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Blake Stacey is a physics boffin who wandered the Earth and eventually settled in the nation-state of Denial. He has written a science-fiction novel.
November 30, 2008
Category: Bibliophilia
I know several people, both in real life and on the Intergrid, who have suffered through National Novel Writing Month. Chronologically speaking, that month is wrapping up; the terminator of those projects is sweeping around the globe. But, when the...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:04 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Carnivalia
We now join our programme, already in progress: Thaddeus Nelson catches the last half of NOVA's documentary The Bible's Buried Secrets (2008), and doesn't particularly like what he sees. John Baez brings us the latest in the case of El...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:14 PM • 5 Comments •
November 29, 2008
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
This post was set to automagically appear whilst I am away trying to catch up on the work I didn't get done before the holiday because I was sick. If SIWOTI Cat ever stops, people will start being wrong on...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 10:45 AM • 4 Comments •
November 27, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Can physics tell us about ourselves? To phrase the question more narrowly: can the statistical tools which physicists have developed to understand the collective motion of large agglutinations of particles help us figure out what our brains are doing? If...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:06 PM • 6 Comments •
November 26, 2008
Category: Cooking
These little "cold and flu multi-symptom relief" pills have left me far too placid to deal with the Internet. I updated a recent post with an addendum, but that seems to be about all I can accomplish today. Oh, well....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 2:18 PM • 1 Comments •
November 25, 2008
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
When it comes to politics, I'm still very much in the "I have to laugh or else I'll cry" mode. It is in that spirit that I present the following, which is dedicated to everyone out there who saw a...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 7:42 AM • 4 Comments •
November 24, 2008
My mother was looking through the photo albums in the closet, and she found this, which apparently I drew in kindergarten: This must have been after I watched Timothy Ferris's The Creation of the Universe for the Nth time. Looking...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 9:24 AM • 14 Comments •
I've been watching my way through a heap of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes lately, and I've come to some uncomfortable realizations. In many cases, I hadn't seen these episodes since they were first aired, nigh on twenty years...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:34 AM • 15 Comments •
November 22, 2008
Category: Wobosphere Silliness
Behind these, the enemy cat hides his true motives....
Posted by Blake Stacey at 12:26 PM • 2 Comments •
November 21, 2008
James Madison and Isaac Asimov write for Mystery Science Theater 3000: Ah, the memories. Today's clip is brought to you by my officemate, who says he remembers where he was (a) the day the Challenger exploded and (b) the day...
Posted by Blake Stacey at 1:54 PM • 2 Comments •
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