Fly-by, Near-miss
February 17, 2014Another piece of space rock, without much advance warning, will shave close to the earth this evening — known as 2000 EM26, the 885-foot wide asteroid (about three football fields) is scheduled to zap past…
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Throtteled — WTF!
February 12, 2014High overcast, quiet and dry this early Wednesday on California’s north coast, and the feel is not unpleasant. Soundless and near-weather-less here, but back in the US southeast, a possible “catastrophic event” via an enormous…
Fundamental Change in Four-Part Harmony
February 9, 2014Now a year older than even their famous oldsters’ love ballad, time appears on occasion similar to a snap-of-the fingers — here yesterday, then real-sudden-like, half-a-century later. Tonight marks the 50th anniversary of a brand-new…
Crazy, Mean Brains
January 29, 2014Overcast with some occasional rain this early Wednesday on California’s north coast with more expected today and tomorrow. Weather of the weird. Beyond the sprinkles, big coverage this morning, of course, is President Obama’s State…
Oral O — ‘Scratch That’
January 28, 2014In a long, detailed interview/feature last week by David Remnick in the New Yorker, was this on President Obama’s historical perspective: “I have no desire to be one of those Presidents who are just on…
Eye on the ‘Nugget’
January 27, 2014Another off little Eddie’s never-ending entrée-menu (via the Guardian): The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of “leaky” smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry…
No-Show Intelligence
January 23, 2014Clear and chilly this way-too-early Thursday here on California’s north coast — and apparently earthquake weather, too. We had a 4.7 last night, but I didn’t feel a thing — it was located more than…
War Crime
January 21, 2014Heavy ground fog this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, which in turn makes the moist air a little-bit warmer — meanwhile, on the eastern US seaboard today winter keeps on keeping on with storms…
Dry-Gulch Monday
January 20, 2014Clear and a bit on the chilly side this early Monday on California’s north coast — a big chunk of the moon still lights the western sky, shimmering now out over the Pacific Ocean. And…
‘Hold-up Man’ — Dropping the F-Bomb
January 19, 2014Yesterday afternoon, restless and unpredictable after a worrisome nap, and after what seemingly was an inconceivable amount of time, I finally clicked on Eddie Murphy’s way-gone, way-lame 1980s, ‘Coming to America,’ via Netflix. Maybe near…