Have a great time! It's one of those things I've always wanted to do...
- Georgia
from iPhone
Don't forget a sweater, just in case it gets cold at night!
- Gabe
Yeah! And you might want to bring some goggles just in case it gets sandy! And you might want to bring some water just in case you get thirsty!
- Akiva
It will definitely be cold at night. Paul and I will be donning our fur hooded coats.
- April Buchheit
Definitely, Akiva. This will be my 4th burn (6th for Paul, I think), so we're no strangers to the elements.
- April Buchheit
I've heard it will be dusty this year.
- Brian Johns
You might want to bring some food in case you get hungry! You might want to... oh, you probably left already.
- Stephen Mack
"I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer - not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition - a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class...
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- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change. We are not enlivened by an educational system that clandestinely sets us up for jobs that could be automated, for work that need not be done, for enslavement without...
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- April Buchheit
"When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles. "I can see if people are busy on something -- and then won't interrupt them," he said this week. "Or, you know, if they're doing something that looks interesting, or if they look stuck, I'll have a conversation with them." This isn't your standard "Office Space" conversation. Blackwell boots up a "telepresence robot" -- which looks like a combination between a Segway and Johnny 5 from those "Short Circuit" movies -- to talk to his employees from his home, 10 miles from Anybots' office in Mountain Home, California."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I remember HP had an experimental version that had something like eight LCD screens so you could "walk" around the office and people would be able to ID you by your head.
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
Hazel doesn't understand why her grandparent's puppies will eat anything she gives them, but her kitty at home doesn't want the toast she is trying to share...
"These two dogs are more than just best friends, they share a rare bond. Ellie, a young cavalier King Charles spaniel in England, is almost completely blind. While her owner and a local animal organization are working to raise money for a vision-restoring operation, a German shepherd named Leo has taken matters into his own paws, and is protecting and guiding her. "Ellie has cataracts on both eyes and is only aware of shadows," explains Jean Spencer, manager of Rochdale's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in an interview with the Manchester Evening News. "But Leo, who's an absolutely massive dog, has become her eyes. It's touching to watch them together. She follows him around and snuggles up to him.""
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"The relationship in each box is what that person's relationship would be to you, where you are "Self." As you can see, you, your siblings, your 1st cousins, 2nd cousins, etc., are all in the same generation. Thus, "once removed" means "one generation removed.""
- April Buchheit
Which gives rise to the perpetual plaint about visiting relatives, "If they're my 2nd cousins once removed, couldn't they be removed again?"
- Ruchira S. Datta
Paul, the parent of your Nth cousin is the (N-1)th cousin of your parent. Go in the child direction and it doesn't work that way.
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks! The surprise to me is that I knew my dad's cousin was my cousin once removed but I didn't know my cousin's children are cousins once removed as well. Sorta makes me wish for the Scandinavian names which are very precise: Mormor is your maternal grandmother. Farmor is your paternal grandmother. I wonder if their cousin words are as precise...
- Spidra Webster
this is the silver lining to getting sick. I can show you how to stick a thermometer near a light bulb in case you ever want to get "sick" again ...
- Laura Norvig
Wow.. just ... wow... what a magical moment..
- Andrew Terry
Joe: How did Theo's hearing loss resolve itself? Glad to hear that all is well with him now. :)
- April Buchheit
It isn't clear what happened to be honest. He was born without a thyroid. Our best theory is that it was secondary to that and that getting him on levothyroxine right away is what caused it to resolve. Our endocrinologist isn't buying it but no one has any other explanation. Not a day goes buy when I don't realize how lucky we are. Those first couple of weeks with him were terrifying....
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- Joe Beda
I am not an expert, but I worked in a lab which did research on children with cochlear implants. One thing I learned is that the development of the ears and some of the organs in the midsection are related. I also learned that there is no research that has shown that having a cochlear implant in both ears is better than just one ear. However, there is good reason to assume that the...
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- Robert Felty
"A 9-microsecond exposure of a balloon shot with an air pistol. The balloon is water-filled and the pellet is caught before tearing and exiting the balloon on the left."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
It's funny how when I read emails from certain people it's as if I can hear their voice. Their personality is just so big, it comes through in their 'written' correspondences.
"Good news, everyone! I've invented a device that makes you hear my words in your head, in my voice!"
- Kevin Fox
"Good news, everyone! Those asinine morons who canceled us were themselves fired for incompetence. And not just fired, but beaten up, too... and pretty badly. In fact, most of them died from their injuries. And then they were ground up into a fine pink powder."
- Otto