Tag: Entertainment
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Bankruptcy is the solution.
Denyse comments on the latest evidence that “science” has totally abandoned science for politics. SciAm outright endorsed Harris instead of Trump, AFTER FIRMLY SUPPORTING WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID IN 2020. This is the exact opposite of the “independent” activists, who worked hard to oppose WHAT TRUMP ACTUALLY DID, and now are universally working FOR Trump.…
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Two for the ages
Maybe it’s time to update something I wrote last month. Washington’s farewell address: Make no entangling alliances! Eisenhower’s farewell address: Beware the military-industrial complex! Biden’s farewell address: KU KUX KAN DIDN’T WEAR THEIR HOODS! WOMEN ARE NOT WITHOUT ELECTRICAL! [Adding:] Trump’s farewell address: THEY’RE EATING THE CATS! THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS! The last item isn’t…
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Funniest joke I’ve seen in ages
Since I’ve been immersed in old car sales training films, here’s a car salesman joke from Reddit. Customer: Cargo space? Salesman: Car no do that. Car no fly.
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From an extremely different era 22
In a 1934 Billboard magazine: Cooper and Clifton, Four Robeys and Dare and Yates will be the first vaude troupe going into Soviet Russia. The first two acts sail next month and will be joined in Europe by Dare and Yates. Alexander Basy, head of the Amsov Agency here, says he is negotiating with several…
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Still more Magic Lanterns
Gradually continuing the theme of Magic Lanterns. Previous item is here. An 1897 book on induction coils and related devices includes several weird Magic Lantern displays. I’m going to show them from the front, since Poser doesn’t project properly. The devices are fairly accurate but my animations are crude. This week is too hot for…
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Hardass humor
Seen on SpokaneNews under one of the dozen overdoses today: Dark humor is the best way to survive when the whole state is an insane asylum.
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Sentence never written before
The president headbutted the pope. Even AI couldn’t come up with this combination. Only our actual presidents and popes can reach this level of impossible unimaginable lunacy.
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Back to Magic Lanterns 2
Last week I returned to the subject of Magic Lanterns, the intersection of science and entertainment. Now I’m imagining another development of magic lantern tech that was easily possible in the era of the lanterns. Fluidic analog computers came along in the 1930s, AFTER electronic analog computers. This sequence was common. Many machines could have…
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Back to Magic Lanterns
Returning to the crucially important theme of science as entertainment. Before science became a tool for war and torture in 1946, science was often mixed with magic and entertainment. The Magic Lantern was the intersection of the two. This time I’m not trying for historical authenticity; I’m mixing periods and making up things that could…
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Pits and spoons
Briggs is trying to bring real human experience back into science. In this piece he analyzes claims of telekinesis and speculates on quantum action. He doesn’t reach any conclusions. I think he may be starting from an unproductive angle. Our thinking on these subjects is narrowed down by our intuitive sense that force is a…
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Clear picture
Tonight’s radar gives a nice clear definition of mountain rain shadow! Pile up against the Cascades, squeeze out most of the rain, travel over the central plains without raining, then pile up against the Rockies.
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Stevens was right the first time
From a substack article complaining about student reading skills: = = = = = START QUOTE: A professor at Stevens Institute of Technology says that she and her colleagues discuss the problem regularly, agreeing that they can’t assume students will do the readings. But if they simply go over in class what students should have…
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I’d rather
More random pointless thoughts. Before the web, newspapers were divided into Serious Publications and Tabloids. Serious Publications had pictures of Serious Men Doing Serious Things, which was usually a meeting to conjure up a new unjustified war. Tabloids had pictures of pretty girls. The same division happens in the web, with one addition. Serious Publications…
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Easy correction
When a demon worries about an event or phenomenon, whether it’s “global warming” or “pandemics” or AI, the demon is really informing us about his plans. Psychopaths blame and frame innocent bystanders. I didn’t imprison and strangle you for two years, some dude named Virus imprisoned and strangled you. I didn’t turn off your electricity…
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