Now that's a new flavor....

Kid, it works the same way in physics.

As seen at Emphatic Art School Owl:

Fourth Ward Cleaver is Up: Mardi Gras Issue

Right here!
So much more family-friendly than the last post.

Krewe du Vieux parade was...

... about everything you'd expect it to be, given a theme like "Crimes Against Nature."  Here's a listing of the sub-krewes and their float themes: http://www.kreweduvieux.org/subkrewes.html

I'm gonna go take some more aspirin 'bout now.

External FM Antenna

Put up a simple FM antenna last month – 60' of 18 gauge wire from Radio Shack, threaded through a couple of trees in the yard.  It's effectively invisible, it works, and it cost less than $10.  Pretty much an optimal solution.
And now I'm listening to WWOZ again.  Can't tell you how much I've missed that station.

Two States

Any questions?

Apollo 18 - the horror flick

The whole shaky-cam / found footage thing has been done to death, but this movie was surprisingly good.  The story was a B+ grade tale right out of the golden years of sci-fi, the action was (mostly) believable, and there were enough "holy crap, what was that?!?" moments to keep my interest – several of which revolved around space hardware.  Whoever wrote the script had a pretty good reading of Aviation Week, or at least the Wikipedia condensed version of it.

In the end, it is nothing more and nothing less than a competent monsters-in-space movie.  It was made, its viral marketing campaign didn't really take off, film critics (*sniff*) didn't get it, but it still made a little bit of money.  And there's nothing wrong with any of that.  If that sounds good to you, it's worth a rental.  3 out of 4 stars.