Today I discovered John Boswell’s Symphony of Science website and his compilation of remixing of Carl Sagan‘s PBS Service Cosmos to electronic music — turning Carl’s scientific poetry into song. Sadly, it was only last year when I first discovered the Cosmos series, which was originally produced in 1980. Without question, Cosmos is the most …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Emma’s Xray
I gave my wife a cat for her birthday in December 2009. We saved her from a shelter and named her Emma. She’s had a mild cold since we got her (possible corrilation to our frozen heat pump), but she got worse this week. I took her to the vet today and here’s her xray. …
Frozen HVAC heat pump
This morning, I stepped outside and noticed that our HVAC unit (or heat pump) appeared to be frozen. I figured it was a problem since none of my neighbors’ units were surrounded by blocks of ice like ours was. Thankfully, I have a brother-in-law who engineered these things for a living. Here’s what he had …
Google’s new approach to China
When I read Google’s blog posting entitled “A new approach to China,” I thought of the famous “Tank Man” image — the 1989 photo of a single man standing up to four tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. While Google is much larger than a single man, it still doesn’t have any tanks. I swapped out …
Discover Card is far to needy
For the past six weeks, I have received two to five phone calls a day from the number (614) 283-3853. On the rare occasion that I did answer, it was always a pre-recorded message from Discover Card, leaving a pre-recorded voicemail message saying “This is Discover Card. Please call us back at (800) 347-0268.” Aside …