9 Minutes of Nuclear Explosions

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[Nuclear Bomb Test Compilation HD] (Viewer #555,500)

You’ve probably never seen more than 5 or 10 seconds of stock footage of a nuke before. Try the long version. Watching that fireball grow and expand and roil and glow, looking for all the world like an inexorable alien invader from another dimension… it’ll change your brain.

To contemplate that the mind of man is capable of mastering such forces will fill you with either pride or horror or an odd mixture of both.

Change

A new report shows that Hollywood stars are carefully avoiding participation in recent ad campaigns promoting Obamacare.

Apparently the new saying in Hollywood is “there’s one such thing as bad publicity”.

Link of the Day: 44-Year Old Game Is New to Me

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Conway’s Game of Life

Backstory on The Game of Life (not the board game, the unrelated computer algorithm).

It’s a fun little time-waster, if nothing else.

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Wisdom of the Day: Labeling Feinstein Protest Climate Connection Armisen Restaurant German

It’s Always Sunny in Washington, DC – Joe Helps Gore Save the Environment Part 2

Joe: What’s up?  What’s up is that Al has some horrible, disease.

Gore: I do not.

Joe: Oh yeah.  Go check his trash, dude.  Check his trash. Check his trash.  He has some awful, green brackish fluids just oozing out of his orifices. Go check. Go check.  Go Check. I’ll hold him here with one of my patented anecdotes, dude.  Go Check.

(Barack runs off).

Joe: I just got back from the dental hygienist, dude.  I think she realizes she is the only one Obamacare covers.  Doesn’t have to compete anymore.  Total witch, dude.  Total witch. There is just no pleasing that woman.  I brush.  I floss, but she is just grumbling and poking me with those pointy metal sticks, grumbling about tartar.  Look at those gums bleed.  Give me those weapons and I’ll make your gums bleed too, you sadistic witch.  That never happens to me at home.  And on and on about the tartar.  Goodness, look at all that tartar.  When you eat fish and chips, you won’t even need the sauce.

Gore: I’ve always wondered that, dude.  Always wondered.  What is tartar sauce?  Is that where they get tartar sauce?  The dentist just saves all that stuff for them?  Is that the base of the sauce?

Joe: And what about sesame seeds, dude?  Where do they come from?  Have you ever seen a sesame tree?

Gore: I’m gonna go bury a Whopper and see what happens, dude.

(Barack quickly returns with the green, soaked Always).

Barack: It’s true! It’s totally true, dudes!  Look, look, look!

Joe: That’s what happens when you make love to trees, dude.  They jump, man.  The diseases jump.  The viruses mutate and jump species, dude.  You got like bark rot or something man.

Barack: Or root rot.

Joe: Or like termites, dude.  You better, like, go dip your root in pesticides or something, dude.

Gore: At least I didn’t bang a tranny.  I didn’t bang Kerry.

Joe: Totally, dude.  He banged Kerry.  He totally banged him.

Barack: How many times do we have to have this conversation, dudes? I did not bang Kerry.

Kerry: Oh you did.  You totally banged me.

Gore: But seriously, dudes.  Seriously.  I do not have root rot.  You are all a bunch of morons.  Moron.  Moron.  Moron.  Look.  Watch this, dudes.  (grabs the Always and squeezes it into his mouth).  It’s a wheat grass smoothie.  See, dudes, just a wheat grass smoothie.  That’s all it is.  A wheat grass smoothie.

Joe: Ugh, I think I’m gonna be sick, dude.  That is vile.  That is so vile.  I can’t believe you swallowed that stuff.  That stuff leaked out of your body, dude.  I’m gonna hurl.

Gore: No it didn’t, dude.  It’s just wheat grass.

Barack: That is disgusting, dude.  Totally disgusting.  Way worse than that caveman diet Michelle is forcing me to try.  Way worse.

Joe: Caveman diet?  Dude?  What even is that? A caveman diet?

Barack: I’m supposed to like, eat what cavemen would eat and stuff.  And that will make me lose weight and stuff.

Kerry: Dude, you, like, can’t do that, dude.  Of course you’d lose weight. You can’t eat like a caveman.  You see any dinosaurs, dude?  You see any dinosaurs around?  You got no food supply.  You’ll, like, totally starve to death, dude.

Barack: No, no, no.  That’s not the diet.  Of course, I can’t eat dinosaurs, dude.  Can’t eat those.  But I try and eat like the things an unfrozen caveman would eat today.  Like, tons of meat and stuff.  You know, the kinds of food that we evolved to eat.  Our natural foods, dude.  That’s what our body knows how to process best and stuff.  That’s how we evolved.

Joe: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.  Dudes.  Cavemen weren’t skinny.  What?  Are you looking for a Flintstone physique?  Last I checked, cavemen were chubby.  Totally chubby, dude. You’re already, chubby, dude.  The diet worked.

