Don Herbert (aka Mr. Wizard) was one of the biggest influences in my early years as a nerd-in-training being raised by the teevee. His show on Nickelodeon, Mr Wizard’s World, was one of my favorites; it was cool, it was fun, it was smart, it was educational, and it had girls my age on it…
He [...]
Some of my coworkers have toyed around with testing some of the theories of Quantum Fetish Mechanics, they just didn’t have a name for it until now. Once again, Questionable Content saves the day!
He died yesterday doing what he loved and what we loved him for. I can’t help but think that that his death, due to a stingray striking him through the heart, was probably the way he would have chosen to go. Certainly better than dying in a car wreck, right?
Steve Irwin, dead at [...]
Pluto officially got the boot today. And I never even finished reading that old used book about how Pluto came to be discovered and classed as a planet in the first place…
You’ll always be a planet in my book, Pluto. I sure don’t plan on editing it.
I don’t know if it is my body’s utter lack of alcohol or the Daylight Savings Time or the combination of both, but today is the 4th day in a row I have gotten up before 7am, turned off my alarm clock, and then killed a couple hours waiting for my ride to work.
Strange times, [...]
In 1994, my girlfriend at the time was driving from Boone to Charlotte to visit her friend Kelly on a Friday night. She saw bright lights over the exit ramp from I-77 to Harris Blvd in Charlotte and at first thought they were football stadium lights. It was a clear night, though, clear [...]
According to this study, the idea of Coca Cola has more to do with how we think it tastes than the actual taste does.
…the researchers found that the Coke label stimulated a huge increase in activity in parts of the brain associated with cultural knowledge, memory and self-image - so much that the scientists could [...]