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December 2011
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Wainy Days →
Uhhh so David Wain has a web series and it’s effing hilarious. Watch it all. I think I’ve just attached a link to the first ‘psode but they’re all there and they’re all good. I sat down to watch a couple one night, to see what they were all about, and ended up watching all three seasons. You will come to LOATHE that fucking Fiat commercial that plays before every one...
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October 2011
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September 2011
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FEMA uses the 'Waffle House Index' to measure... →
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August 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Apr 25th
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Euthanasia Rollercoaster →
“’Euthanasia Coaster’ is a hypothetical euthanasia machine in the form of a roller coaster engineered to humanely – with elegance and euphoria – take the life of a human being.”
Apr 21st
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I never thought I'd want to go to Toledo, OH this... →
“Everything I expected and more”
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March 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior →
Shit, this too. “It only seems right for me to begin this blog with the topic that inspired me to start it in the first place. Not too long ago, I came across Jamey Pittman’s “Pac-Man Dossier”, which is a ridiculously-detailed explanation of the mechanics of Pac-Man. I found it absolutely fascinating, so this site is my attempt to discover and aggregate similarly-detailed information...
Dec 23rd
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November 2010
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The Pipe To Nowhere
I work in a flashy new building. Built in 2005 and chock full of float glass and maple, it definitely says “science happens here”. The problem is that it was also built by the lowest bidder, so it also says “bullshit happens here”. For example, only half of the lightbulbs in our lab were installed when we moved in, presumably to save money. We had to request to get an...
Nov 22nd
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Nov 16th
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October 2010
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These are the magazines on the back of the toilet...
For the longest time I had to thumb through this one: and it is not nearly as exciting as your initial gut reaction (OHHELLYEAH LASER MAGAZINE!!!!) would lead you to believe; it’s all super-technical boring, boring, boring engineer stuff.  And when I had almost lost all hope, prepared to accept the fact that my afternoon constitutional would be made forever dull by this same issue of...
Oct 23rd
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Oct 14th
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Gourmet Jello Shots? →
This is really cool, but I’ll probably just drink.
Oct 6th
September 2010
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Hard to believe this happened over a year ago →
I thought of this and had to find and re-read the article.  This is just so damn cool. oh, hello pentacene I get the same excited scientist feeling looking at this image as I get looking at Pale Blue Dot, despite the incredible differences in scale.
Sep 21st
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Conclusion: You are now the most popular person on... →
The folks over at Southern Fried Science have provided us with a recipe for making “decent” beer with limited supplies (in this case, on an oceanographic research vessel). God bless huge scientist brains and their desire to kill themselves off. Or was it optimize themselves?
Sep 20th
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I feel like an ass saying it...
…but when has that stopped me? I feel like I may be better at documenting and overall careful science than many my new co-workers.  Granted this is a young company and they’re in the middle of the rough transition from care-free R&D documentation to hyper-critical production-standard GLP shit but then I’m a pretty young guy and I feel like these older industry types should...
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August 2010
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Art, anyone? →
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June 2010
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Jun 24th
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So Hooper came to visit...
True to form we started talking like stupid scientists, then our curiosity got the best of us and we had to cave and start doing math.  Today’s topic: a mole of chickens. Average chicken weight is 6 lbs, which is 2.7 kg.  A mole of chickens therefore has a mass of 1.6 X 10^24.  This puts it in the celestial body range.  Earth is 6.0 X 10^24 and the moon is 7.4 x 10^22 meaning that a...
Jun 23rd
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Wonder how the pastor will explain this one
God mustn’t have thought it captured His good side? Uh so this happened in Cincinnati: BONK
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Healthy Taffy Sucks
So a coworker of mine buys these FRS chewy things.  I’d never heard of them but I guess they’re supposed to be some sort of energy supplement in taffy form, chock full o’ antioxidants and some flavonoid called quercetin that I guess is supposed to be super ass good for you.  Lance Armstrong’s all silly for ‘em.  Another coworker of mine tried one and said it tasted...
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Oh Snap They Back →
hiatus OVER (hopefully)
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Japan never ceases to amaze me →
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May 2010
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WatchWatch
Who better to explain how “Top Kill” works better than the one, the only Bill Nye the Science Guy. EDIT: Whoops, well Top Kill didn’t take, now we’re cuttin’ & cappin’.
May 29th
Ha Ha....zing! →
May 24th