August 2006 Archives

Bye Bye Pluto

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I have only been casually following this story about Pluto's planetary status for a little while. It just seems funny more than anything else.

So for those of you needing to catch up
CNN's story
AP Wire story
BBC Story
MSNBC Story
Slashdot discussion on it

There are several other venues I have been reading about this, but more for the fact that the other way they were gonna go with it was to increase the solar system to 12 planets. So now when trying to act smart I can drop off Pluto from planets in the solar system. Damn trivial knowledge. Oh well it does open a whole new world for dwarf planet catergoies in triva games.

So long Pluto and welcome Xeno (2003 UB313) and Ceres into the dwarf grouping.

Updates

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I feel that the time has come to work out a plan for keeping the site up to date better. I am not really sure what that means. Maybe it means simply planning out a set number of entries I would like to see up each week or month. I am not really sure which is better; whether it is a weekly quota or a monthly quota. I will figure that out sometime this week.
Today, I have had time to sit down and work on things that have been backlogged in my to-do list. I have been meaning to do them for a while, but it always seemed that something jumped priority. Examples of this include the book John Adams by David McCullough. I have wanted to read this book for sometime. I got it as a Christmas present and for the last 8 months it sat the first few chapters read and nothing more. I had read 1776 by McCullough and felt I would give this a go. Needless to say, I dug the book out of the tub it was in and started over today. I have returned to the chapter I had left off on and now I look like I might be able to get past it this evening.
I recently moved. It was a simple move as I moved two houses north of where I was living. I figure that I might have made the daily trip to campus shorter by 150 feet or so. I t is an epic change. Two major differences in the move, I am currently living upstairs of the new house instead of in a basement and once the current squatter is out there is to be more room available. I am more looking forward to living with Nels. Nels and I met due two years ago when Nels was living in the basement of the house and attended the ward. He and I formed a fast love-hate relationship as we call it. We are looking forward to BBQ-ing this next year and for the most part having fun.
I think this was a needed change. The place I was living wasn’t healthy for me. All I did was, enter my room and do nothing. Due to my lax attitude, my schooling suffered this last year. It could have been better and I feel that had I been around people. So this should be an interesting social experience.
So taking Spring and Summer term classes has burnt me out. I am glad that there was a two week recovery period in here that I am able to do whatever I want. It has helped this week to recharge the batteries and get ready for the coming semester. Speaking of which, I need to be a hawk and look at the classes I am registered for and decide if I really am going to be taking them. I hope that all goes well. With me getting most of the GE requirements out of the way, I am left with major related classes and now I am getting to take classes that excite me, but when I tell people that I am taking Methods of Sampling come Fall, they get a glazed look on their face and I am overly excited by the class.
Oh well, life goes on.