Barack: Seriously, dude?  Seriously?  The source of your information is a cartoon?  The caveman diet works, dude.  It’s, like, totally science.

Joe: Okay, okay, okay.  Let’s assume you are right for a moment and that I am wrong.  Let’s assume that cavemen were skinny and that The Flintstones, which by all accounts, was a very well researched and educational program respected among the paleo community, was wrong afterall. I would posit, dudes, that it is the caveman lifestyle not the diet that is to blame.

Barack: What the…..

Joe: Listen, listen, listen.  The caveman weren’t skinny because of what they ate, dudes.  They were skinny because of what it took just to feed themselves.  If you had to track your wild Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey for five days across the frozen tundra before you could eat it, you’d be skinny too.  No, you just have to call to Jeeves and have him fetch it from the freezer.   They had to be more active, dude.  They were burning more calories, dude.  Burning more calories.

Barack: That’s not the point, dude.  Not the point.  Not the point at all.  The caveman diet isn’t about exercise.  That would be the caveman workout, dude.  We’re not taking about the workout.  It is about eating the foods that our bodies evolved to eat.  It’s science, dude.  It’s totally science.

Kerry: Wait a minute.  Did I just hear you say evolution was science, dude?  That science is evolution?

To be continued, maybe, if I feel like it.

A great-grandma phone

FlintstonePhoneMy mother is thinking of getting a smart phone. She has one of those indestructible flip phones that makes and receives calls. Does it very well. But, she wants more.

She likes to text. Yes, there’s a 78-year-old woman in southeast Georgia that stays in touch with her daughters and grand-daughters (and grand-sons, too, I suppose) by texting. Of course, on one of those little flip phones, If she wants to say “Thank you,” she has to type 88,444,22,666,555,###,9999,6966,888. And, if she accidentally goes too far, she has to keep pressing until it goes back around. You remember those days, right? Well, that’s called “Wednesday” where she’s from. It’s also called “Thursday through Tuesday.”

Well, she thinks she wants a smart phone. Everybody else has one, and she don’t want to be left out. And she’s not sure what she wants to do.

She’s thinking about an iPhone, but they’re just so expensive. So she’s wondered about one of those Samsung Galaxy S4 phones. But they’re expensive, too. Her oldest daughter has one of those DROID MAXX RAZR things. One of those phones where words are spelled all capitalized and wrong. She doesn’t want one of them, because she sees where my sister is always on the Facebook complaining about it, and she doesn’t want to spend a lot of money on something to complain about. There are lot cheaper ways to find something to complain about.

Now, last summer, I sought out some advice for myself and many of y’all suggested the Samsung Galaxy S3 or S4. Of course, some other phones were suggested, too, and they sounded good. I ended up getting an iPhone 5, but not because I ignored the suggestions. It was because I went with a smaller carrier that had a limited selection. I actually got a Samsung phone from the carrier, but they didn’t have the really good ones (no Galaxy S3 or S4) like y’all suggested. And, boy did I find out there’s a difference between the Samsung Galaxy and the Samsung SomethingElse. Ended up replacing it with an iPhone 5, and been happy.

Well, my mother is on Verizon. And they have a good selection of phones. I just want to make sure she’s happy with whatever smart phone she gets. I’m going to suggest an iPhone (based on my personal experience), or a Samsung Galaxy S4 (based on the rave reviews y’all and others I know have given). I’m also going to show her the rest of the suggestions y’all made last summer. But, since that was nearly a year ago, and lots of things happen in a short time in the technocracy world, I’m going to ask y’all again if there’s currently another phone she needs to consider.

What, if anything, should I add to the list:

  • iPhone
  • Samsung Galaxy S4

What else goes on this list?

Thanks.

Random Thoughts: Spying, Science and Religion, and Hangover President

If it’s too silly a name for your hamster, it will make a good rapper name.

An anagram for “Koch Brothers” is “Emmanuel Goldstein.”

This cat makes the same sound as Donald Rumsfeld.

Politicians should be constantly spied on. With the power they have, nothing about them should be private.

I still have hope for our nation, but I doubt things will get better until “Ben Affleck as Batman” is our past and not our future.

“Hey, kids, know what’s groovy? Propping up your failed, power-hungry president!”

So an interview with President Obama only led to 19,000 clicks for Obamacare site? Should have just tried to get an Instalanche.

People who put science in opposition to religion have little understanding of the scope of either.

Science is not a replacement for religion. You’ll find plenty of answers in science, but it’s a silly place to look for purpose and meaning.

If Obama was teaming up with Zach Galifianakis, they should have done a Hangover-type sketch to explain how the Obamacare bill got made.