Raking Muck in the Third Millenium

I used to have a sign over my desk in a newspaper office long ago, in Gothic script it read Rake Some Muck Today. In today's world, raking muck is something of a lost art. I may not be able to singlehandedly bring it back, but this is a start.

27 October 2009

Confessions of a Geek

Ok, I admit it. I'm such a geek. It was brought home to me on a visit to the Liberty Science Center. I must have said "cool" about 80,000 times. First, we got to see part of a real-time kidney transplant -- sure it was a little icky, but it was amazing. Then, we went to the Imax theater to watch natural disasters. I said to my companion volcanoes are my favorite natural disasters. She said "I wan't aware you had one." Yeah, some people don't have a favorite natural disaster. I find that odd. The film was about the volcano on Monserrat -- major pyroclastic flows. Then an earthquake and tornado. We also toured the microbe lab where kids can extract DNA and little ones can learn about germs. And the "eat or be eaten" exhibit, including the world's most poisonous snake. The Science Center turns normally sophisticated adults into little kids. And geeks like me. . .well, we're already little kids.

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