July 2007

Moving to Nebraska

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 26, 2007 @ 4:55 pm Personal News

My wife and I are moving to Nebraska on the 28th (arriving there on the 30th). We’ve been busy lately doing all the things necessary when moving, especially when moving out of state: packing, filling out change of address forms for all of the utilities, journal and magazine subscriptions we have, etc. Tomorrow we’re attending [...]

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Bruce Willis on Late Night: An Unappealing Hunch

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 24, 2007 @ 8:05 pm Environment

Did anybody catch the Bruce Willis interview on David Letterman’s Late Show a while back? The one promoting Live Free or Die Hard? Willis, who I’ve heard is an atheist, came on the show wearing a wind turbine “hat” and proceeded to make fun of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. At one point he joked [...]

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New Study Ranking University Political Science Departments by Job Placement

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 23, 2007 @ 1:35 pm Education

There’s a new study out in the July 2007 issue (Vol.XL, No.3) of PS: Political Science & Politics, published by the American Political Science Association (APSA). It purports to rank universities by the quantity of quality job placements of the Ph.D.s graduating from their political science departments. 86 schools that awarded at least 30 Ph.D.s [...]

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An Example of Environmentalist Bias in Wikipedia

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 23, 2007 @ 10:36 am Environment

There are others. Here is just one example, discussed by Roger Pielke, Sr., on his blog Climate Science, of how environmentalists (like William Connolley of RealClimate, who is a heavy hitter on Wikipedia) bias Wikipedia’s environmental articles:“Comment On Why Climate Science Is Presenting Evidence Of Glacier Advance or Near-Stationary Positions In Some Areas“

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Second Range Report: Taurus PT111 Revisited; & 200th Post!!!

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 22, 2007 @ 9:56 pm Guns and Other Weapons

I’m rather late posting about my second trip to the range with my Taurus Millennium Pro PT111 9mm. I went the Friday before last. My parents were in town and I went with my dad, who wanted to shoot and zero his six-shot, single action, .22 revolver (that thing has almost no recoil, very easy [...]

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Two Cool Revolvers

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 21, 2007 @ 6:24 pm Guns and Other Weapons

Check out these two cool revolvers. I’d probably buy them if I could afford it right now. Smith & Wesson’s Shield Gun, Model 327 TRR8 Taurus’s The Judge .45/.410 (yes, it can shoot .45 pistol rounds and .410 shotgun shells)

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Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Water Banning Petition

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 12, 2007 @ 5:30 pm Environment

Hat tip to Nolan for bringing this clip to my attention.

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My First Rifle? Revisited

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 10, 2007 @ 8:17 pm Guns and Other Weapons

A while back I blogged about a rifle I’m interested in buying, the Kel-Tec SU-16C. I still want to buy it, but I’m not sure if it will be my first.I’ve never been hunting before and hunting is one of the reasons I want a rifle. Nebraska, the state to which I am moving in [...]

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