another holiday monday at the office

Good weekend, and under normal circumstances it would have extended to today (stat hol in Canada, or Ontario at least) but I'm time shifting in the hopes of having a museum day in Toronto with the kids later this week.  Just as well because I have an unGodly amount of stuff to work on...so natch I am noodling on the internet instead.

This weekend I finished Imaginary Weapons, documenting the Pentagon's embracing and attempted development of hafnium-isomer based weaponry in the early 2000's.  Bottom line...DARPA just about threw a lot (seriously a LOT) of money at some wingnutty pseudophysics in the same class as Cold Fusion, in an effort to Blow Things Up Real Good.  Scary stuff.  Good book.  Quite the cast of characters:  Beltway bandits, evangelizing physicists, classified military intel...the works.

Grilled lambchops this weekend and they were AMAZING.  Also drowned in greens from the Ag co-op.

I'm reading Little House on the Prarie to the girls and quite enjoying myself...they are asking some probing questions about the relocation of the Indians and I am trying hard to engage the topic without drowning them in the complexities of human nature and the larger world.  A tricky prospect!

Well, these parts lists aren't going to approve themselves...