Slightly Different Badger to the one I was introduced to. Listen and enjoy the hell…
And when you’re done with the badgers, make sure you check out the Real LOTR.
Category: Fun
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That's a Lot of Paper
I work for an Engineering Consultant firm. As part of our job, we prepare plans and a step in the Georgia Department of Transportation’s plan review process is to plot multiple (11) sets of both full-sized (22″x34″) and half-sized plans. For submittals like this one, we utilize a firm that specializes in plotting large quantities of papers. For example, here you see the Transportation department gathered around half of our most recent submittal. Wow.
From left to right is: Anthony Prevost (standing), Me (sitting), Scott Griffin, Rick Hartline, Sharonda Ivy, Laura Muddiman, and Erica Appleby. The featured pile of paper (only Half of it) is the I-520/I-20 interchange in Augusta, Georgia.
I’ve never had plans delivered on pallets before. This has really made my week.
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Flying Spaghetti Monster Runs Amok!
Kansas Board of Education member Connie Morris comes face to face with his noodly appendage and was not touched.
All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster
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Bending the Brain
If you are a Math dilettante, do not go here to Good Math, Bad Math.
If you are one of my crazy friends who can’t get enough of it, feel free… -
Computer Operations
In case you’re looking for a reason to stare endlessly at you monitor, try this link. It will demonstrate the actual operation of your computer.*
*yanked from a friend, Chris Schierer
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Happy 456 Day!
In the western traditional spirit of celebrating weird date milestones, I wish everyone a happy 456 Day! (That’s 04/05/06 in the American version of dating)
I’m sure that there is something cosmically significant about this day, but I can’t find it.
I can’t wait unit 666 day!
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Analogic Bear Volcano
Here is a link to a post by PZ Meyers of Pharyngula with a very thinly disguised methaphor for science vs. religion.
Let it not be said that I either endorse or anti-endorse this post. You must only read it, then start going through the comments. It’s the comments that make this post worthwhile.
If you aren’t familiar with stripper factories or beer volcanoes, I recommend to you His Noodly Appendage.
And I, too, want to have a flaming tiger next to my bear volcano.
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Road Runner?
Well, yesterday it was a pizza-sized hole.
Today, it’s a miscue from another AJC writer, Phil Kloer.
I was looking at the movie review for Ice Age II and read this:
Scrat is the name of the adorable little prehistoric squirrel-thingie in the 2002 movie “Ice Age,” whose wordless, fruitless pursuit of a single acorn was that flick’s funniest running gag. As relentlessly inventive and doomed to failure as Road Runner [ed. emphasis], Scrat is practically Chaplinesque in the purity and futility of his quest.
Road Runner? Wasn’t that Wile E. Coyote? I could have sworn that was the critter getting repeatedly blown up, smashed, run over, etc. Alas, I believe we have another case of someone writing for a deadline without really reading it.
Speaking of the Coyote. I saw another spoof bumper sticker the other day. You are, I’m sure, familiar with the “W. The President” square black stickers. Then there is “F the President” which I find amusing. The new one was “W. The Coyote.” Very nice…
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How deep is that hole?
Quoting from the opening sentence of an article in this morning’s AJC by Dave Hirschman.
Hip-deep in a pizza-sized hole, electrician Ken Hunter crimps some of the hundreds of miles of wiring that soon will illuminate the $1.28 billion fifth runway at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
How deep is a pizza-sized hole? Pesonally, I’ve never had a pizza that I could be hip deep in.
What I find most amusing about this was I didn’t realize what that sentence really said (pizza sized deep vs. pizza sized round) until well after I was finished reading. There are so many different phrases out there that we all know what they mean, but that’s not exactly what we say. This one gets added to the pile.
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Happy Equinox!
Five days ago we celebrated the Ides of March. Today we get to celebrate the our free annual trip around the sun!
I like the solstices and equinoxes (equinoxae? equinices?) because no one has latched onto them like the Hallmark Holiday (Valentines Day) or Halloween.
At 18:25 UTC (13:25 EST), we’ll be crossing the celestial equator and there will be much rejoicing.