Category Archives: Other

To stay put and fix what’s broken, or to leave the earth altogether and try our luck elsewhere…

By Mark | May 20, 2013

NASA’s Chief Technologist, Mason Peck, took to Reddit this afternoon, answering questions on everything from the democratization of space, and our current research into warp drives, to the role of 3D printing in the colonization of other planets, and the possibility of encasing our astronauts in water during the voyage to Mars in order to [...]

Also posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 3D printing, colonization of space, manned space flight, Mars, Mason Peck, NASA, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Science, space, space exploration | 20 Comments

No Kissing, No Knives

By Mark | May 20, 2013

A friend who teaches first and second grade sent me the following today. She says that she found it waiting for her when she entered her classroom this morning.

Also posted in Photographs | Tagged cool kids and the cool shit that they do, first grade, kids and violence, kids today, kissing, knives, littering, rules, second grade | 7 Comments

Still a rip-off, the Color Run returns to Ypsi

By Mark | May 9, 2013

In preparation for this weekend’s big Color Run that will be wreaking havoc in Ypsi, I thought that I’d repost what I’d written about the event last year, just as the “charity” event was wrapping up. Let me start out by saying that I like that the Color Run took place in Ypsi this morning. [...]

Also posted in Detroit, Rants, Ypsilanti | Tagged charity, Color Me Rad, Color Run, giving to charity, neon, raves, running, scams, techno | 37 Comments

Seeing in the Boston bombing though the filter of preexisting prejudice

By Mark | April 16, 2013

I wasn’t going to comment on yesterday’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing until more of the facts were known, but, as I’m sitting here tonight, reading the analysis of folks like Alex Jones, who thinks that it was an inside job perpetrated by the government, and Fox News contributor Erik Rush, who thinks that it’s clearly [...]

Also posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Tagged Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Atlanta, bombers, bombs, Boston, Boston Marathon, conspiracy theories, Erik Rush, false flag, FOX News, Islamophobia, mass murder, Oklahoma City, Olympic bombing, patriot movement, Patriots' Day, Richard Jewell, Taliban, terrorism, Time Square, Timothy McVeigh | 72 Comments

Fondly remembering Roger Ebert… nerdy kid in search of friends, childhood zine editor

By Mark | April 4, 2013

I have very few regrets in life. One of the biggest is not pursuing an interview with writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun Times film critic Roger Ebert more aggressively. (He finds himself in the distinguished company on Don Knotts and Joey Ramone in that regard.) If you haven’t heard, Ebert passed away today at [...]