It’s 100 degrees here today. I have no specific memory of seeing a red-winged blackbird before this year. This year I’ve seen three. Isn’t that weird when you notice something like that? They’re selling Totino’s Pizza Rolls with a rerecording of Kim Wilde’s “Kids in America.” That was such a seminal pop song for me. … Read more
Quoting: On June 26, Bugatti test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel drove an orange-and-black Veyron 16.4 Super Sport to an average top speed of 268 mph (431 kph) at VW Group’s test facility at Ehra-Leissien. Representatives of Guinness World Records and the German Technical Inspection Agency – the keeper of such things in Deutschland – were … Read more
President Obama recently directed NASA administrator Charles Bolden to “find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.” This was “third, and perhaps foremost” in our president’s direction to Bolden. Y’all got … Read more