The Comet's Flame

Folks, I am thoroughly addicted to Star Trek Voyager. It is just amazing. Seriously, you need to go to your local library and check out Season 1 on DVD (or buy it online) right away. In the episode I watched today, some of the resident geniuses aboard Voyager (namely B’Elanna and Kim) were able to [...]

I recently watched Bee Movie on DVD. It seems that publicizing my opinions in a “review” type format tends to stifle reader response, so today we are going to try something different. You are going to tell me about the movie! Have you seen it? If so, what did you think of it?

Here’s an excellent live performance by The Fiery Furnaces! Check out the keyboard(s)!!

For my teaching assistant position at the U of I, part of my job involves checking to make sure that the students have satisfactorily completed their lab projects. For today’s lab, that involved timing several 25-second intervals. I was struck by just how long 25 seconds is! Then I started thinking about all the 25-second [...]

I decided that today would be a good day to start getting in shape. I ran 1 mile and walked 1 mile in less than 30 minutes (not too bad, considering that I haven’t exercised in a very long time). The only real difficulty was the wind. It was ridiculous!! The temperature would have been [...]

Perhaps you already know about the site Project Gutenberg. If not, you need to check it out, because it is one of the coolest ideas on the internet. Basically, it is an immense digital library containing the full texts of many literary works whose copyrights have expired (which includes the majority of classic novels). I [...]

Regardless of whether or not you agree with the political sentiment expressed in this song, I think that you will enjoy the music video by The Decemberists. It is pretty funny (in my opinion), and Colin Meloy (the lead singer) does a great job of acting.

As you may know, I help out with an Awana club at my church. Yesterday was the Awana Grand Prix event, in which the kids get to race small wooden cars of their own design. It was really fun, and all of the kids did an excellent job of designing, building, and/or painting their cars [...]

I made it snow today! By wearing my magical knit hat and wishing as hard as I could, I affected the weather! I am going to use my new-found power to make it winter all year ’round!

In addition to treasures #1 and #2, here’s something else I found when I was cleaning my room… a quiz I took in my Electronic Instrumentation class in 2006. It consisted of one question, and I scored 5/5 points. Check out my insightful answer, and see if you can guess what the question was (this [...]