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I survived 2012

Posted in 2012, humor, movies, stupidity on November 29, 2009 | 20 Comments »

This is a little overdue, but I need to report that I did sit through the 2 hour and 38 minute *facepalm* experience that was the movie 2012. I was invited by Christian, and well, there’s no better way to see this movie than with people who will stay up til all hours of the [...]

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A Non-Scientist’s Reaction to Richard Hoagland

Posted in 2012, humor, pseudoscience on November 10, 2009 | 8 Comments »

As promised, Tim is writing his first blog post! So be sure to check the author name from now on before we figure out some easier system of distinguishing. I urged him to write up his reactions to the SyFy channel’s 2012 Secrets after we spent over an hour howling with laughter at it Sunday [...]

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Another Defense of Science

Posted in humor, music, pseudoscience, science, skeptic, videos on September 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I was taking a break the other day and following some fun Twitter links to a story about Eddie Izzard’s marathon of marathons, which is a really cool and inspiring story. (Sorry, I don’t remember who tweeted it first!) This is just days after I watched “Circle” again, and nearly spilled my wine laughing at [...]

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A Truly “Dirty Job”

Posted in Charlottesville, humor, penn and teller, personal, skepchicks, skeptic, videos on May 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I’ve been working on lots of good (hopefully) stuff for work and also on a longer post of some importance… but a distraction is needed. Sent to me by the lovely Gail, it’s Mike Rowe, of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” in 1992, selling stuff (to put it nicely) on QVC…

Holy. Hilarious. [...]

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Carnival of Space #92

Posted in carnival, humor, sex, space, twitter on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wow, aren’t you lucky. This week we have a jam-packed carnival and sideshow at The Launch Pad! Go and read all the great articles from around the space-blogosphere, from crashing satellites to space geeks and Europa to space mosquitoes.
And… if you are looking to spice up your science life, click here right now! [...]

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The Chuck Norris of Astrophysics

Posted in humor, science on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m not a fan of Chuck Norris, so I’m glad to see his fact list superseded by someone much cooler, particularly, an astrophysicist! Check out the list of Dave Green Facts, written up by some smart and creative students at the University of Cambridge. Awesome.
He does however have some competition in the science [...]

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The Chuck Norris of Astrophysics

Posted in humor, science on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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A God Gene?

Posted in Monty Python, humor, philosophy, religion on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John Cleese explains.
Man, he is so amazing. After watching that, laughing hysterically, then watching it with my friend, I went to check my Gmail and strangely enough I see this headline in the reader above it: “Human Infidelity Linked to Gene.”
Priceless.

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Somewhere, some intern speech writer is laughing his or her ass off…

Posted in humor, politics on July 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Who said there’s never anything interesting on C-SPAN?
(Seriously, it’s worth it… your irony meter will asplode…)
(Shamelessly stolen from the Bad Astronomer’s twitter post)

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