Kathryn Brightbill

As many as 50,000 Republicans and 15,000 members of the media are expected to descend on the Tampa Bay area next week, and the uncertainty of predicting the track of a hurricane so many days in advance means that hotels, restaurants and convention goers may not know until this weekend whether to expect sunny skies […]

Breaking-Development. My new favorite tumblr.

I can’t stop wondering

wilwheaton: How many more innocent people have to be murdered by a person with an assault rifle before Congress stands up to the gun lobby and says “enough is enough”? I couldn’t help thinking of the conversation I had last week in with some former students in Vietnam where I tried and failed to explain […]

Deliciousness

So I rented a motorbike while I’m in Hanoi, here’s a picture of me with it.

I rented a motorbike to get around Hanoi

I don’t know if riding here is making me a better or a worse biker, but it’s certainly never boring.

The photo of the day: Peter Higgs as the Higgs Boson announcement was made at CERN. I can only imagine what it must have been like for him to see his work, which wasn’t even taken seriously when he first proposed it, confirmed.

So, this Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes jpeg made me bust out laughing

oldflorida: Florida landscapes, 1896.

I decided I’m going to Cambodia

I’d been trying to decide how to get back to Beijing after visiting Vietnam when I found out that a friend I hadn’t seen in a few years is going to be in Cambodia at the same time I’m in Vietnam. I haven’t ever been there, so it’s going to work out splendidly. After having […]