‘Thursday’ Archives
While I was out…
I've been away from the blog for a while. Needless to say, lots going on. One of those things, I'm sad to admit, has been video games. When there is a lot going on in your personal life that you don't want to deal with might need a break from dealing with, it's not uncommon to seek some escapism in a fantasy world. It's why entertainment still [...]
IBM uses supercomputer to model cat’s brain
Because it's Thursday Friday cat is in your PC, stealing your RAMZ. IBM and Stanford University have reportedly modeled the complete cerebral cortex of a cat using the Blue Gene supercomputer. No word yet on whether the computer gets upset and pees in front of your door if you don't spend enough time playing solitaire with it.
More witchcraft hysteria
So... I guess I really have to admit that the Thursday blog has turned into an Every-Other-Friday blog as of late. I had a good friend who used to say "a bad excuse is better than no excuse." Right now, though, my only excuse is "I've been crazy busy and preoccupied." Lame, I know. But an excuse, nonetheless. So for this edition of the [...]
Bigfoot Jumps the Shark (?)
This Thursday, I'm just wondering... is MK Davis the Andy Kaufman of the Bigfoot world? Is the Bluff Creek Massacre story his slow-burn version of wrestling Freddie Blassie? I really hope so. I'd love to be able to actually sit back and comfortably chuckle at the strangeness of it all. I mean, personally, I see the same twisted logic in the [...]
Lessons from the police; tasering cripples is good, bestiality is better, and if you must grope your server don’t dare tip her.
I have been remiss in my Thursday duties of late. I realize this and I'm sorry. I'll say only that "real life" (i.e. the stuff you have to do to pay those pesky bills) has been very busy of late and beg your pardon for my slacking. But I'm here, a day late and a dollar short as my dad would say, and I've got some interesting links. And by [...]
I’m too busy playing video games to do a Thursday post
So instead go check out this new MMO under development by Funcom (the folks who brought us the Age of Conan MMO). Set in the modern world, it's based on the premise that, besides the everyday world we all know, a Secret World of demons, monsters, and shadowy secret societies and conspiracies exists and exerts a very real influence on the "real" [...]
On the road again
So, not much to share this Thursday. I'll spend most of the day on airplanes today until I land in Columbus, OH, jump in my mom's van, and head south toward Kentucky. I'll be in the Ohio River Valley for the extended weekend with my family. The same "neck of the woods" that's home to Mothman, the Serpent Mound, the Tremper Mound effigy pipes, [...]
African Witch Stories
Some of my favorite news stories come out of sub-Saharan Africa. When looking at African newspapers (or news sites in our modern digital world) it isn't uncommon to see a story on the development of environmentally friendly technology solutions like solar powered laptops and cooking stoves that run on recycled paper pellets sharing space with [...]
Repub-Logan’s Run
The latest paranoia drenched half-truth to emerge in an apparent GOP race to the bottom is a doozy. A guest on former Senator Fred Thompson's radio show, Betsy McCaughey, stirs up the scare factor by claiming that on page 425 of the massive HR 3200 is a provision requiring seniors to go through "mandatory" counseling that encourages them to end [...]
Signs of the Econopocalypse part 1
In Latvia, folks desperate to pay their rent and other mounting costs aren't quite selling their souls, yet; but they are mortgaging them according to a story from Reuters. (My apologies as well. I meant to post this yesterday, but work got kind of busy. I hope no one got too bored without their Thursday fix and sold their soul on a whim.)
