Archive of entries posted on 27th March 2014

Because I Need Something Else to Put My Eye Out With

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[High Praise! to Dude! I Want That]

Yet another toy I really wish I’d had when I was a young boy dreaming of wantonly abusing the explosive forces of nature:

* Using air and water, launch a 2 liter plastic soda bottle up to 100 feet into the air.

* Great outdoor fun for picnics, science projects, business lunches, etc.

* Very, very messy and dangerous indoor fun for those same events.


[Aquapod Soda Bottle Rocket Launcher] (Viewer #125,158)

ThinkGeek‘s out of stock, but Amazon still has it.

Wisdom of the Day: Cleaner Science Manager Tambourine

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Shooting up Obamacare

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There’s a candidate for Congress over in Alabama that’s getting some attention with a campaign video. Will Brooke — NOT the guy from Montana, although you can bet some stupid liberal will try to make that connection — is from the Birmingham area and has a business degree and a law degree from the University of Alabama, and is an executive with Harbert Management Corporation.

The sixth District is the middle of the state. It starts a little north of Montgomery and runs to above Birmingham, encompassing much of Jefferson County (where Birmingham is, but not Birmingham itself), as well as Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Coosa, and Shelby counties. It’s conservative. No Democrat has received more than 30% of the vote since 1993, when current Congressman Spencer Bachus (a Republican who’s retiring) unseated Democrat Ben Erdreich.

Republicans running include:

I can’t find any Democrats running, so whoever wins the Republican primary will likely be the next Representative for that district.

Oh, yeah. Will Brooke’s video. Have you seen it?


[YouTube]

Now, is Will Brooke the man needed in Washington? Maybe. It’s not my district — heck, it’s not even my state — so I don’t have a vote in that race (unless I voted Democrat, then I could vote early, often, and everywhere).

I hope my friends in Alabama make a good decision. And, I hope that whoever is elected to Congress this fall will indeed take down Obamacare.

Random Thoughts: Nate Silver, Farmers, and Jaws

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Was wondering if Nate Silver was developing some hubris leading to a face-plant, but I’ve really liked most of what I’ve seen of 538 so far.

New horror movie pitch: Murder Zoo

Was out of cone filters for the coffee maker, so I shaped a paper towel into a cone and used that instead. I’m basically MacGyver.

Stupid farmers. Why can’t they provide something of use to society like lawyers?

I’m afraid that like with Skynet, when President Obama becomes self-aware he’ll freak out and start nuking everyone.

Maybe now the Democrats will run someone in Florida who hates seniors and someone in California who hates putting avocado on everything.

Alias’s rejected boyfriend might be Indiana Jones? Don’t know if that’s Ben Affleck as Batman bad, but still…

When people say not to worry about the national debt, they remind me of that mayor from Jaws.

So far I’ve thought the new 538 site has been pretty good, but that’s just commentary and I don’t have any statistics to bad that up.

Admittedly, Nate Silver does need a bit more rigorous data study to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Paul Krugman is a giant hack. Still, this is a fun article.