Nathan Viennet WRIT 340 blog

  On every freewrite that we’ve had in class so far I’ve somehow written about food. You could argue that is because we have class right before lunch time but I do think food is one of my great passions so I might as well write about that.  Just to be clear when I say food I don’t mean eating, I like eating no doubt but I was thinking about cooking. I love cooking. For myself or for other people, pasta or steak, grandma recipes or fine dining all of it is fascinating to me. I have preferences of course and I think that cooking shines brightest through fine dining.  I’m no chef, I have very little training, most that I know I’ve learned through youtube, my father (who learned it from his mother), or through trial and error. I used to cook with my dad when I was very small, and then I realized that if I cooked I didn't have to do the dishes. There it was, I had to learn to cook. This was when I was about 14. At that point I knew how to make eggs, and that was pretty much it...

I mentioned in the first post that Mike Brown and his associates are explorers of the modern day. I still think that’s true but the means of this exploration has changed quite a bit. Much of the manual work is now automated by a computer program, furthermore this computer program was developed (in great part) by one of his students. Even what is left of the manual labor (visually checking for planets) is left to his subordinates mostly. He’s taken almost a managerial position in he endeavor and I must say you can feel in the writing that this is not merely as exciting as his prior role.  Of course finding planets is still his end goal and he is still just as motivated to that end. But it seems the loss of the long nights at the observatory, of the clunky photographic plates, his isolated cabin in the woods all of this seems to have impacted him for the worst. Even though his life is tremendously easier, it's almost like what was motivating Mike Brown was the seeming impossibility o...

 From Jules Verne to Artemis  I wasn't able to make it look like I wanted on blogger so here is the link for it on google docs.  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xVRxqOy1E4TgnYcrzCuguR6mp-p5oV7Pmts4OJ8d71g/edit 

How I killed Pluto and why I had it coming    “How I killed Pluto and why I had it coming” by Mike Brown is a compelling tale about explorers of the modern day. The fact that I hadn’t even heard of a 2nd dwarf planet despite being quite up to date regarding space news, is somewhat disconcerting. Especially seeing as after further research I even realised that there are actually 5 dwarf planets like Pluto all but the latter discovered in recent years. This is somewhat saddening to me, first because of my lack of knowledge on the matter and second because this tale made me realise that there is so much being discovered nowadays that a massive body in the Kuiper belt is barely interesting enough to make the news, let alone school books. But it also fills me with wonder as there is so much being discovered nowadays that a massive object in the Kuiper belt is almost another Tuesday.  I chose to read this book because I find the subject fascinating, and I was a little ashamed ...