Monthly Archives: January 2004

Ball tally clocks

A relative gave me a ball tally clock for Christmas and now my office percolates to the rattle of steel balls marking the advance of time. It sort of sounds like the servomotors inside a video cassette player or sheet … Continue reading

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Space Colonization

I’ve commented on this before but Bush’s recent big promises for piloted missions to the moon and mars prompts me to comment again. This is going to take so long, cost so much money and yield so little permanency, that … Continue reading

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The new year brings in the same depressing lack of progress

On Monday I just got back from a vacation down in Oregon–watched a lot of cable television while down there. I noticed that channels seem to be subdividing into het male and het female. Or something like that. For example, … Continue reading

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First Post of the New Year

Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you out there think that “Spirit” and “Opportunity” are incredibly stupid names for the rovers now photographing and crawling around Mars? The first one sounds like a glee club from high … Continue reading

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