Thursday, October 28, 2010

Make your own Sad Keanu photo without transparency!

Keanu Reeves was photographed by paparazzi eating a sandwhich in a pensive moment a few months back. Since then, people have been wackily placing him into all sorts famous photos and movie scenes and posting them to http://sadkeanu.tumblr.com/

To make a simple Sad Keanu photo without a transparent Keanu or pds file, simply:
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Here's a cheap Son of a Pen for you....

A lot of waiters would be pretty honoured to have the opportunity to serve a real life swan, should one walk into their restaurant.

Although if it was this swan, I wouldn't go over board serving him. He lets you know right away that gratuities aren't really his thing...

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Luke Geissbuhler: 2010 Father of the Year

Wow, Luke Geissbuhler wins the 2010 Father of the Year Award, 4,677,020 spots ahead of yours truly. How many dad's take the time out of their lives to devote this much time, energy, and intellect to their 7 year old sons?

Luke and his son Max attached an HD camera to a weather balloon, hit record, and let it float high enough into the atmosphere to make out the curvature of earth and see the blackness of space.

The results are breathtaking!

From the video:
In August 2010, we set out to send a camera to space.

The mission was to attach a HD video camera to a weather balloon and send it up into the upper stratosphere to film the blackness beyond our earth.

Eventually, the balloon will grow from lack of atmospheric pressure, burst, and begin to fall.

It would have to survive 100 mph winds, temperatures of 60 degrees below zero, speeds of over 150 mpg, and the high risk of a water landing.

To retrieve the craft, it would need to deploy a parachute, descend through the clouds and transmit a GPS coordinate to a cell phone tower.

Then we have to find it.

Unbelievable! The fact that they got their camera high enough to make out the curvature of the earth is jaw droppingly mind blowing.

I love space exploration, and will admit to multitudinous mental deficiencies in regards to landing crafts on different planets, but I don't understand why NASA can't mount a camera like this on a Mars Lander.

How cool would it be to hear the winds of Mars? To see the descent to the planet from space the way the Geissbuhler family's experiment did?

For more info on the project, visit the Brooklyn Space Program website.

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Thursday, October 07, 2010

Spell check CAN make you hugenormousely smarter!

Some people stuck in the last century criticize things like spell check, claiming that they are preventing us from learning how spelling works through hard work and practice.

You know, the way us thirtysomethings did back during the Cold War!

Well today, it actually made me smarter! For years, I thought "ginormous" was a made up word, amalgamating "gigantic" and "enormous". Turns out it's been in the dictionary since 2007, nearly 60 years after it arose as a slang word by British Troops in World War II.

How would I have known that without spell check!

Now that it's been legitimized, I'll need to find a new amalgamation of synonyms with which to amuse myself with in it's place.

I think I'll start using 'hugenormous', although 'enormonstrous', or 'heftuge' are pretty good too...

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