Archive for October, 2009
Dan Brown and The Lost Symbol
Even if you aren’t an avid book reader, you’ve likely heard of and maybe even read The Da Vinci Code. Now, Dan Brown, author of those popular books about the Vatican, recently released a current bestseller titled The Lost Symbol. This time around though, instead of the Vatican, The Lost Symbol deals with those hard-to-figure-out [...]
Nobel Prize is the best kind of Prize ($$)
This year’s Nobel Prizes were announced over the past week or so. Prizes are awarded for Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and of course the most famous of all, the Nobel Peace Prize. In a shocker, it was just announced that President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. An appointed committee of [...]
8 Years of Afghanistan in 3 Minutes
Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, was the unfortunate site of a car bombing last night, killing at least a dozen people and leaving many injured. Almost eight years ago to the day, the United States led an invasion in Kabul to destroy the Taliban. Since then, not a week goes by without a headline about U.S. [...]
Rings around a planet, pocket full of…
Around my house, tonight’s dinner topics will involve the MLB playoffs if I have anything to say about it, but I suppose you should know about another interesting subject in the news, namely space. I’m not an astronomer, but I can tell you that a big giant telescope found another big giant ring around Saturn. [...]
Purple-clad Favre beats Packers (and everyone else)
Even if you’re not a football fan, water cooler talk this morning will undoubtedly include the Minnesota Vikings, led by new/old QB Brett Favre, defeating the Green Bay Packers last night on Monday Night Football. Favre played well against his former teammates, but if you’re looking for a new tidbit to throw out there while [...]
PDF, VCR, and VHS
Everyone knows what PDA stands for, but we use the acronym PDF a heck of a lot more in business situations. If you don’t, then I’d like a job at your place of work. Anyway, most people are familiar with PDFs – those attachments in emails, websites, etc. that are easy to read and navigate [...]
Ken Burns ≠ Michael Moore
There are two documentary filmmakers in the news right now, but they couldn’t be less similar. Ken Burns, best known for his Civil War series, just finished up his latest series, a 6-part, 12-hour piece called The National Parks. The final episode has been airing this week, but you can probably catch all of them [...]
Speed of Light
It’s a busy day, so today’s post will be written at the speed of light – well not quite that fast, but quickly nonetheless. Specifically, the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, or 700 million miles per hour. For you metric people (read: rest of the world), that’s about 300,000 kilometers per second. [...]
