Skip to content

The Austringer

Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog.

  • Austringer Assets
  • Avida Resources
    • LEGO Mindstorms Robotics
  • Hawk Harassers? Turn Them In
AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2008/12/16 Wesley R. Elsberry

Texas: Ken Mercer Confirms “Weaknesses” are Old-School Religious Antievolution Arguments

Texas State Board of Education Member Ken Mercer has an op-ed piece in the San Antonio Express-News. You may recall

Read More
AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2008/12/14 Wesley R. Elsberry

Morally Corrosive Antievolution: Another Case

Over at Uncommon Descent, a post by Mario Lopez takes note of a publication in Nature that mentions “mousetrap”. Lopez

Read More
Computation
2008/12/08 Wesley R. Elsberry

Keeping Up Appearances

I updated the theme using the WordPress 2.x capable version of “Shaded Grey”. There are some features that aren’t yet

Read More
FamilyGeneral
2008/12/08 Wesley R. Elsberry

The Christmas Wish List

The holiday season is upon us. Something we do each year is come up with a list of cool things

Read More
General
2008/12/07 Wesley R. Elsberry

Something Different for the Evening… Football

We don’t watch much football. Diane doesn’t like it much, and I’m not so much of a fan that I’d

Read More
AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2008/12/04 Wesley R. Elsberry

Vindication

I’ve been saying that there were problems in William Dembski’s “explanatory filter” for a long, long time. I published a

Read More
AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2008/12/02 Wesley R. Elsberry

Isn’t that Precious?

Ray Comfort expounds on the evolution of sex: Sexual reproduction would never have begun to evolve, and would never have

Read More
ScienceWildlife
2008/12/01 Wesley R. Elsberry

Duke Researchers Find Large Amoeba that Moves

A Duke University press release notes the discovery of a large (1 inch diameter) marine amoeba that moves slowly and

Read More
Law and PoliticsWildlife
2008/12/01 Wesley R. Elsberry

Bush Suffers Poisoner To Live — And Pardons Him, To Boot

Jim Rutenberg in the New York Times treats this story of a Missouri farmer receiving a rare Presidential pardon as

Read More
Antievolution
2008/11/30 Wesley R. Elsberry

Repeal Science for the Holidays, Just $25.95!

You have to look at this holiday ticket offer from the Cincinnati Zoo: This holiday season, save more by visiting

Read More
FalconryPhotography
2008/11/25 Wesley R. Elsberry

Sunday’s Outing

It’s been a rough fall. Sunday marked our first serious falconry outing of the season. Between colds for Diane and

Read More
Wildlife
2008/11/23 Wesley R. Elsberry

Identify that Mollusk

Given the confusion over the Queen Conch photograph I recently pointed out, I was looking at gastropod pictures via Google

Read More
Wildlife
2008/11/22 Wesley R. Elsberry

Incredibly Rare Sinistral Queen Conch Sighted!

Check out the picture of the Queen Conch on p.34 of the November/December 2008 Florida Wildlife magazine. It shows the

Read More
AntievolutionLaw and PoliticsMedical
2008/11/20 Wesley R. Elsberry

Texas: Your “Weaknesses” Are Weak — And Old, Too

Yesterday, the Texas State Board of Education had a hearing on the science curriculum. As expected, the big issue was

Read More
Law and Politics
2008/11/19 Wesley R. Elsberry

Follow-Through: Sheehan v. Franken Dismissed

One thing the media doesn’t often do is follow-through. Some juicy news story pops up on the radar, and everybody

Read More
AntievolutionLaw and Politics
2008/11/18 Wesley R. Elsberry

Texas: 19 Out of 20 Science Professors Prefer Science

Dr. Raymond Eve of the University of Texas at Arlington conducted a survey of Texas science professors on whether evolutionary

Read More
Science
2008/11/18 Wesley R. Elsberry

Pitfalls of Popular Writing About Science

I won’t cover the gamut, but rather wish to point out a case. In the 16 Oct. 2008 Nature, Clive

Read More
Antievolution
2008/11/17 Wesley R. Elsberry

Uncommon Upheaval

William Dembski’s weblog, Uncommon Descent, underwent a recent facelift. Following a server change and software upgrade, Dembski announced his retirement

Read More
EducationScience
2008/11/17 Wesley R. Elsberry

Science and Math Elemetary Exploration

Back on November 8th, Diane and I spent half the day helping Lansing Community College put on their Science and

Read More
Law and Politics
2008/11/10 Wesley R. Elsberry

They’re Playing His Tune

In an AP story, Georgia Rep. Broun (R) warns that Barack Obama could be dangerous: A Republican congressman from Georgia

Read More
  • ← Previous
  • Next →
May 2026
S M T W T F S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
« Apr    

Money Stuff

Me and my personal activities

Help support this blog and the expenses I incur in maintenance and doing things you want to read about.

Donate now.

Social Consciousness

There are problems that we need to address together. Here are a couple of worthy charities doing good things.
  • Amnesty International cares about human rights even if our government doesn't.
  • The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) cares about our rights, especially when our government doesn't, but ought to.
  • Donate to RIP Medical Debt. RIP Medical Debt is a non-profit looking to buy and forgive a billion dollars in medical debt.

Things I'm selling

  • FineArt America Site
    Art Prints

Recent Posts

  • Margaret Elsberry, 1928 — 2026
  • Hiatus
  • Generative AI: Speech-to-text with ‘Whisperfile’
  • An Update on Generative AI
  • AI: LLaMA Going APE

Archives

  • May 2026
  • April 2026
  • March 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • January 2023
  • November 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • June 2022
  • December 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • June 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • October 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • November 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • May 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • August 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • January 2015
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • July 2014
  • June 2014
  • March 2014
  • January 2014
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • July 2013
  • May 2013
  • April 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013
  • November 2012
  • October 2012
  • September 2012
  • August 2012
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • March 2012
  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • June 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • March 2006
  • February 2006
  • January 2006
  • December 2005
  • November 2005
  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • April 2005
  • March 2005
  • February 2005
  • January 2005
  • December 2004
  • November 2004
  • October 2004
  • September 2004
  • August 2004
  • July 2004
  • June 2004
  • May 2004
  • April 2004

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
Copyright © 2026 The Austringer. All rights reserved.
Theme: ColorMag by ThemeGrill. Powered by WordPress.