This left me speechless. Suffice it to say that when I played RBI baseball (a Nintendo game) with my brothers, it was never quite this dramatic. (Its about eight minutes. Drama takes time.)
(from 1986 World Series Game Six Re-enacted in RBI Baseball)
If that wasn’t enough for you sports fans, here’s Covering Teen Wolf: One Coach’s Guide. which reminds you that “you’re not going to stop Teen Wolf entirely, but you can try to contain him”.
Nerds need to know that you can make circuit boards out of chicken feathers, make water flow uphill (exploiting Browning ratcheting), and that large-scale superconducting wires (for hovertrains) are almost here.
IBM researchers put a 50MHz ring oscillator circuit on a single carbon nanotube molecule. Moore’s Law still applies!
to build a Lego aircraft carrier. This must be seen to be appreciated.
I always tell people that if I didn’t love software development so much, I’d be a physicist researching new materials. There are new, cool things being developed all the time: paints that generate electricity, flexible LEDs that outperform Neon lights, solids that are more than 99% air.
If you ever read an article about a new material, always be on the lookout for words that start with “super”. That may not sound as exciting at “ultra” or “mega”, but in physics, “super” is where the crazy things happen. A supercondutive loop of wire can hold an electric current forever. A superfluid, placed in a closed loop, can flow endlessly without friction. And then there’s superhydrophobia, superdiamagnetism, supersolids, …
A new season of Futurama is in production, according to Billy West, the voice of Fry. When it was cancelled a few years ago, I was literally angry with rage. But now it’s like Double Soup Tuesday at the orpanarium all over again.
Fry: I’m never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffineated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?
[Bender and Fry in Benders apartment]
Bender: [while sleeping] Kill all humans, kill all humans, must kill all hu…
Fry: [shakes him] Bender wake up.
Bender: I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.
Fry: Listen, Bender, uh… where’s your bathroom?
Bender: Bath-what?
Fry: Bathroom.
Bender: What room?
Fry: Bathroom.
Bender: What what?
Fry: Aaah, never mind.
[Bender shuts himself down to sleep, Fry lies on the floor]
Bender: [while sleeping] Hey, sexy mama… Wanna kill all humans?
What do stray animals, the homeless, and battered women have in common? As a society, we agree that members of these groups could use some protection from the elements, at least for a time. The world is a tough place and so we set aside small portions of it so that the vulnerable can find refuge.
My children (and yours too, I imagine) fall into this broad category also. They’re simply not ready for the cold, cruel world we know is out there. They are vulnerable, and will be for some time.
If you searched for animal homeless “battered women” on Google, you wouldn’t be suprised to see the same term popping up over and over.
Shelter.
Shelters protect, and they help prepare people for the time when they won’t need a shelter anymore. (Obviously, animal shelters excepted) .
And yet to some, sheltering your children is akin to crippling them. (As an aside, I first used the F-word on the advice of the Associate Pastor’s son. We were about seven years old.)
So to answer the question, “Don’t you think homeschooling your children means your sheltering them from the real world?” Yes, I’m counting on it!
But they to will grow up as we did. (Although I can’t say without reservation that I’m a “grown up”.) And when the time is right for them to go off and seek their fortune, they’ll be ready to leave the shelter.
I don’t know what to say about The Anti-Griddle except that I’m fascinated with its existence. It also may come in handy if you accidentally produce superheated gas that’s hotter than the Sun!
McDonald’s changes sign to woo kosher diners from Reuters.
In a first for McDonald’s Corp., the golden arches at the two branches have new blue backgrounds, replacing the trademark red ones. The new signs also display the word “kosher”, both in Hebrew and English.
No mention is made of McDavid’s.
We are true fans of The Simpsons here, but these people take the cake.
