In the interest of Intelligent Design, the Kansas education board has redefined science.
… the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.
This is really, really sad. This is backsliding on hundreds of years of progress.
In other news, even the Vatican supports Evolution.
Let me just remind you that Evolution is a fact, not a theory.
I’m going to go to sleep VERY soon. Three bits of information.
| Sleep | Water | Exercise | Coffee | Alcohol |
| 05:40 h | 2.200 L (est) | 18:51 min | 1/4 cup(s) | 1 drink(s) |
Long, busy, and productive day. Goodnight intarweb.
There’s a link to this article over on Marginal Revolution about the reptilian glee of destruction, fire, explosions, and so on. I’ve often thought about trying to start a recreation center full of old junk and tools of destruction near Tulane. One would suspect there’s a market for it with all of the deadlines, homework, pressure from parents, grading, etc that take place in a university setting. I heard somewhere that places like this exist in Japan, but I don’t have any confirmation of that. Do you?
Today was quite a long day. I was at work for almost 12 hours, a good 9 of which were hard work.
I’m too beat to make much of an entry… Oh, and I put my film cover on the iPod nano. It’s static-cling which is nice, because it can be re-seated at any time.
Also, headphones with a built-in iPod nano dock. Mmmm.
Here’re the stats:
| Sleep | Water | Exercise | Coffee | Alcohol |
| 07:00 h | 2.652 L | 18:51 min | 3/4 cup(s) | 3 drink(s) |
There was wine at the seminar today.
It was certainly a day of laundry. A day of going up and down three flights of stairs every 10-20 minutes becuase our washer doesn’t pull cold water on its own — I have to put it in with a hose. It does work, though, and it’s free. The dryer is fantastic, but after around four or five loads in a row it overheats, and won’t run for an hour. But wow, gas dryers are fast!
In other news, today I finished moving non-backup files off of my backup drive. Everything is falling into place. There was a lot of file moving going on, but I’m almost done setting up complete, automatic, daily backups of every home directory on every machine, cluster, etc that I use. That should complete my data-related peace of mind.
Not much else to say. I did some shopping today. I bought more clothes. I got a bit annoyed by the constant up-selling of store-brand credit cards. Fools. They don’t want me as a credit card customer anyway. I always pay my balance in full. Credit card companies refer to people who do that as ‘deadbeats’. Funny, eh?
Stats!
| Sleep | Water | Exercise | Coffee | Alcohol |
| 08:30 h | 2.940 L | 02:00 min | 1/2 cup(s) | 1 drink(s) |
No running, today was another break for my legs. Back on the horse at 05:15 sharp tomorrow. Lots of water. I’ve been doing a lot today, and sweating a bit. I think that’s why. One glass of Turning Leaf Sauvignon Blanc for dinner. I was disappointed, it’s a bit bitter. That’s all folks, time for bed.