Halite! Why have a mineral of the day? Why not! I am a Geology school drop-out after all! PS. I have a great photo of the stuff, but I’m still trying to figure out how to post jpegs and doo-dads on this thing.
Well, today I taught my first class as a substitute. Subbing is harder than you would think. It was an 8th grade computer science class. The day went well enough – no one died or got sent to the office, and I didn’t get flustered or freak when things didn’t go smoothly, like when I […]
Or maybe liberated… Mostly. Today marks the end of my life as a pool boy…. mostly! I sold most of my accounts to a fellow sole proprietor pool jockey this afternoon. I have for the longest time been bored and exhausted by the line of work I was in. Some background is in order. I […]
This aside, from an article explaining the physics problems Superman would have if he used his powers here on Earth: Marti points to a book called “Great Mambo Chicken,” which tells of a scientific experiment in which a researcher put several chickens in a centrifuge and raised them in twice-normal gravity for months at a […]