Today is our 4th Wedding Anniversary. I love you honey and I’d do it all over again. i got a call at a stoplight from her in Boulder, CO. it is going to be a great day 
Thanks to everyone for their well-wishes for our anniversary!
It is also the beginning of summer and the longest period of daylight for the year.
Wow! Great lyrics from an amazingly good band. Thanks Al!
I should have noted this earlier – dangerousmeta! is back up. Later: cusp people checking in — I wrote about my Dad’s slide rules about a year ago…
blivet 6/16/2000: Lark Farm/Mike’s Weblog: “The Slide Rule Universe.
An outfit that buys and sells slide rules … they also have a lot of info on the history of these classic instruments and instructions on how to use them if you happen to be lucky (or crazy) enough to own one.” I’m looking at my Dad’s 24″ K+E #N4081-5 he used in college right now. It’s ivory (I think – and I feel bad about that) with bamboo cores. It (and two others) usually live on a high shelf beside the Moroccan tar drum I got during my ‘Mickey Hart’ phase, the Millennium Falcon model Audrey gave me, and the fedora my great-uncle bought in 1942. (I’m an archaeologist, you know I’d have to have one somewhere.) “Until I bought your mother’s ring, that was the most expensive thing I had in my life.” Of all the things I have of my Dad’s, this has his essense. I think its beautiful, perhaps because it so reminds me of him. Update: I’m still carrying it around two and a half hours later. I thought some more about it. I think everything else I have of his is Dad-stuff and family-stuff. This was his, from when he was just Jim. Before anybody called him husband or Daddy.
You’ve got a good point Susan! I wonder how to tell which time for the solstice is authoritative? I suspect it would be the time it occurs at the Prime Meridian, but that reference point may have been superseded by another location. Trouble is, nobody says what their standard is. At least I couldn’t find a reference at the Sky & Telescope site.
It is 6:30 and I need to go to work so I can get back in from the site before my brain gets baked. OK, more baked than I already am. Have a great day everybody!
A lost text of Archimedes has been discovered. It appears he beat Newton. “Whereas Newton guessed at numbers and volumes, Archimedes, like mathematicians are able to today, precisely calculated them.” via craig at Bookotes who was tipped by Fred Lapides (Bushwacker and GoodShit)
Craig has a number of Archimedes links up today.
How to add the “no-smart-tags meta tag” to your site. blivet now blocks those tags, though the smartosity of the content here remains unaffected. thanks brent!
Frankly, I’m offended as hell that I didn’t get a notice from The Net Authority. I am such a slacker.
Passings
Every day death walks among us, yet we live as though we are immortal –The Mahabharata
John Lee Hooker has died.
Carroll O’Connor has also died.