Grocery Store love

Well, I think I have found a new favorite grocery store. Wegmans just opened near work. It is so awesome.

Went there at lunch and then for dinner yesterday with Spyke. The sushi was very good and the wasabi tuna for dinner was fantastic. There is so much stuff there I think I will be trying things for a while to come. Of particular note were the tea selection and the meat counters. I also think it will be nice to walk there for lunch a couple times a week.

Life on Mars...

Well in my vein of adding alot of science stuff to this blog, here is an announcement made today about the possibility of present life on Mars.

I will state again that we need to push for more exploration and colonization of space. This article and the one I posted earlier only reinforce my opinion that we belong out there.

Ad Astra!

Climate Change is Here

Well, this site shows that there is a definite change going on. Whether you think one way or the other about the cause, we need to be aware that it is happening and start paying attention. We only live here.

Papers please...

Well with the House passing the Real ID Act, we take some large steps to having some sort of National ID card and losing more freedom. I think it is funny that this is coming from the Republican party, who long criticized Democrats for wanting to implement these kind of things.

I also wonder how the Christian Right is going to feel. I know that family members of mine always viewed the government putting out one of these kind of cards as a stepping stone to the Apocolypse. Many of the "Chick" publications extol this as a tool of the Beast. All this from a President that they put in for "moral" issues.

Reminds me of the quote by Benjamin Franklin..."Those who would give up essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security."

New Computer Chip

The Financial Times posted this article. Computers keep moving forward. With a 4 core chip, the potentials seem really good.

Chris

Ice on the move...

Some interesting environmental news has been springing up lately.

Here is a piece regarding the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Some scientists contribute it to global warming, others dont. We shall see. It could be totally natural. We have to remember that there are alot of factors we dont understand that could make our planet a very unhappy place to live.

Here is one talking about the Arctic ice melting away too.

Whatever the cause, we need to pay attention to what is going on. Since we have not pushed out into space, all our eggs are in one basket and that is a bit too dangerous for my taste.

Poor Taste

Statements like these really tick me off. No one should say these things. I wont deny that people think bad things about other people, but we need to watch what we say. Every officer that I ever met from growing up here in DC would probably be cringing right now at the stupidity of these remarks.

I think what is worse that people defend it. If you haven't learned tact and risen to the rank of general, perhaps you dont need the rank.

I dont deny that to put yourself in a place where you can go out and kill another human, you have to set them apart so you dont consider it murder. War is killing, but unless you are pathological you need to be able to step back from that mindset when the time is done.