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| 568 - Old time religion |
| Wednesday, July 15, 2009 |
Other religions are this crazy, they just hide it well. |
posted by R2K @ Wednesday, July 15, 2009  |
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| 566 - Gag me with a spoon |
| Monday, July 13, 2009 |
I was watching CH 11 on tv (a semi-local, low budget cable channel) because they had "Valley Girl" on, starring a young Nicolas Coppola, who was to be called Nicolas Cage for the first time in this film.

There were many silly, low budget commercials during the breaks, including The Hip Hop Magician. However, this one was new to me:
 Bumpits.
This may be a legit product, but the sample images look really bad. Examples:



Just noticed Bum Pits:
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posted by R2K @ Monday, July 13, 2009  |
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| 565 - Massive chain and massive concrete press |
| Sunday, July 12, 2009 |
"This is a video taken during sea trial of a newly built merchant vessel in Germany. When testing the anchor winches it became obvious that something was wrong with the brake!"
Each link on that chain must weigh 40 or 50 lbs... the weight of the whole line, plus perhaps an anchor, probably runs into dozens of tons. Imagine getting an arm caught in there?
"A column of solid concrete goes up against over 1.4 million pounds of force."
Now is KIP kilopascal/in^2? KSI? That is an impressive amount of weight to hold, over 1.4 million lbs. That would be 100 of those large steel crane weights stacked on top, or a substantial building. |
posted by R2K @ Sunday, July 12, 2009  |
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| 563 - What do psychic douchebags have to say about MJ? |
| Friday, July 10, 2009 |
 "Jack Rourke said no reputable medium or psychic will try to contact Jackson for at least six months." (What this likely sexual deviant fails to mention, is that the psychics who try for contact after the first six months are not reputable either.)
 "Psychic Eddie Conner believes Jackson will be reincarnated in the next 20 years." (Sadly, Conner will never be reincarnated because his silk-assed shirt and matching ring will prevent his passage up to the spirit in the sky. PS: check out the size of his hand. According to my calculations, which may be flawed, his hand is nearly 10 inches in width, short span.)
 "Numerologist Glynis McCants says that with his numbers, Jackson was a draw to fans." (McCants, aka Springfield Fats, takes loads of money by lying to people who have a real need for real advice in life. The difference between her and Madoff? Most people are not fooled by this crap, and she was unable to steal as much, and some people actually made money with Madoff.)
"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- When Glynis McCants looks at Michael Jackson's life, she sees the number five."
I love how CNN covers this story at all, firstly, but also how they have to add a dateline to that statement. Stop the presses! All ships at sea... Dateline; July 10th, 2009. Some unknown numerologist has something vague to say about a recently dead, horrendous, world class drug addict with a sad life, but a great list of songs to his credit. And the comment is...
"5."
She goes on, and CNN.com dips ever lower into the swamp (sorry that is insulting to wetlands):
"His was 'six life path,' she said [even I can tell that is bad grammar], meaning he was magnetic and drew people to him. That, coupled with the fact that he was born on a two day made him irresistible, she said."
"If you are born on a two day and are a six life path then America and the world seem to fall in love with you," McCants said. It's almost as if you always get a shot with that energy if you shoot for stardom, and then you can sabotage it," McCants said. "Britney Spears was born on a two day, and she's a six life path; Lindsay Lohan was born on a two day, and she's a six life path; and Sarah Palin was born on a two day, and is a six life path."
Well guess what loyal readers... I am also from a 2 day. I have zero fame, and no one seems particularly drawn to me, other than women (your moms in particular.) I will gladly now list 3 easy steps that will let any reader get women to be drawn to them...
Wait Sarah Palin?
I did some quick, probably flawed math. Nearly 1/4th of the month is a 2 day, isn't that correct? So 20-22% of people are in this group? Also, I just found that Sarah Palin was born on February 11th. So not only is nearly 1/4th of the year made up of "2 days", but you also get all of February to boot! The only ones less special than the two and one day groups, would be the group born on "integer days."
You may be saying: "But wait, R2K, you brilliant brilliant 2 day bastard... what about the six life path?"
Well, my loyal reader, six life path is the "derived" part of your numerology reading. The kind that is a bit more complex, requires some charts and crystals, and demands a real life certified numerologist on hand. Or at least over the internet, radio, or using online software. How would they make any money if numerology was as simple as doing the math on your own?
No need for further ranting because this kind of pseudo science just looks dumb automatically. One need only cut and paste and laugh, then cry, then go eat something for a while, then play Quake 3, then laugh again. |
posted by R2K @ Friday, July 10, 2009  |
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| 559 - Series of Dreams |
| Monday, July 06, 2009 |
"And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes" |
posted by R2K @ Monday, July 06, 2009  |
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| 557 - Vacation |
| Thursday, July 02, 2009 |

