Category Archives: Science/Engineering

I Hate Apple

With Microsoft, that terrible monopoly according to the Starbucks crowd, there’s always a solution. With Apple, there’s always a roadblock.

Trying to move Mrs Charms’ iTunes files from the old computer to the new one requires a free utility called iTunes Export. So far so good. Which leads me to its compressed download which leads me to the alert that Stuffit needs to download its latest version which leads me to the news that this latest version, without which Export will not open, costs $49.99. I hate Apple.

Infrared Andromeda

andromeda_wise900Twice the diameter of our Milky Way. Largest galaxy in the Local Group.

Texas suit against EPA

I’m glad Gov. Perry and AG Abbott are  suing to stop Obamalot’s EPA from damaging the Texas and U.S. economies in pursuit of resolving, at best, speculative man-made global warming. Hanging the suit on the credibility of EPA’s reliance on the IPCC report looks smart.

But it seems that whether the agency’s planned intervention survives will depend largely on a 2007 supreme court decision allowing it to claim carbon dioxide is a health-damaging pollutant. To reverse that would take another suit entirely, though it might be done on appeal if the Texas suit is turned back for that or some allied reason.

MORE:  Whatever the legacy media thinks about it, Texas has done everybody a favor in trying to stop the EPA’s runaway regulation train.

Build Your Own Solar Panel

That’s good advice, really, especially if you can weasel a government subsidy for it out of your local congressman. How do you think T. Boone Pickens plans to make money off wind power? Ain’t going to be in the profits, folks. Them’s fantasies.

The proof? This amazing article in American Thinker which has tracked down evidence that the alternative energy shuck so beloved by Obamalot and kibitzers at Starbucks, is bankrupting Europe and its practitioners are trying desperately to move it to our shores.

For the federal subsidies the Dems want to pay. While we already have abandoned wind farms in Hawaii and California that never paid their way after the subsidies expired. For one thing, the maintenance costs were too high. Let’s face it. If alternative energy was real it would be available to all without help from Henry Waxman. So get crackin’ on that solar panel and write your congressman for some of that stimulus money. You can’t make it pay otherwise.

Hitler on Climate Change

Yes, yes, the old Hitler parody probably has run its course. But, just for old times’ sake, once more… With feeling… Hee.

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America’s Cup

Great fun watching the live stream (archived video, actually) of the 90-foot-long trimaran races off Valencia, Spain. Giant boats with crews scurrying about like ants, as they fly down the course on one leeward hull or the other, even in light air. The USA team, BMW Oracle Racing, won the first race against a Swiss boat. More to come.