Great moments in science reporting

Granite has always contained some unknown amounts of uranium, which in it’s gas state is called radon. — KFDA NewsChannel 10, Amarillo, TX
Also, great moments in science reporting commentary:
Radon is NOT the gaseous form of Uranium. It IS the gaseous form of Radium. While both are radioactive they are separate elements on the [...]

Great moments in Visa customer service. Also God.

See last, parenthetical remark.
Also, I think counting arguments set a lower bound on God’s Algorithm for M12, in the worst case, of 22 moves. So there’s a bit of room for improvement on the limits…

Yay me

I finally found a solution to the M12 Puzzle from sciam.com. A hideously inefficient solution, but it works.
Spoilery remarks below.
Kriz and Siegel point out that the technique usually used with Rubik’s cube — finding sequences of moves that alter only a few cubies while leaving the rest alone, then using those sequences to put cubies [...]

Excess alcohol

I transferred the black raspberry wine today. There turned out to have been well over a gallon — somewhere between a pint and a quart more — and since I didn’t have a 5-quart jug, nor thought much of the idea of trying to set up a 1-quart secondary, the extra went down the drain. [...]

Give me a break

They couldn’t have gotten high resolution imagery one more mile to the west?

Horrible

Wine, wine

In back are five gallons of what started out as a Mezza Luna White from a kit I bought Heather for Christmas 2006. What with one thing and another she didn’t start it until a few weeks ago. When she racked to secondary the siphon slipped while unattended and about half the wine ended up [...]

Sixth, or, a home for the chickens

Flashback:
In 2003 Heather had two goat kids, living in a Rubbermaid shed they’d soon be able to kick to pieces. We were thinking it’d be nice to build a stall in the machine shed for them, but the machine shed was full of family crap. So we planned and started building a goat shed. We [...]

Fourth

Friday!
I cleaned out the rear entry, or at least the stuff on the floor — the shelves still need to be dealt with, but at least we can now navigate to the dryer without dislocating something. I mowed the lawn.
Heather’s mom, mom’s boyfriend, sister, sister’s husband, and sister’s two sons came over. (Heather’s mom and [...]

Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts.

“Bob” by Weird Al Yankovic has been on YouTube for two and a half years, but I just learned about it today. Check it out if you haven’t, but first watch Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” video. Then watch Weird Al’s “Bob”. Brilliant!