Clowns In My Coffee

On a visit to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo the other day, I came across a couple of references to artificial insemination; pandas are not exactly fecund creatures. It occurred to me that there must therefore be somebody whose job it is to … uhh … collect the male’s contribution to that process. [...]

I’ve been cavalier with the power saving settings on the desktop computers I interact with on regular basis. Throw in the fact that I recently swapped in a dual-core Athlon 64 that chews through 13o watts (eh, what can I say? The mainboard is socket 939) when it’s under load, and the [...]