Words, music, comment, notes, news, and updates since 1997 from Derek K. Miller, a writer, editor, web guy, drummer, and dad who's a blogger in Vancouver, Canada.
I mentioned the other Derek Miller before. Looks like he's going to get even more famous—his latest album is a collaboration with Double Trouble and Willie Nelson. So when you see "Derek Miller with Willie Nelson," it's really not me.
I didn't know that the Milky Way, in which we live, is a barred spiral galaxy.
Check out the iPod on the Space Shuttle. (They had to put in a different battery for safety, by the way.)
From Stuff White People Like: "[Going to graduate school] is an opportunity to join an elite group of people who have a passion for learning that is so great they are willing to forgo low five-figure publishing and media jobs to follow their dreams of academic glory."