Archive of entries posted on 13th March 2014

For a Quarter Million Dollars, It Should Include Uranus, Neptune, AND Pluto

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Submitted by Anonymiss of Nuking Politics [High Praise!]

From The Verge:

You can now have that solar system diorama you made in school on your wrist in the form of a watch. Van Cleef & Arpel have debuted a gorgeous new astronomical watch, the 44mm Midnight Planétarium, at Geneva’s annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie. The watch shows both numerical time and the rotation of five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn — visible from Earth. Each planet is represented by precious and semi-precious stones, which rotate around the sun (a stone in the center) in the amount of time it takes for the actual planet to make a rotation. You’ll easily be able to see a full rotation of Mercury every 88 days and Venus every 224 days, but it’ll take a while to see a full rotation of Saturn — 29 years to be exact.

There’s a video at the link above that shows a CGI demonstration of the watch. The real one’s probably pretty boring, action-wise.

Wisdom of the Day: Insurance Pull-Up Matrix Chipotle Want Bass Leopard Parents Daylight Horror Jokers Beer

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Who Murdered the Dinosaurs?

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It’s a new site for libertarians (sorry, Carpenter) and conservatives who write fiction: Liberty Island. You can go there and read a bunch of great short stories, and if you’re a writer, submit your own work.

Hey, what’s that? It’s a story called “Who Murdered the Dinosaurs?” by me! Yes, my first piece of published fiction, and reading it is MANDATORY. And not like Obamacare mandatory; real mandatory.

Anyway, If you liked my In My Worlds, it’s a similar style humor, and it’s about two CSIs finding out that the dinosaurs didn’t go extinct through natural causes — they were murdered! — and they need to find the culprits before they come after humans as well. I wrote it on a lark between some novels I’m working on (which I hope to have news on soon about when you get to see those).

So go read my story, and register and write a review if you like my story (but don’t write anything if you don’t like my story because you don’t want people to know you’re weird). And read some other stories at the site as well (I haven’t had a chance to read them all yet, but what I’ve read so far has been great).

So go. NOW! And then tell me your favorite lines; I always like that feedback. Mine is the one about “yellow gold”; I really like that one for some reason. And my favorite part is either the part with the rival CSIs or Devereux talking to her boss.

Random Thoughts: Climate Change, Shelia Jackson Lee, and Wedlock

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A good way for Obama to shake the lame duck image would be to start nuking things.

It’s climate change, not global warming. It can change in other ways than getting hotter like getting colder or transforming into a werewolf.

So are we to assume Obama was unable to get any current boy bands to come visit him?

I wish in Legend of Zelda you could fill an empty bottle with espresso so you could get a hyperlink.

So have Republicans developed strategies to deal with the popularity and success of Obamacare in the midterms?

Have some sympathy; if you felt it was your job to prop up Obama, you’d be very angry all the time too.

“I really like freedom. But I also really like telling other people what to do.” -most everyone

So far Obamacare has gone about as well as you can expect for a bill made by arrogant idiots who have no idea how money works.

As a historian, I’m pretty sure Lincoln would have killed Zach Galifianakis with an axe and then guzzled some Everclear.

Seems like more shame should be directed at the voters for these moron Reps who inexplicably keep returning to Congress.

Maybe Sheila Jackson Lee needs to go to Vox and have the news explained to her.

80 million years ago, the Constitution was written after America defeated the Persians in Sparta.

Those of us who don’t like government are angry because it keeps getting bigger but the people who like government seem even angrier.

I guess the way to not be angry is to be one of those people who think the current Vice President is Dick Cheney.

I once heard of a story of a person who wasn’t sure what party Obama belonged. God bless him.

Everything is a racist codeword if you’re a moron.

Out of curiosity, what is Putin’s stated opinion on Joseph Stalin?

Maybe it would help stop people from having kids out of wedlock if we stopped using such scary-sounding terms for marriage like “wedlock.”

How about a Logan’s Run type thing, but for politicians who have spent a certain number of terms in Congress.

Don’t end up like me, stuck in wedlock and punished with babies.

“Far East” is offensive. I was unaware.

There’s so much offensive stuff to keep track everyone should stop assuming people know what’s offensive or not.

Where do I get the codebook to find out what hidden racist messages Republicans have for me?

God made sure the T. rex had tiny arms because if it had normal-size arms it would still be around today and it would be unstoppable.

The younger generation doesn’t appreciate parties as much as they didn’t have to fight for their right to party.

Apparently there is a very high burnout rate for playing Dr. Who.