No new posts for a few days due to vacation. |
posted by R2K @ Thursday, July 02, 2009  |
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| 556 - Is hyperspace communication real? |
| Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |

"A scientist has created a gadget that can make radio waves travel faster than light. Einstein predicted that particles and information can't travel faster than the speed of light, but phenomena like radio waves are a different story, said John Singleton, who works at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The polarization synchrotron combines the waves with a rapidly spinning magnetic field, and the result could explain why pulsars — which are super-dense spinning stars that are a subclass of neutron stars — emit such powerful signals, a phenomenon that has baffled many scientists."
Faster than light communication |
posted by R2K @ Wednesday, July 01, 2009  |
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| 555 - AZN (pt II) |
| Tuesday, June 30, 2009 |

One R2K reader (out of three total) has requested that I post more AZN content. |
posted by R2K @ Tuesday, June 30, 2009  |
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| 554 - Random number generator |
| Monday, June 29, 2009 |
Try a range of 1 to 99999. It is interesting to see how often the numbers are very large, most of them are equal to or one digit less than the top of the range. Why would this be? If you enter a range of 1 to 2, does this become like flipping a coin? Do you change from a random output to a more predictable chance output with smaller and smaller ranges? |
posted by R2K @ Monday, June 29, 2009  |
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| 553 - Scary Sesame Street Skit |
| Sunday, June 28, 2009 |
These guys used to terrify me when I was younger. Back in the mid to late 80s. |
posted by R2K @ Sunday, June 28, 2009  |
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| 552 - 3/6 Mafia |
| Saturday, June 27, 2009 |

"We 50-deep on the lawn with the Psychopathic leathers on you say it's on so come bring it on we gettin krunk at yo funeral, treat us like we criminals, we juggalo individuals!" |
posted by R2K @ Saturday, June 27, 2009  |
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| 550 - Flash Element TD (repost) |
| Thursday, June 25, 2009 |

Arg why would you give embed code that plays sound ads? |
posted by R2K @ Thursday, June 25, 2009  |
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| 547 - Skywatch: The truth is out there! |
| Monday, June 22, 2009 |




"I use an old Sony DCR-PC2 digicam and connect it by Firewire to my old Dell Win2K PC. The only freeware video program that works with this setup is FWink. It takes a picture every minute and stores it as a 600*800 bit jpeg. The pictures are renamed and stored using a VBScript program. I analyzed all the pictures with IrfanView and selected the most interesting ones." I use an old Sony DCR-PC2 digicam and connect it by Firewire to my old Dell Win2K PC. The only freeware video program that works with this setup is FWink. It takes a picture every minute and stores it as a 600*800 bit jpeg. The pictures are renamed and stored using a VBScript program. I analyzed all the pictures with IrfanView and selected the most interesting ones."
This looks like a very fun project. A camera with night vision could do some cool astronomy with a similar system, there are projects like this done by amateurs and professional surveys. A whole sky fisheye lens or "hubcap" mirror would be great to catch meteors and other sporadic phenomena.
Skywatch from "Urban Adventure in Rotterdam" |
posted by R2K @ Monday, June 22, 2009  |
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| 546 - Chili beer |
| Sunday, June 21, 2009 |

I have to get some of this! I wonder if any beer could be turned into spicy beer with the addition of a small pinch of Habanero? Maybe some lime?
Chili Beer |
posted by R2K @ Sunday, June 21, 2009  |
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| 540 - Sleepers Awake - Philadelphia Orchestra |
| Monday, June 15, 2009 |
Just trying to class the joint up a bit... |
posted by R2K @ Monday, June 15, 2009  |
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