Monday, February 18, 2008

Science!
Oortlink. I am a big fan of speculation, but the discovery of exoplanets has overturned much of what we thought we knew about planet formation; so, let's not make too many assumptions about the rotating dust clouds surrounding distant stars. I wish to find a cosmos full of infinite Earths, but we must not break out our mats and jump to any particular conclusions. Let's what to see what the data suggests.

Science!

Back in the day at Yost Ice Arena, in support of team captain Jed Ortmeyer, a small gaggle of us dubbed ourselves the "Ort Cloud," and would greet his every touch of the puck with a chant of "Ort! Ort! Ort! Ort! Ort! Ort!" like bloody circus seals.

Proud Europa
And the former Yugoslavia gets that little bit more former: Kosovolink. The United States is a colossal country, spanning a continent from ocean to ocean, and encompassing every race and creed under the Sun; so, Balkanization has always struck me as frightfully parochial and generally unfortunate. But, that said, staying as part of Serbia, even the post-Milosevic Serbia, is like staying with an abusive husband who swears up and down that he's changed. I applaud the courage of the Kosovars in striking out on their own, and I wish the new Republic of Kosovo well. Now we wait to see if international recognition shall materialize: E.U.link.

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