Author: leilani

I’ve been hemming and hawing for a while about my cell phone.  I had a moderately old Blackberry that, while it looks like new, was ready for an upgrade.  I knew I was going to get a new phone, the only question was which new phone. Being the ultimate cheapskate, I made up my mind…

This morning I woke with a sense of purpose. Oh, all right, it had nothing to do with purpose.  It had to do with not being able to find jack shit in the fridge and knowing there were things there which were undoubtedly well on their way to becoming science experiments.  I pulled everything from…

Living in the Seattle/Vancouver area?  Or for that matter along the western coastal areas of the US and Canada?  Might want to consider a trip inland.  There was a 5.7 quake off the coast of BC about an hour ago and a 4.3 companion southward off the coast of Oregon roughly half an hour earlier. …

I thought this was cute: It’s part of a geek vandalism slideshow, the concept being that geeks are no less likely than anyone else to do stupid things like posting bills where told it’s not allowed; they just do it with a sense of humor.  For example: on the wall where it said “post no…

The more you know, the more you know you don’t really know at all.  Except if you’re a scientist, in which case you arbitrarily dismiss everything that can’t be measured, tested and experimented.  Until, that is, you find a way to experiment on the subject or you write a paper expounding millennia-old tenets as new…