Author: Texas Toast
Meme Month: Oddities
Mother Bulgaria
Today’s stream of consciousness: Unicorn => National animal of Scotland => Country personifications (Uncle Sam, etc) => Mother figures/national personifications (Lady Liberty, etc) => Mother Bulgaria => Mother Bulgaria Pantheon Memorial => Gurgulyat, Bulgaria => Sofia, Bulgaria => Rage against the Soviet Union Many countries have personifications to symbolize aspects of their national character. An […]
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Book Club: the WLBOTT Equation
Our readers may be familiar with the Drake Equation. Basically, you plug numbers into an equation to determine the probability of having friends and neighbors in the Milky Way. where N = the number of civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on the current past light […]
Much Anticipated Blue Northern
The Central Texas headquarters is anxiously anticipating the first true Cool Front of the year. Tomorrow’s high will be 44°F (26°C) cooler than yesterday’s high. It’s been a hot Oct, (but let’s be positive – it’s cooler than next year!) Texas for Beginners…. Texas Monthly lays it out for us…. By mid-September we are yearning, […]
R5-D4 moves!
[UC#1] This is the robot that my son [UC#1-P1] has been working on for the last year or more. Most of it was 3-D printed on his printer. He had to figure out all the wiring and computer programming and all that stuff. This was the final part, getting the wheel motors going and responding […]