Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

Someone thinks the iPhone will launch at $399.99 with a $59.99 plan. Higher plan means more profit $$$…

Science versus Faith, reformatted for vertical layout:

Some say the Universe qualifies itself as a database, but for others this top 10 list will come in more handy.

I wanted to feed my addiction to pistacios so I looked around for a good distributer of large amounts of them, and found Nuts Online. I was quite pleased with their service–for about $100 I ordered 25lbs of Pistachios, which arrived within two days. They arrived in a shapely box:

I quickly opened my nuts in the box:

Yes, it sure is full of luscious nuts:

This makes me want to compose a song like:

Hey girl I got somethin’ real important to give you
So just sit down and listen

[…]

Somethin’ special girl
It’s nuts in a box, those nuts in a box babe

These photos of are my slightly worn Seiko Men’s Arctura Kinetic Watch #SKA201 taken on a Canon S3 camera. It has a nice macro mode.

I love the idea that I won’t have to replace this watch’s batteries for many, many years.