I don’t have a high opinion of Game of Thrones, but maybe I’ve just been looking at it the wrong way. Maybe, with just a few adjustments, I could be reconciled to it.
“Medieval Land Fun Time World” looks excellent.
If it has a subplot about some geeky guy trying to lose his virginity, it would make for a perfect ’80s movie.
It’s not to late to sign up to attend the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting, where you can witness this presentation:
Abstract: E9.00003 : Urinal Dynamics
In response to harsh and repeated criticisms from our mothers and several failed relationships with women, we present the splash dynamics of a simulated human male urine stream impacting rigid and free surfaces. Our study aims to reduce undesired splashing that may result from lavatory usage. Experiments are performed at a pressure and flow rate that would be expected from healthy male subjects. (Lapides, J., Fundamentals of Urology, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1976.) For a rigid surface, the effects of stream breakup and surface impact angle on lateral and vertical droplet ejection distances are measured using high-speed photography and image processing. For free surface impact, the effects of velocity and fluid depth on droplet ejection distances are measured. Guided by our results, techniques for splash reduction are proposed.
Like, aim?
I think I have acquired some insight into the mind of our weird foster cat. She always comes racing into the bathroom when I’m trying to use it, and she peers intently at streams of water and will hop onto the toilet to stare fixedly at the vortex when it flushes. She’s just a wanna-be fluid dynamics physicist!
I was reading about the “million” veterans marching on Washington DC (it was more like a few hundred) when I saw this peculiarly decorated car and learned something new.
Surely a car door so flamboyantly and colorfully decorated could not be carrying a lie — maybe smoking doesn’t cause cancer after all. I must check this out. I looked further for more details on this spectacularly informative vehicle. By the way, it’s true that Hitler was a fanatical anti-smoker, and the Nazi government had the first effective anti-smoking campaign.
Wow! Who is this person, “Smoker on Strike”? I must learn more about such a wise and authoritative person.
So I found her CV. It is amazing. Did you know she’s looking for work as a web designer?
She designs the most beautiful websites in the world. She says so herself.
By the way, I’m all puked out this morning, so I can safely navigate to those links and suffer barely a ripple of the dry heaves. If your stomach is more robustly occupied right now, you might not want to look.
Since the American Atheist meeting this Spring is in Salt Lake City, and I haven’t yet settled on a topic for my talk, I was looking for inspiration and found … Mormon Missionary Positions. Now we know what those clean-cut young men are doing when they’re not out pedaling about on their bicycles. Also, what they do with the bicycle.
I’ve kind of wondered, since I’m always getting called one — and while not really thinking hard about it, I’m aware of the homologies in male and female genitalia and mentally pictured something discrete and reasonably placed. I guess I must have low self-esteem or something, because science fiction authors imagine something grand and huge and dangerous, instead.
John Scalzi has a sketch of the Kaiju Mangina, and it is awesome and terrifying and silly. And then Howard Tayler drew the Brobot reaction, and it is perfect.
By the way, the drawing is by KB Spangler.
Sometimes, the British get very silly in their defense of religion. The Muslim groups got very very offended when the atheists slapped a label on a pineapple calling it “Mohammed”, and now the LSE has outright banned atheist groups, and is harassing them for wearing Jesus & Mo t-shirts.
I don’t have a pineapple, I am sad to say. I was tempted to run out and buy one. But I can do one better.
Meet Mohammed.
As an added bonus, he’ll keep longer than a piece of fruit would.
Do you have a Mohammed at your house? You should get one.
Have you heard about this book, Warrior Princess, by Mindy Budgor? It’s about a young California woman who spent a whole 3 months to become a mighty Warrior Princess of the Maasai. They’re discussing this blithe bit of cocksure cultural imperialism at Making Light. I rather liked this comment:
Some daft billionaire ought to sponsor scholarships for curious Masai and Amazonians who want to study the rich spiritual traditions of Ozarks auto mechanics, or take part in the initiation rites of Dakota wheat farmers.
I know about those Dakota rites. They all involve cow tipping, so there is a deep spiritual linkage with the Maasai already.
For the first time ever, I am neither surprised nor disappointed by a case of sexual harassment, because it’s exactly what I would have expected. The Insane Clown Posse is being sued for sexual harassment.
Now all this other crap that’s been going on…are there more juggalos among atheists and skeptics than I would have suspected?
…and then my dream ended up on YouTube! Right. Bill Nye. Dancing the cha-cha. To Oingo Boingo.
He’s not bad. The woman is much better, but I presume she’s a professional dancer?
