Hmmm. For all we know, we’re all living inside God’s computer right now.

…as therobot that carried out a long-distance heart operation by itself. That’s got to be a little nervewracking if you’re the one under the scalpel.

You don’t always have your shiny new digital SLR…or even your palm-sized 5 megapixel…or even your five-year-old one-megapixel camera on you. Sometimes, all you’ve got is the camera in your cellphone. Like today…

When it’s just a modern human with a pathological condition.

Cy Feuer has died at age 95. You may not have heard of him, but you’ve probably heard of some of the shows he produced, especially Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He (and co-producer Ernest H. Martin) also introduced such great Broadway talents as Gwen Verdon and Julie …

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This has to be the patent application of the year: BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0001] This invention is a system that teleports a human being through hyperspace from one location to another using a pulsed gravitational wave traveling through hyperspace. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The basis for this invention is an event, referring …

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Too busy to blog today, but not too busy to continue getting used to my new camera. More photos (though none are from the new camera yet) here.

Well, I took the plunge and upgraded to a digital SLR: a Canon Rebel XT. 8 megapixels and lots of bells and whistles, but still reasonably affordable and plenty of camera for my needs. Plus I knew pretty much how to use it right out of the box, since its interface is very similar to …

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It’s been a long time since I was involved in a science fair. When I was seven, I put the microscope I’d just gotten for Christmas on display alongside a “dissected” fish…or maybe it was a frog. By the time I was done with it, I doubt anyone could tell. Alas, I think first prize …

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Not much blogging today, because I’ve been out pretty much all day. And no photo of the day because……my trusty Canon S50 has quit working. Well, that’s not quite true–it still works, it just won’t communicate with the memory card. Any memory card. So off it goes for a multi-week outing at the end of …

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Happy mother’s day to my Mom, Nina Mae (Spears) Willett. We just celebrated her 80th birthday earlier this month. Here she is in 1948, the year she turned 22. Not hard to see what Dad saw in her!

Ben MacIntyre of The Times of London explains what the oft-used phrases of book reviewers really mean. (Via Normblog.)