Archive of entries posted on 5th December 2013

Mostly Just a Cool Science Project, Except…

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Every nerd wants one of these (I know *I* do)

Best part – probably the “moon orbits the earth orbiting the sun” demo at 4:20 (may need to go full screen to see the sub-orbits)


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And it really IS just fun and games, until 9:28, when the prof tosses out a VERY casual remark, “Is General Relativity in the state standards? No”.

His remark following that remark chilled my soul a little bit.

And also made me hate public education in general just a tiny bit more than I already do.

Caution: You May Become Stupider Just By Being Exposed to These Words

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Shame on you genetic lottery winners for paying an artificially low price!

We currently have a highly discriminatory system where if you’re sick, if you’ve been sick or [if] you’re going to get sick, you cannot get health insurance.

The only way to end that discriminatory system is to bring everyone into the system and pay one fair price. That means that the genetic winners, the lottery winners who’ve been paying an artificially low price because of this discrimination now will have to pay more in return. And that, by my estimate, is about four million people. In return, we’ll have a fixed system where over 30 million people will now for the first time be able to access fairly price and guaranteed health insurance.

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The President Has a Learning Disability

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So here’s what Obama said in his recent speech: “By the way, Christmas time is no time for Congress to tell more than 1 million of these Americans that they have lost their unemployment insurance.”

Really? His blundering polices have cost millions of Americans to lose their health insurance and he’s talking about how bad it is other people cause a loss in insurance? You can’t help but conclude that Obama has a severe learning disability — he is completely incapable of learning. No matter what happens, he will continue to be arrogant and completely detached because he has no ability to learn from the consequences of his actions.

I also love how he said in the speech “government is us.” Yeah, no; you’re not putting this huge failure of Obamacare on me. I would never be involved with a tech project that failed that spectacularly because I have this thing called integrity and competence. Also, I have a modicum of leadership that I would at least be able to spot massive failures coming down the pipe and do something about them. This failure is all you, buddy. Government is not us; right now it’s a bunch of screw up and incompetents we would never put up with in the private sector.

Random Thoughts: Lecturing on Racism, Whining, and Movie Lengths

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It must be really depressing listening to that “Chesnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” song after you’ve just turned 93.

We have to force our beliefs on the religious so they won’t force their beliefs on us.

No trust remains that the left cares about racism beyond its political advantage to them.

So, please, liberals, stop lecturing on racism. No conservative believes it’s anything other than posturing anymore.

Are we talking about making income equality within America or within the whole world? I don’t think I can live on $12k a year.

“This is no time for the people of Alderaan to be without a planet.” -Grand Moff Tarkin

This is no time for America to be without warships.” -General Tojo

If we were smart, any time the government asked how things are, we’d say, “Everything’s great!” so it wouldn’t try to fix things.

If you live America, you already won the life lottery. If you whine about someone having more than you, you should be punched in the face.

Any American whining about someone having more is basically a millionaire whining about unfair it is someone else has billions.

Life is unfair. And if you live in America, it’s unfair in your favor. Mediocrity is rewarded with gross sums of money here.

I have a brand new thing to be angry about: My wife watching Christmas romance movies under my profile on Netflix.

Now I have my Breaking Bad I’m watching surrounded by Netflix suggestions like “12 Dates of Christmas” and “Desperately Seeking Santa.”

Wonder Woman too? This next Superman movie is starting to sound a little too busy.

People should have me write movies — but only if you think people would like awesome movies with no boring parts.

Why do they leave boring parts in movies? Boring is not that hard to identify. Find it and get rid of it.

Little tip: If your movie is over ninety minutes, it most likely has lots of boring parts in need of cutting.

The second transformers movie was two and half hours. Was there not a single sane person at Paramount who questioned that?

Pacific Rim, robots punching monsters, was 2h 12m. Didn’t need to watch it to know it had lots of unnecessary plot to cut.

Movies are just way too long these days. It’s like all the editors died or something.

So who was the first chef to use sodium bisulfite?