Entries from February 2008

22 February 2008

Random link propagation

Carmina Burana, alternate lyrics.

21 February 2008

live365

I don’t know why I haven’t checked out live365 before this, but I am doing so now. Given my tastes in music I’ve got to be at least somewhat pleased over a setup that brings us stations like:

New World Enigma Radio — Now featuring epic masterpieces, no track less than 10 minutes! From Frank [...]

15 February 2008

Syracuse Sporadic Cotswold Morris

It’s been 6 1/2 years, amazingly, since the demise of Salt Springs Morris, and since that time there’s been no Cotswold morris teams in the Syracuse area that take male dancers. Well, there’s GCM. But I’ve never succeeded in recruiting new dancers to that team.
The past few years I’ve thought maybe a seasonal team could [...]

8 February 2008

Colony at the far end of the galaxy, check…

One of the odd things about physics is that once in a while the tools created to attack one problem turn out to be useful in studying what might seem very different problems. Elementary particle theory, for instance, owes a fair amount to techniques developed in condensed matter physics.
It gets odder than that, though, because [...]

3 February 2008

Resolution review

January’s a stupid time for resolutions, isn’t it? The holidays are over and they’ve left you tired out. It’s cold and grey and just getting out of bed and going to work seems like a major accomplishment. And you’re supposed to improve yourself? Of course summer would probably be even worse, since you’re too busy [...]