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For some reason I am making new blogs and the like.  There’s my 1UP.com blog for video game stuffs, my Backloggery for the list of games I’m playing right now, and a Twitter feed for finding out my latest meal.  Throw in foursquare and Facebook ( for friends only) and you can stalk me like a pro! Expect them to be updated just about as much as this blog.

I am good at making unordered lists, however.  Onward and twirling!

• I don’t have much to say. Um, yeah. Except in some cases…
• I have too much to say. When I really get going on a subject, I’ll end up with walls of text about space probes or megabytes or hamburgers. tl;dr
• I lack focus. My blog is too general to even appeal to me.
• I’d rather do than write. I’ve tried to write about my interests, like astronomy, video games, and even NASCAR, but writing about them necessarily takes time away from doing them.
• I lack the ego. It really takes the wind out of my sails when there are hundreds of millions of blogs and there is literally no reason for anyone except the people I know to read mine.  Besides, I could just tell them what I want to say directly. But then they don’t get deal with my superfluous italicizing.
• I never know how to end a post. Um, yeah.

Let us ring in the New Year with tidings of knighthood for tea, earl grey, hot, drinker Patrick Stewart! From now on if you get caught calling him “sir,” it’s not some Star Trek fantasy, but the Right and Proper British Thing to Do.  I’m pretty sure all he needs now is double-0 status and a license to kill, and he’ll be invincible.

Knighthood for Patrick Stewart? Queen says make it so – CNN.com.

As you may have deduced, NaNoWriMo is not a thing that I will be finishing, or for that matter, really even starting.  Turns out that school is a rather time-intensive endeavor, one that does not lend itself well to flights of writing fancy!  I do like the idea of writing some short stories, though, so all is not lost.  Just most of it.  Maybe a mid-Summer WriMo is in order.

It’s almost a shame to drink it.

via Cosmospresso | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.

Somehow better than regular coffee.

Time-traveling bosons can try as hard as they want, but the Large Hadron Collider’s real Achilles’ Heel?  Bread.  And birds,  apparently.

A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating on parts of the accelerator. The LHC was not operational at the time of the incident, but the spike produced so much heat that had the beam been on, automatic safety detectors would have shut down the machine.

I admit there are some eventualities you just can’t plan for, but come on!  How are you going to destroy the world if you’re thwarted by bread?!  I mean… no.

(via Universe Today, Bread Dropped By Bird Causes Problems for LHC.)