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July 18, 2007
Memory
While walking the dogs this evening I was listening to Radiolab's show on memory. It's really interesting. Coincidentally, I stumbled on a YouTube entry about being a paratrooper.
It's awesome.
It got me thinking about the Army. It was totally miserable, and yet I'm able to watch this silly video and laugh and remember some of the good times I had.
I vaguely remember the bad things the came in the Army, but I have vivid, lucent memories of the good times. Certainly the bad times were at least as intense, but I somehow remember them less strongly without completely suppressing them.
I've made semi-serious jokes about the secret to good marriage being forgetfulness. I wonder if the secret to a good life is forgetfulness.
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July 14, 2007
Guerrilla Shelvers
Literary Insurgency or Civil War?
Today at Barnes & Noble:
Shelved in the Math section: I Love Female Orgasm
Shelved in the Physics section: The Bible for Dummies
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July 13, 2007
Sometimes Behave so Strangely
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July 01, 2007
Is "Identified Flying Object" Redundant?
Last week I took an orbitology class at work and heard of a website called Heavens Above. Among other things, they allow people to track satellites.
Here is the link to the page I got the picture from. It shows the International Space Station (ISS) passing over my house while I was walking the dogs. If you look closely you can see the line transition from solid to dotted, indicating that the ISS was no longer visible.
Track data for the space shuttle is not available from NASA anymore, but it was widely reported that the shuttle detached from the ISS on the day I observed the "UFOs," so the trailing light was probably the shuttle.
Yup. That's why I get paid the big bucks.
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