I’d like to be able to attend this competition, for obvious reasons, but I don’t have the time or the money. I asked Davidian to sponsor my trip, but the cheapskate pretended not to hear me. Well, we’ll just see if I come up with any more glove competition ideas for him.
All posts by Rand Simberg
You Think We Hate The French?
You should see how the French feel about them.
South Florida Blog Event
Kind of short notice I know, but there is a bloggist bash planned for this afternoon in Fort Lauderdale for any south Florida conservative/libertarian bloggists, in the bar at the Cheesecake Factory on Las Olas, starting around 4 PM.
A View Of The Future
From the past. Lileks would have a great time with this.
Well, we did get the undersea tourist boats.
You Know, Here’s The Funny Thing
I hate massages. Just as is the case with watching basketball, I would pay not to have one, if I had to. I love s3x, though.
Another reason I’m not a Republican.
You Know, Here’s The Funny Thing
I hate massages. Just as is the case with watching basketball, I would pay not to have one, if I had to. I love s3x, though.
Another reason I’m not a Republican.
You Know, Here’s The Funny Thing
I hate massages. Just as is the case with watching basketball, I would pay not to have one, if I had to. I love s3x, though.
Another reason I’m not a Republican.
Bad Polling News
For the Democrats.
Tidal Asymmetry
This post set off a discussion in which I pointed out that tidal forces are asymmetric. Carl Pham expressed skepticism at this, asking if I was saying that the tide rose higher on the side of the earth closer to the moon. I hadn’t previously thought about this before, but since I do believe that tidal forces are asymmetric, this probably followed. Or at least it followed that they were different.
One attempt was made by Ilya to prove it, but I thought it flawed and oversimplified for reasons I pointed out in comments there, because one has to consider both centripetal effects and gravitational effects when analyzing tides.
Here’s my attempt. Caution, math to follow:
The Socialist Paradise
…of Zimbabwe:
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of southern Africa, is crippled by foreign currency and fuel shortages, unemployment of over 80 percent and the highest rate of inflation in the world.
“Year-on-year inflation, which stood at 1,072.2 percent in October last year, rose to 1,281.1 in December and has risen to 2,200 percent by March,” Gono said in a televised statement.
Emphasis mine. It doesn’t take long for socialist thugs to destroy breadbaskets. The Venezuelans may be on the verge of learning the same lesson.
But hey, what’s the problem? Just print more money!
Seriously, this is a tragedy, in which the neighbors, particularly South Africa, are culpable, in their unwillingness to isolate and denounce Mugabe, who is vying to become one of the worst leaders in the world.