February 2012

Elsewhere

• Amen...
  Amen...: Generation X is tired. It’s a parent now, and there’s always so damn much to do. Generation X wishes it had better health insurance and a deeper savings account. It wonders where its 30s went. It wonders if it still has time to catch up. […]
• Fire!
  Exciting evening at the Oelkers farmstead - our very own wildfire. Lynn called me around 3ish to let me know that there was an out of control fire in a field across the road from our little place in the country, and today’s gusty winds blew the embers all over the place. Including the soybean fields surrounding our home! A whole squadron of firefighters were […]
• Anyone else finding a few thousand jumbo popsicle sticks in...
  Anyone else finding a few thousand jumbo popsicle sticks in their shopping cart? ;) […]
• Truths About Organic Farming
  Truths About Organic Farming: Some actual long-term research concerning the viability of organic versus conventional farming - not funded by someone with major financial interests in the answers pointing in a particular direction - yields some interesting results. The real question is, why haven’t I heard more about a study like this? […]
• Particle Accelerator Gets Taken Off Life Support
  Particle Accelerator Gets Taken Off Life Support: Way heavier science than I will ever understand has taken place in places like this, with who knows how many advances made in our communal knowledge. Hopefully the anti-science movement I sense in certain factions of today’s politics some day realizes that theoretical science doesn’t always remain in the theo […]