I used to think I was the only one who watched films and then smacked my forehead while saying "hey, that's not even CLOSE to being right – why don't they ever ASK somebody"! It turns out that I'm not the only one. Ok, so Neil deGrasse Tyson is an uber-geek, but still, I feel [...]
Browsing Posts published in July, 2010
Directors who don't care
July 29, 2010
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Geeky funnies
July 28, 2010
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Hocus Pocus – by Focus
July 27, 2010
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I had only heard the studio versions of this until now, but the live version in incredible. Talk about fast – ouch! The beginning is almost unrecognizable…
How hawks see the world
July 26, 2010
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A friend of mine sent me this link, and I just had to share it – amazing! This is video footage taken from a camera mounted to the back of a hawk! http://wimp.com/hawkssee
My Bad!
July 24, 2010
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Saw this on alt.peeves (a great source for inane griping), and I couldn’t have said it better myself. So I won’t. The phrase that peeves me is “My bad”; it’s just two adjectives stuck together, and in the contexts in which it is used, no such combination is acceptable. It’s just plain Bad Grammar. via [...]
Gift is not a verb
July 23, 2010
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Really, it's not, even though some weenie dictionaries have now added it as such to pacify people who insist on "verbifying" it. (sorry) You give someone a gift. You don't "gift them". You receive a gift. You weren't "gifted" (but perhaps if you insist that you are, then you are gifted in a different way… [...]
BS Removal Kit
July 21, 2010
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A new tool will help you get rid of bumper stickers when you've had a change of heart.
Quotes I saw and liked
July 20, 2010
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Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend. – Alex Blackwell The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – William A. Ward
Barefoot Bandit Captured
July 12, 2010
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The “barefoot bandit” was finally captured after 2 years of thumbing his nose at authorities. http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2010/100712bandit.html This is a 19 year old kid who escaped from a halfway house, and went on a burglarizing, stealing rampage for 2 years. It’s amazing he was able to elude police for all that time. Also, he seemed to [...]
The latest in sanitizer marketing madness
July 8, 2010
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Here’s the latest in the sanitizer marketing series: Lysol’s “no touch” soap dispenser. Yay! Another product nobody needs! Now they claim that soap dispensers have germs all over the pump handle. Oh nooooo! Now we’ve got to sanitize the sanitizer products! Whatever will we do – life on this planet is doomed for sure. As [...]
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