zeroasterisk blog – alan blount & friends
Posted in look at this on Oct 13th, 2006
Fun, sciencey videos/links:
Water Balloon popping in slow motion
Water Balloon, filling with dry ice, and collapsing in Liquid nitrogren
Representation and explanation of 10 dimensional space (as described in string theory)
GeoHacks – 30 minute interesting lecture on mapping and math
Thinking Big: Robotics – 30 minutes interview on robotics and intelligence
Protien Assembly – 13 min (1971) – hilarious [...]
Posted in general on Oct 12th, 2006
Iddybud: The Buck Stops with Bush:
What we have done in Iraq – the way we went about this venture – is something I’m sure that President Bush now regrets, even though he’d never admit it. We have a strategic nightmare on our hands, and we also have citizens of Iraq – not al Qaeda, but [...]
Posted in event/news on Oct 12th, 2006
Inside Toyota’s hybrid factory | CNET News.com:
TOYOTA CITY, Japan–While you’re touring the assembly area in Toyota’s Tsutsumi auto plant, your mind keeps telling you that you’ve been here before.
Then it hits you.
It’s a lot like the Snow White ride at Disneyland. Robotic cars filled up with wiper blades and other parts [...]
Posted in alan, geek, laughable, look at this on Oct 8th, 2006
YouTube – White and Nerdy- Weird Al
This video/song is fantastic… it hits pretty close to home for me and several of my friends, though. Personally it’s hitting at least 40% acurate for me:
I’m fluent in Javascript, do webpages for friends, got a friend who went to MIT, have stationary rims, i’ve got a soldering gun, [...]
Posted in alan on Oct 7th, 2006
saw dan bern last night… he’s fantastic – still – always.
his second song was “I do what I have to do to make me feel like a man…” which is a great song. during it, watching him, I realized that I too, am a man…
sounds stupid, I know. I’ve been married for 6 years [...]
Posted in political on Oct 3rd, 2006
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year-old Texas rancher, whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually, the topic got around to former Texas Governor George W. Bush and his elevation to the White House.
The old Texan [...]
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