Category: Fun
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New JibJab
The geniuses at JibJab have published their next animated political commentary entitled What We Call The News. You may remember This Land from the 2004 election season, which made a huge splash, deservedly so. Go check out the new one.
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SpaceX Launch
They counted all the way to T-0 and no launch. That’s disappointing. Thanks to Physics is Phun for for making sure I was online for the launch.
The most priceless moment was the dude who was in the control booth about 2 minutes after launch time who said, very clearly, broadcast to everyone in the world, “Ohhh…fuck.” He seemed very disappointed, too.
I don’t mean to make light. This is a fabulous project I want to see succeed, but you have to get levity where you find it.
Update:At 20:16 EDT, the launch team is recycling the count to T-00:11:00. No idea when they’ll actually do that, though.
2nd Update:At
20:4420:55 EDT I notice that we’re sitting at a T-00:16:00. Go SpaceX! We’re counting down.3rd Update:SpaceX Launch! We watched the webcast while it climbed from the atoll toward orbit. We saw the stage separation and heard the shouts of joy from the control booth. Fairing separation and more shouts of joy. We watched the second stage ascend with a view of the glowing engine bell then…[poof] no more webcast connection.
Damn. I hope the vehicle is ok.
4th Update:Quoting http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sfn_070320_spacex_falc1cntdwn.html
0115 GMT (9:15 p.m. EDT Tues.)
T+plus 5 minutes, 5 seconds. Telemetry has been lost, SpaceX spokeswoman tells reporters. The webcast provided by the company has stopped too.
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"R2-D2, Where are you? I need you to deliver my mail!"
Yesterday, driving to PodCamp Atlanta, I spotted my first R2-D2 U.S. Postal Service Mailbox.
Apparently, this one is a bit early. According to the link above, they’re not supposed to be out and about until the 28th of March.
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"I Will Love You Forever, No Matter What" (addended)
Timonthy McSweeney takes me back to those heady days of first love, and how all the possibilities were open.
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Good Science Fiction Story Sentences
From SFSignal, the top 10 sentences from third rate scifi stories.
This one is the best:
As one, the Spacemarines stood up, raised their spacerifles in salute, then marched out the spacedoors to the spacedock, where their spaceship was waiting to boldly take them where they’d all been before: Space!
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MANGO!
As brought to me by sfsignal.com, here is Mango, a worthy successor to Badger and Bananaphone.
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Bikini Waxing
I feel…naughty posting this. But, it’s not porn, so my reputation, as it is, should be ok.
Check out this youtube video of various women (and one guy) getting a bikini wax. Very entertaining…
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Math!
The math majors in my circle of friends and family won’t appreciate this, but everyone else will…
