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To the people of New Hampshire and Vermont,
liberals, socialists, intellectuals,
and, let's face it, honkies...
folks who never say motherfucker.

Merry Christmas!

Holiday music

Nothing says "Happy Germans" like a little Beethoven.

-This is a link to a large file of some kind
-So is this

If folks could keep this running as a little soundtrack in their ugly, horsetooth, pointy little heads they wouldn't drive like assholes and make me go all "sickhouse on they asses".

Yah buzzcut, no-style-Chevy driving nitwits!
I didn't know that thing came with standard driver- and passenger-side DOUCHEBAGS!

Happy shopping everyone!

Carl Sagan ten years on - Contact film/book differences

Huge props to Carl Sagan, my parents, sisters, and my bro-in-law Dale for turning me on to science and critical thought back when I was a wee lad with an even worse haircut. A "what-you-see-is-what-you-get" cosmos is a wondrous and bewildering enough thing without going over the edge and looking for the invisible man in the sky.

I always found it interesting that they changed the ending of the movie Contact to diverge from the book. I wonder what Ann Druyan was thinking when she signed off on this or if Carl was aware of it too.

In the movie it seems that Ellie Arroway is made to accept that faith is the only thing that will vindicate her. She comes back from her journey to the aliens with absolutely no solid evidence.
"Hope you believe me 'cuz I got nothing here. Bupkiss. Not even a t-shirt."

In the book she is given inside information about the creation of the universe and uses a supercomputer to prove the existence of a universal designer. Science and faith are united in a way that even an atheist like myself found very satisfying and imaginative.

Deep thoughts

As the holidays and the new year approach year carefully consider the important things in your life.

Reflect on the differences between:
-Crispy
-Crunchy
-Hard

Flat panel mania

Has anyone ever found a non-flat panel display?

I'm looking for a sort of convex panel display.

Seriously, $300 for a 23-inch LCD HDTV that can double as a gaming/PC monitor.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16889179006

Plastic balls for every need

Just what I've been looking for!

http://www.complexplastics.com/balls/

Learning to Live with Small Black Holes - Conclusion: Not Easy

The last magnet was put in place in the monster Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Woohoo! Let’s make some baby black holes! Or some new universes!
Hopefully they won’t be populated with idiots.

http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/12/01/0046219.shtml

Gotta see these pics…
Now THIS is a machine.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos2/
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-hi/0611011_03.jpg


A “Time Projection Chamber”…SERIOUSLY!…I’m sure this will be used only for “good”
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-alice//tpc-2006-003.jpg

It’s about 13 MILES in diameter.
http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach/images/cern-photos/CE0077M.jpg

http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-si/0107015_01.jpg

Not to worry

I seem to have caused some concern to my readers with my post yesterday about National Methamphetamine Awareness Day.

There is no cause for alarm - the cupcakes to which I referred were prepared in an Atkins-friendly manner using Splenda and soy flour.

Meth is one thing, unwanted carbs are another.

Smoke up kids

In observance of November 30, National Methamphetamine Awareness Day, I have just completed a 27 hour rally session of methamphetamine consumption.

-Meth cupcakes with vanilla frosting
-Aerogel/solidified meth smoke, deposited on a metal plate cooled by liquid nitrogen and then applied liberally to the scalp
-Meth breath mints (Methos?)
-Methampehtiminated, carbonated soda
-Roast turkey stuffed with meth rocks and herbs

I have to say, I feel no effects of any kind.
I wish the whiny babies in the media would stop fabricating these lies about harmless children's medications and start posting the paper tube that I had on my head when the Germans ruled the place and he starts keeping the damn trains running all around the passbook, or bank account thing, you know the one. I had that where I was 7 and I never could remember my baptism nor the monies I received.