More snow is coming, and I am loving it. Tonight will be a slow and mellow new year’s eve, looking forward to it. Happy New Year all!
Archive for December, 2008
More Snow and Happy New Year
Dec 31
Happy Friday
Dec 19
From here.
Boston is gearing up for a wonderful winter weekend. 6-9 inches of snow are coming our way…
Touch My Body
Dec 11
There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a study has confirmed.
German astronomers tracked the movement of 28 stars circling the centre of the Milky Way, using the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
The black hole is four million times heavier than our Sun, according to the paper in The Astrophysical Journal.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Black hole found in Milky Way.
Thanks, Mr. Ellis. That really made my night.
The Boston Globe’s Big Picture has a great set of pics up: Green Sahara.
The Sahara used to be lush and green, with … fantastical monsters roaming around:
And the peoples who lived here obviously had a great deal of ceremony around the burying of their dead:
I find it compelling and fascinating to imagine whole entire parts of the globe with completely different environments than we have now – imagine a lush, green Sahara with crocodile headed monsters running around (110 million years ago) … people putting flowers into graves, weeping over the loss of their loved ones (6 thousand years ago)…. it really does boggle the mind, doesn’t it?
Roosevelt Field
Dec 3
Great comic from Goats:
I spent a little time at the mall this afternoon, picking up some presents for whatshername. And, I must say, going to the mall at lunch is far better than going to the mall after work in December. And, I must say, going to the Cambridgeside Galleria is far superior than going to Roosevelt Field. Didn’t they just add an airport there to accommodate all the traffic? Is there still a Bennigan’s there? Do Bennigan’s still exist? No. They went under. Awesome. I loved Bennigan’s. Much better than Crapplebees. Ugh. The worst is still the 99. Ugh, I think I just got a little sick thinking of the 99. Ugh, there it goes again.
Agatha Christie
Dec 3
From the Writer’s Almanac:
It was on this day in 1926 that the mystery novelist Agatha Christie disappeared from her home in Berkshire, England. Her abandoned car was found in a chalk pit seven miles from her house. The whole country was fascinated, and the story got lots of media attention. Police and ordinary citizens alike organized huge search parties.
Then, 11 days later, Agatha Christie was found in a luxury hotel. She was staying under a different name, and she claimed that she couldn’t remember a thing. It had been a hard year for Christie her mother had died, and her husband had left her for his young mistress. To this day, no one knows if she had legitimate amnesia, or if it was a publicity stunt to raise book sales, or a way to publicly expose her husband’s infidelity. But all the media attention made her even more famous, and she ended up as one of the best-selling authors of all time.
I had never heard that little tale, but what a great story!
NaNoWriMo 2008 is over!
Dec 2
My most earnest attempt at NaNoWriMo, and … I did it:
I am now taking a break from Ace Sheridan and science fiction, and trying my hand at something more … conventional. My brain is a bit broken after writing all that and eating all the turkey possible. Grats to all the other Boston area NaNoWriMoers!
