The second ever weeklyrob podcast. It’s just under 10 minutes. Basic stuff about the universe’s elemental forces. NOTE: I don’t know anything! I was an English major, for God’s sake. Don’t believe anything I say about science. No music or sound effects this time, and Soundtrack Pro’s “Clicks and Pops” feature really let me down, […]
How-To
Instructables gives step-by-step instructions on anything that anyone has bothered putting together. Some cool stuff, like the 12 volt battery hack. But we’re here today to point to the step-by-step instructable on setting up your own working Barbie Doll Electric Chair, with a mug shot for the press. (Link from Seed)
Spoil the Child
Let’s say you had fifty billion in the bank. You have a son and you plan to leave everything to him. What’s the reason not to give him everything he wants? Of course, I don’t mean that you buy him a company and let him fire or humiliate the employees. Let’s say that you don’t […]
Oprah Can't Edit Me!
Shout it from the rooftops. Oprah cannot cannot cannot edit me. Oprah has no idea who I am, but I decided to join in solidarity with Chris Rose, whose new book isn’t supposed to be very good and will not be seen on Oprah. Read the article, which is funny and clever. In short, Oprah […]
Shadow Blog!
The latest article in the Freakonomics blog is kinda funny in trying to be serious about the perils of misinformation while also quoting and laughing at the accusation of…the Shadow Blog. It’s only slightly funny when it misuses the word “whomever.” The misuse of “whom,” and my twitch about it, came up at lunch just […]
Lines in the Face
So I woke up at about 7:00 this morning and had a big fat pillowcase-induced line on the right side of my face. Went back to bed for an hour, making sure to lie on the left side of my face. Woke up about 8:30, and now, at 9:15, there’s still a line on my […]
News Shocker: Movies Are Unrealistic
A couple of physicists have gotten an article published, discussing the fact that movies get the science wrong. Ars Technica gives us a list of some of the worst offenders. So, yeah, turns out that Superman probably couldn’t have reversed time. Ars Technica points out that grad students work for peanuts, so these movies could […]
The Decameron
For no good reason, I’ve been reading some of the stories from the Decameron when I have a few minutes. Well, maybe the timing is the reason: each story is quick and easy to read. When I don’t have a lot of time or mental energy, I can open the thing at random and know […]
Surprise. Wikipedia Can't Be Trusted
Wired reports that a cool (but extremely clunky) new tool called WikiScanner lets us all see who’s been making anonymous edits to wikipedia. Or, at least, which IP addresses. And of course, it turns out that those edits haven’t all been for the betterment and enlightenment of mankind. Nope, politicans trash others and prop themselves […]
Memory Lane
So, I already posted some stuff from my travel journal (about lots of non-travel stuff). This blog was definitely NOT going to be a place for my nostalgia about traveling. Not. And it still won’t be. But, as I said in that other post, I was skimming through some of the old stuff recently, and […]