For all you math geeks

Pi, played on the piano. Hat tip to Jeff Hess

The drugs made him do it

From Faux News, a voice out of my nightmares. A commentator and guest claim that it was drugs that made Cho go on a rampage at Va Tech. No, not the illegal kind. Antidepressants. Warning: if you’re feeling the least bit shaky right now, pass on the video. It’s very upsetting. I changed my mind [...]

Nickled and dimed

After over 55 years of service, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge is being replaced. (It was rebuilt after it’s historic wave collapse in 1940.) Because of a shortage of public money, this time around much of the construction cost will be self-funded in the form of a $1.50 toll, collected each time it’s used. Sounds reasonable. [...]

Pear tree in bloom

I’m emotionally burned out from the NASPER piece, so blogging has been difficult this last few days. So instead, here’s some signs of spring, late though it is. My miniature pear tree is only about 6′ tall, but bears about 2 dozen fruit every summer. The rest of the time, it’s content being beautiful in [...]

Cherry tree in bloom

This huge Bing Cherry tree technically lives in my neighbor’s yard, but several large branches hang over my fence and we have a deal – what’s on my side, I get to pick. The blooms are already dying back to produce fruit, so by the first of July I should be picking dark, sweet cherries, [...]

Im in ur medicine cabinet, counting ur drugz

Help!

I need the Grammar Patrol. Can anyone give me an easy rule on when to use affect/effect? Every time I need one of those words I look it up on Merriam-Webster, and even from the definitions I can’t figure it out. Help, please?

Thinking Blogger Awards

Helen of Windows Toward the World gave me a Thinking Blogger Award, saying, “My fourth Thinking Blogger Award goes to Terry, who presents some alternate views concerning people and places. Terry makes me think. Thanks, Terry.” In response, I’m to give out 5 of my own. This is tough. I wish I could give them [...]

Diabetes and depression

From Reuters: Elderly people who are depressed are more likely to become diabetic than those who are not, according to a study that suggests depression may play a role in causing the most common form of diabetes. Writing on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the researchers said people with a high number of [...]

8 Deady Sins of Email

From the Seattle PI: 8 DEADLY SINS OF E-MAIL The e-mail that’s unbelievably vague. “Where’s Bill?” The e-mail that insults you so badly, you have to get up from your desk. “From what planet do you reside?” E-mails that encourage cowardice. It is never OK to fire someone or break off a relationship this way. [...]

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