How long can you survive in space?
Courtesy of the Bad Astronomer:
A minute and 29 seconds isn’t bad. It’s better than listening to Vogon poetry anyway.
Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Random fun links
1. - It looks like someone in Dyersburg, TN hasn’t been listening to Bob Barker. Apparently they have a stray donkey problem. It’s stuff like this that makes it interesting to live in Tennessee. No owner has come forward to claim the donkey, so if you live in the Dyersburg area, hey, free donkey.
2. - A sushi wedding cake. Ew! Is that cilantro?
3. - Are unicorns in the Bible? Apparently only in the King James Version, every other translation seems to refer to them as wild oxen. But that doesn’t stop the idiots at Answers in Genesis from rambling on at length about the subject.
4. - It looks like Jon Lajoie has a new friend.
New candidate to support
Pending a new amendment to the constitution to lower the age limit for the president, I think I’ve found a new candidate to vote for… Paris Hilton! Check out this video… ’cause it’s hot.
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
Corporate America
If you’ve never had a job in corporate America, the following video is exactly what it is like. To sum up, it’s just a bunch of people taking decisions about things that they know nothing about. And for every one there’s a business management professor somewhere laughing his ass off.
Saturday is Caturday
On the web Saturday has become Caturday. Caturday is the day set aside each week for bloggers to post about their cats. I don’t have, nor do I want any cats in my apartment. However, other people’s cats are still cute and funny. Here’s a funny example.
current_
If you have the cable television or satellite, check out current_. It’s a channel that some of you may remember as being invented (much like the internet) by former Veep Al Gore. The content of current_ is contributed by the viewers of the channel and is in the form of short video “pods.” Think Youtube on television only smarter, funnier, hipper, and insert-”er”-type-adjective-here.
Also, I’ll be adding select posts from previous blogs that I’ve maintained. These posts will be backdated so they won’t show up on the main page, but will show up in their correct chronological order at the time they were originally written. Here’s one for creating my own revisionist history!
Silly music videos
Here are a couple of music videos that have been making the rounds in case you have missed them.
This first one warns against the evils of robots. I’ve been trying to tell you people, maybe this song will make you listen.
Have you been Rick Rolled? If not watch this second video. Supposedly this is the real video to this song. Oh, the humanity!
Shuttle launch dream
It’s long been a dream of mine to see the launch of a space vehicle. I came pretty close back in 2003. I just happened to be in Florida in late June when I discovered that the second Mars rover, Opportunity, was set to launch. The night of the launch I waited on the beach along with about 50 or 60 other people, but a line of storms was moving in and the launch got scrubbed. I was gone by the time the launch actually happened.
Yesterday I was watching television and realized that the Space Shuttle Endeavour is set to launch this Wednesday. Since I am currently jobless and I don’t really have anything to do, I decided that it would be a perfect time to make the trip and see a launch. So I’ll be leaving out tomorrow morning and I hope to be there around mid-day on Tuesday.
Another reason not to watch TV
Earlier this year I heard about about a new television show on one of the radio programs that I enjoy. The new TV show would be a half hour “fake” news program in the style of The Daily Show. The difference would be that this new show, to be aired on the Fox News Channel, will have a decided right-wing slant. You can check out a clip from the pilot on YouTube.
Before I even viewed the clip above, I knew that this show was probably going to be bad at best, utterly horrible at second best, and suicidally painful at worst. It looks like my worst fears have been realized, the show is awful, at least I am assuming so from this clip. The jokes are stale, the acting is… atrocious (shutter), and the use of a laugh track with a live audience in studio is just plain insulting to both me and them!
Kitten Artillery
Recently I have been sitting at home a lot doing much of nothing. Mostly I’ve been watching MacGyver on DVD and playing Flash games at Addicting Games. One of the games is particularly mindless and fun. It is called Kitten Cannon. The object of the game is to shoot a kitten out of a cannon and see how far it goes. In my boredom I decided to build my own kitten cannon.
The first prototype had a long barrel and was similar to the one in the game. However, the kittens kept getting stuck in the barrel and it required cleaning after each use. So I developed the second prototype modeled on a mortar. The finished product is pictured below:
This prototype was much easier to fire and clean. Here is a photo of a successful test shot:
I have to say the real thing is even more fun than the game. Happy cannoning!
