Joshua Townsend

Year: 2007

  • Mad

    Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad, and then I think, “Ah, who cares?” And then I think, “Hey, what’s for supper?”
    – Jack Handey

  • Weaponry

    I am no war-hawk, but I do like to keep up on the latest trends in high-tech weaponry.  I have been watching the Army’s Silent Guardian project with keen interest.  A review of this new ‘wave of agony’ weapon was posted here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=482560&in_page_id=1965

    Non-lethal force to break up anti-war protests, riots, neo-Nazis, desert raves, high school proms, and bio-physicists conventions.  I love it.

    Or a step into the more lethal side of things, researchers at the University of California Riverside are trying to create an annihilation gamma ray laser.  This new laser is made by combining electrons with their anti-partical positron to create a laser one million times more powerful than existing lasers.  Read all about it here: 
    https://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19526216.000-antimatter-molecule-could-lead-to-ultrapowerful-laser.html.

    Seems like just what we need to finish off the war in Iraq.

  • Beer

    Mr. Wood and I brewed up our second batch of beer on Saturday – an Irish Amber Ale.  We move to second stage fermentation tomorrow.

    Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

    benjamin_franklin—  Benjamin Franklin

  • Domain Name

    This blog now available through https://www.iknowthings.com.  Exciting?  No.  But it’s all I’ve got.

  • By way of an introduction

    “Foolish boy” I said to myself.  How can you be _____________ and so stupid?  Fill in the blank – a father, a working professional, more than 10,000 days old, a husband, a friend….  I’ve been telling people for a while that “I know things,” but on the inside the only thing I know is that I don’t know squat about myself.    And that’s why we’re here (here, as in this blog, and not in some metaphorical/philosophical sense): to gawk, laugh, and wonder in amusement as I prove how much I don’t know, and just maybe to learn something as we explore what I do know together.

    My interests are diverse, so hang in there if I post on something that is of no interest to you.  Heck, I might even write on something that is of no interest to me.  This should be interesting for everyone…..