All Thoughts Being Equal

Oh, it's been so long. As it turns out, summer wasn't actually the optimal time to keep updating this space with musings and especially links to things (although I managed to plurk a few). Now I feel like there's a very good reason for me to keep up, namely, my almost certain lack of literature classes this quarter. So while it's not November (a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month) I will be jonesing to write creatively and think with the right side of my brain. But to quickly catch up on an amazing development: Astronomers have found a planet in the 'Goldilocks' zone of its parent star . What's more, this planet is somewhere between 3.1 and 4.3 times the mass of Earth, meaning that it's probably of a rocky composition and the absolute most Earth-like planet discovered so far... other than Earth, naturally. The 'Goldilocks' zone, by the way, is an area around a star at which water will exist as a liquid, and is therefore assumed to have the best ...

Welcome; welcome to this, my as-yet unfollowed blog. Let the navel-gazing commence! I won't bother telling you (that vague "you") about myself because chances are, whoever reads this will know me already. It's a statistical fact, I think; the Interwebs do more to connect us with those we already know than to connect us with the great unknown masses. So, suffice to say, my name is Stephen, and I'll be your blogger today. That's all you need to know, unless you already know more. In that case, I probably know you personally. Otherwise, you're probably an Internet predator and Chris Hansen will be talking with you shortly. Now, about what I will do with this blog, since doing, after all, is what defines us, especially in the Wild West of anonymity that is the Internet. I think ( think ) that this blog will be mostly for my commentary on issues brought up elsewhere, like other blogs or that pesky construct known as "reality." Because, you know, I...