silliness
drorzel | March 7, 2006Skot Kurruk explains the Best Picture result (below the fold, for those with sensitive ears):
In the end, after all the talk of whether or not Hollywood (and, by laughable extension, our whole beknighted country) was ready to fully laud a film where rabbit-eyed cowboy Jake Gyllenhall happily takes it up the ass . . . the answer was a clear "Nope." We just weren't ready.
drorzel | March 4, 2006About my take on the critically important science question sweeping ScienceBlogs, the answer is Cowboy Bebop.
I'm cool with that. I get better theme music than any of the others.
(Totally scientific quiz here.)
drorzel | February 24, 2006A Dramatic Presentation of a Classical Analogue to the Quantum Zeno Effect
A Play in One Act:
John Boy: Good night, Mary Ellen.
Mary Ellen: Good night John Boy.
JB: Are you asleep?
ME: No.
JB: Are you asleep?
ME: No.
JB: Are you asleep?
ME: No.
Repeat several more times
Exeunt, pursued by a bear.
drorzel | February 12, 2006The New York Times this morning has a long article on the stolen paintings of Edvard Munch, most notably the iconic painting "The Scream." Copies of "The Scream" (there are apparently four versions, which I didn't know) have been stolen on two different occasions: in 1994, two thieves propped a ladder up against the wall of the Norwegian National Museum, broke a window, and snatched the painting, and in 2004, two men in ski masks burst into the Munch Museum with guns, grabbed two paintings off the walls, and ran to a waiting car.
Reading about the thefts, it occurs to me that if this is what…
drorzel | January 21, 2006We've had an outbreak of mathematician jokes in comments, so it seems only fair to offer up a thread for the mockery of physics. Sadly, there really aren't many good physicist jokes. My personal favorite:A physicist, a chemist, and a biologist get together for a few drinks, and get to talking about life, the Universe, and everything. Eventually the conversation turns to relationships, and what the ideal way to arrange relationships between the sexes would be.
The biologist says "Well, as a believer in evolution, I feel that every person should sleep with as many other people as possible, in…