“…is one of the easiest organs to bioprint.”
Within a decade? I’d say “Faster, please,” but that seems pretty damned fast, and hopefully fast enough for me, given that I don’t have any current known problems in that regard.
The House That Jack Built
Deconstructed. Scroll down.
JFK
I don’t really have much to say about him, other than what I wrote about space policy, except that I think he is the most overrated president in American history. Not the worst, but definitely the most overrated. Actually, though, I’ll have to confess that he only regained that status in the past few weeks or so, because prior to that, for the past five years, Obama had the crown.
Computer Problems
I just put a new install of Fedora 20 (yes, I know it’s still beta) on a brand-new Western Digital 2T drive, and it boots into emergency mode. Here’s the final output of journalctl -xb:
[Update in the afternoon]
For anyone who’s interested, here is the output of of ‘journalctl -xb’ and here is dmesg.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Whoa! Now that I look through that enire output of journalctl, I see a lot of file system errors on the /home partition. Guess I’ll run e2fsck and see if that fixes it.
[Update a while later]
Welp, that was the problem. I ended up just doing a reinstall, and let Fedora decide how to partition. I’m not real happy with it, because I’m not sure that fifty gig is ultimately big enough for root and I don’t want to have to resize later, but at least it’s working now.
Dear NASA
JFK just wasn’t that into you.
My space-related thoughts on the anniversary of the assassination, over at USA Today.
Education
…in a free society:
The present essay calls for the complete separation of school and state, indicates what a fully free market in education would look like, and explains why such a market would provide high-quality education for all children.
Log overdue.
The Broken Promises
Not just of Obama, but of the media, who were almost criminally negligent in their Fifth-Estate responsibilities.
Senior Senate Staffers
…see their health costs skyrocket.
My schadenfreude runneth over.
The Senate Goes Nuclear
Expect fallout.
Cheap Natural Gas
…is leading to a boom in distributed energy.
I haven’t checked gas prices here lately, but it makes me toy again with the idea of getting a generator, given electricity costs here. It would have to be a quiet one, though.