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Another Peek Inside Tales for Canterbury: “Eggs for Dinner” by Jay Lake
I Watched Every Coen Brothers Movie — Hmmm. The Big Lebowski is still my favorite.
Caesar and the power of No — Language Log on Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the emergence of language.
New Non-Invasive Technology Shows Promise in Shrinking Liver Tumors — (Via Chris W. Johnson.)
New drug could cure nearly any viral infection — This could be huge. (Via David Goldman.)
’60s-era nuclear cruise ship bides its time in obscurity — The things we have just lying around in this country. (Via David Goldman.)
Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas — This is a heck of a photo from APOD.
If the world lived in a single city — A handy lttle chart to aid American readers, at least, in visualization. (Thanks to danjite
Bachmann and Perry – a beautiful 2012 rivalry — Maybe. As I’ve said before, I find the prospect of an Evangelical/Christianist president far more frightening and destructive than a Mormon or Muslim president.
Rick Perry and the Hucksterism of the Rich — Juan Cole on why Rick Perry is frightening and destructive.
?otD: When was the last time you ate a popsicle?
8/14/2011
Writing time yesterday: 4.0 hours (3,300 words on Sunspin, extensive WRPA on multiple other projects)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 hours (solid)
Weight: 226.0
Currently reading: Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
Posted: 6:24 am Sun August 14 2011 |
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August 14th, 2011 at 4:22 pmI visited the NS Savannah (it feels odd typing that prefix) in 1988, when she was moored in Charleston along with the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and a submarine.
Compared the other cruise ships I have seen (the perks of having a naval architect dad), the Savannah was fairly basic. Even the 1953 MV Europa was more luxurious. That said, the 1953 Europa was fabulous, the closest I ever came to the golden age of ocean liners. I never much liked her successor.
Though I vastly preferred the Savannah to the Yorktown or the submarine. As far as I remember, you could take a look into the reactor room from a sort of gallery. I didn’t stay very long, though, because I was afraid of lingering radiation.
I had no idea how unique the Savannah was. I thought building nuclear cruise ships was just something Americans did, after all they build nuclear submarines, too.
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August 14th, 2011 at 4:47 pm[...] Jay Lake pointed me to this article about the NS Savannah, an American nuclear powered cruise ship commissioned in 1961 and in service for only ten years. [...]