi Lauper jokes, the frenetic videos on MTV. I was sure it would seem really dated, really cheesy, and well, it did [...]

i can’t dance

This morning I got up as usual and left Amanda and Syd at home. Syd is sick with a cold so I let him take the day off of school. On my way into the office I was listening to the radio and they had one of the members of The Trashmen on. In case [...]