March Madness
Its a strange world when UNC doesn't make it to the NCAA tournament and UC Santa Barbara does.
A new way to think about legal reform
Ted had another conference and I've been watching many of the presentations. Philip Howard goes beyond simply talking about tort reform and addresses the core problem with law in our society.
Holi 2010 pictures
You know what religions are missing? Parties... and really good ones.
Christianity? Islam? Top this.
Sanity from teachers unions?
From The New York Times:
OP-ED COLUMNIST: A Serious Proposal The American Federation of Teachers should follow its president’srecommendation to accept a form of teacher evaluation that takes
student achievement into account. http://s.nyt.com/u/rC5
-Travis
San Francisco. The worst run big city in the US
A depressing but enlightening article about the woes of San Francisco.
40 year annaversary of the exploding whale
Yes, you've probably seen it before but every time I see it it brings me to tears of laughter.
"Well I'm confident that it will work. The only thing is we're not exactly sure how much.. uh... explosives it will take to disintegrate this thing." http://www.asylum.com/2009/11/25/exploding-whale-video-reporter-looks-back-4-decades-later/Apollo vs LHC
I've always been envious of the awe that kids felt during the days of the Apollo missions. I think the LHC provides us with a taste of what it must have been like to see technology on such a scale. This thing is simply beautiful.
Great pictures here:http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/large_hadron_collider_ready_to.html
Meeting Owen
We met Owen today.
Pictures here: http://towhead.smugmug.com/Family/Meeting-Owen-1/10095644_RnCRk#692954755_jBPsBHawaii Photos
Hawaii
Pigeon in airport terminal.
You can take the island out of its agrarian past but you can't take the agrarian past out of the island.
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