Comments on: BA Bro Blog

By: Bo

Bo — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:26:41 +0000

If you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow

By: Isenald

Isenald — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:24:59 +0000

Isenald

He visto que muchos sitios antes y la mayor

By: Charmaine

Charmaine — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:25:54 +0000

Charmaine

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

By: dusty59

dusty59 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:21:33 +0000

So Phil,
Squid man is squirting down here to Atlanta later this month– when shall we expect a visit from our BA?! especially knowing you have family to visit down here!

By: Barber_of _Civility

Barber_of _Civility — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:45:43 +0000

claschx -

I’m NOT unaware of Linux. It’s just that I work with homeowners, the great many of whom are not computer literate. Using Linux would wipe out my client base when all of their heads explode! And it would be so messy.

And I DO NOT recommend Vista under ANY circumstance. Read a little more carefully, please!

By: madge

madge — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:32:15 +0000

Great site. I now have somewhere to go to answer all my computer questions too. The Plait Family ROCKS! Will you give us a live trombone recital on your web chat on Sunday? PLEEEZ?

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:51:13 +0000

Well, my t-bone is no secret; you can see it on my bookshelf during the video chats.

By: sandswipe

sandswipe — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:35:36 +0000

So you play trombone, BA? I knew there was something I liked about this blog.

Fellow trombonist here, though none of my classmates would rate me very highly.

By: NGC3314

NGC3314 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:25:28 +0000

So, Phil, I bet you’ve made my discovery that being an astronomer and trombonist isn’t the most lucrative skills combination… Say, an evil thought just popped up on ways to clear a room at DragonCon. I hear Jonathan Frakes could join in.

By: claschx

claschx — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:13:04 +0000

Your brother uses a Mac, recommends Vista and seems unaware of Linux … hmmm
but otherwise a nice reading. Gooo Plaits!

By: Jewel

Jewel — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:47:43 +0000

I can play my stereo. I’m the nonmusical one in my family.

By: IBY

IBY — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:35:31 +0000

Hey, you play the trombone? Nice. I can play the triangle (trying with piano, but I suck for the moment)

By: Noam

Noam — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:27:23 +0000

Phil – my respect for you goes up all the time. Not only was I also a trombone player myself (guess this criminal past haunts us both) but I also now earn my money in the field of opera! What´s your sisters name? I may have met her and not even known about it.

By: BigBadSis

BigBadSis — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:28:47 +0000

@KevinF,
Phil is the youngest of four. The baby brother to us all.

By: Umair Rahat

Umair Rahat — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:01:50 +0000

…and revolutionizing our understanding of where *we* live.

Hi Phil, I started reading your amazing blog a few weeks ago, although I knew BA for a few months from Universe Today. At first, it was confusing by the term Bad Astronomy, it felt like calling astronomy bad, but soon I discovered what you meant by it (tackling the wrong things and perception by people against science). And thus, you have made a great deal of change in the world toward the right way.

I can’t thank you enough!

By: Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:57:50 +0000

Awesome, I live not 10 miles from Roswell (GA). Maybe I’ll check him out.

By: Umair Rahat

Umair Rahat — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:45:49 +0000

@Phil:
Being a skeptic and an astronomer are themselves the wonderful and lovely skills of living in the reality and revolutionizing our understanding of where live.

@Tensor:
He was being figurative and relative to the context.

@Kevin F.:
In the conglomerate spectra of skills, maybe?

By: Kevin F.

Kevin F. — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:32:27 +0000

Where do you fall in the three?

By: Tensor

Tensor — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:53:56 +0000

Phil,
I know what you were trying to do with that first sentence, but it isn’t correct. Genetic material is made of carbon, and carbon [b]is[/b] a finite resource. Other than that, thanks for the link to another blog I will be reading. Nice blog Barber_of_Civility.

Rick

By: The Chemist

The Chemist — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:44:30 +0000

Atlanta is a state of being, as anyone who lives here will tell you. There are a number of areas which are technically part of greater Atlanta, including Roswell.

By: Jewel

Jewel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:11:24 +0000

@Barber_of_Civility — You’re welcome! You’ve posted some excellent advice over there.

By: Macron

Macron — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:58:07 +0000

Atlanta’s a state now? I must have missed the news.

By: Barber_of _Civility

Barber_of _Civility — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:44:03 +0000

Jewel and Tom Woolf, thanks for commenting on my site!

allkom – there’s room enough for all of us. Some of my best friends and gateopeners are other consultants!

Most of all, thanks to my youngest brother Phil, for being an inspiration, and then posting about me.

Thanks, Phil!

By: allkom

allkom — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:15:52 +0000

Plait’s competition in my line of work?? Might as well retire if I weren’t a continent apart!

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:47:31 +0000

Yeah, the new editor I’m using here is a little hard to get used to. I need to do some fiddling. Thanks Jewel. And stay tuned for my next post…