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Archive for November, 2009

Housecleaning…

Posted in nanowrimo, random on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Hey all! If you look up above at the URL, you may notice that I’ve put a real domain name on this thing! I never took the time to do a redesign like I wanted to and go and host on my own domain, so I just added the domain to this blog.  All the [...]

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I survived 2012

Posted in 2012, humor, movies, stupidity on November 29, 2009 | 20 Comments »

This is a little overdue, but I need to report that I did sit through the 2 hour and 38 minute *facepalm* experience that was the movie 2012.  I was invited by Christian, and well, there’s no better way to see this movie than with people who will stay up til all hours of the [...]

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Astronomy Songs – Part I

Posted in astronomy, education, fun, music, outreach, science, space on November 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

For those of you that follow along on twitter, a little while ago I asked for some help finding space and astronomy songs for our Dark Skies, Bright Kids end of semester party. And did I mention that my twitter friends are freaking awesome! I got TONS of lists and suggestions and promised to compile [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted in Uncategorized on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »

It’s Turkey Day for the US folks, and I want to say that I’m very thankful for my family. (AWWWW) It’s true, they rock. So what if my brothers think football is more important than science, or if my mom thinks Nathan Fillion isn’t funny… I love them very much, and they have always been [...]

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My beefs with my ex-religion

Posted in atheist, personal, rant, religion on November 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

For an atheist, I tend not to talk much about religious matters anymore.  When I first came “out” as an atheist, it was an interesting topic of discussion for me, but I quickly bored of it. Still no evidence for god? Okay, move along.  I’m much more interested in the immediate harm of anti-vaxxers and [...]

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Updates on anti-vax, woo, and flying cars…

Posted in Charlottesville, Iraq, Randi, anti-science, medicine, pseudoscience, skeptic, stupidity, vaccines on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I have updates on some of what I’ve been writing about lately. So listen up! In my H1N1 post, I mentioned the “backwards walking cheerleader.”  Via Skepchick, please read this entire post by Orac summing up the aftermath. In summary, Desiree Jennings was taken in by Generation Rescue, the anti-vaxx group that Jenny McCarthy associates [...]

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A Non-Scientist’s Reaction to Richard Hoagland

Posted in 2012, humor, pseudoscience on November 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »

As promised, Tim is writing his first blog post! So be sure to check the author name from now on before we figure out some easier system of distinguishing.  I urged him to write up his reactions to the SyFy channel’s 2012 Secrets after we spent over an hour howling with laughter at it Sunday [...]

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Unicorns and Starry Nights

Posted in Charlottesville, astronomy, outreach on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This semester, a number of astronomers at UVa are participating in a project called Dark Skies, Bright Kids.  Each week, a group head out to a local elementary school and do astronomy-related project with the third, fourth, and fifth graders who have joined the astronomy club.  Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to join the Friday [...]

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More harm that my brain can fathom at the moment…

Posted in Iraq, pseudoscience, rant, skeptic on November 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »

What’s the harm in believing pseudoscience? Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless Colonel [Hal] Bidlack said, “When they say they are selling you something that will save your son or daughter on a patrol, they’ve crossed an insupportable line into moral depravity.” Someone in that company, ATSC (UK) Ltd, must know that [...]

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Skepticism 102

Posted in Dragon*Con, critical thinking, definitions, labels, outreach, skeptic on November 3, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I had long ago promised to write about what came out of Skeptrack at Dragon*Con. It’s taken some time to process, and there have been many other distractions (life, work, etc) but here I finally begin… I’ve written previously about what it means for me to be a “skeptic” so I guess you could call [...]

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