Sunday, May 31, 2015

343 - There Are Still 'Lost Probe' Posters Stapled To Rocks All Over Mars, Please Read "Hermione Granger & The Goddamn Patriarchy" Today!, Another Entry In The Annals Of Inexplicable Research Funding, "The Ladybird Book Of Completely Safe Experiments For Kids Who Aren't Utter Morons", and Better Versions Of Poor Films Are Available If One Is Left Alone For A Few Minutes

11:58 AM Mr. Silver
"Aliens Return Beagle-2 as Part of Invasion Scheme"
12:06 PM Mr. Blue
Regarding finding Beagle-2: why didn't the Mars Rover just jingle some keys?
After locating the long lost lander they gave it some treats.”
Come on folks!!
12:12 PM Mr. Blue
They found it gnawing on some petrified martian furniture!!”
I'll be at the Laugh Factory on Tuesday!
12:13 PM Mr. Silver
"NASA heard scratching at a back panel of the Mars Rover and realized that Beagle-2 was still out there."
"Poor thing looked so dejected when we let it in."
12:13 PM Mr. Blue
The entire northern hemisphere is covered in Beagle-2 droppings.



12:41 PM Mr. Silver
Rather enjoying this...I like the book/film title: http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/boss-witch#.scP5maqQNG
1:01 PM Mr. Brown
Mr. Silver, what did I just read?
LOL
1:08 PM Mr. Silver
Dunno...Only managed to get through 1/2 of it myself so far.
When you grow up in a culture that allows wizards to speak to witches that way, how are you supposed to know that it’s wrong? But do it again and I’ll cut you.”
1:17 PM Mr. Brown
Yeah! lol
Hermione is the actually the hero in the entire story.
1:22 PM Mr. Silver
You're part of the problem, Muggle.
1:31 PM Mr. Brown
Burn that bitch down!
1:34 PM Mr. Brown
What's that smell? Oh sorry, its patronis.



Mr. Silver
"Researchers from the 'University of Science and Stuff', 'University of Like, Science', and 'University of Sciency Things' Come to Stunning Environmental and Zoological Conclusion - Retain Funding Against All Odds"
11:16 AM Mr. Silver
"And were the teams drunk?" We asked.
"We're from Sydney, Glasgow and Lausanne...what do you think?"
11:17 AM Mr. Amethyst
SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILVER!!!!
11:18 AM Mr. Silver
Oui?
I swear Phys.org puts these up occasionally like an Onion segment.



Mr. Brown
Have some old school hurt-your-child experiments!
7:03 AM Mr. Silver
That's not exactly "boiling water" and I've done that experiment.
7:03 AM Mr. Brown
Stripping a battery.
Even with supervision in school, I managed to burn myself with wires off a battery.
LOL
7:04 AM Mr. Silver
Yup, been there.  The miniscule 1st or 2nd degree burn from a botch is as safe and educational as the original experiment...bonus points!
7:04 AM Mr. Brown
Hold the wire on this end with this finger, and the other end with that finger. See it's getting hot? OUCH!”
7:05 AM Mr. Silver
"It's clearly quite dangerous to shine a torch into your eye."
Apparently he forgets how dim an old flashlight was.
7:06 AM Mr. Brown
Right.
Today its a bad idea because its like the sun shining in your eyes.
7:06 AM Mr. Silver
The whittling one is complete BS
Cutting towards the face of someone else!”
Really? Where? I see no kid kneeling on the ground.
7:07 AM Mr. Brown
It's showing proper way to carve. The only dangerous part is the knife.
7:07 AM Mr. Silver
Lead based paint!
7:07 AM Mr. Brown
Hehe
7:08 AM Mr. Silver
Really? You can read the ingredients on that smudge?
7:08 AM Mr. Brown
I like the description of the magnifying glass one.
Here is a boy leaning over a fire with a magnifying glass!”
Ok, so clearly the person that wrote that isn't smart enough to realize the kid is making the fire with it.
7:17 AM Mr. Silver
The man's a dip. I'd let Silver Jr. try all of this...unsupervised for most of them.
7:20 AM Mr. Brown
I already showed Brown Jr. how to make fire with magnifying glass and he's 7.



7:20 AM Mr. Silver
"SW fans rejoice at latest Episode VII reveal!"
Mr. Yellow
Thank goodness they used none of his ideas.
8:04 AM Mr. Silver
Yup.
Mr. Green
Come on now... There wouldn't be Star Wars without George.
8:07 AM Mr. Silver
I'm not saying he didn't spark the whole thing, and I'm glad he did.
It's just that left to his own devices, he produced 3 weak prequels.
And as time has gone on, it's pretty clear he's gotten a lot of undue credit for collaborative work.
8:12 AM Mr. Silver
Oh...sour grapes tale...
Couple days back I catch a post about a fan recut of the Hobbit movies
Cut all 3 down to 4.5 hours and took out a ton of garbage.
There was a link to get it if you followed the directions.
Naturally, such things only stay up an hour or so at best before being caught and killed.
So I started scrambling
Mrs. Silver, meanwhile, decided to start nagging relentlessly that we had to Gooooo!!! Noooow!!! Gotta Go NOW to the Post Office! Gotta go NOW to the BANK! Running out of TIME! What are you DOOOOOING!"
So much so I couldn't follow the directions and gave up in frustration.
We get in the car...start heading out. PO is on the way to the chiropractor, which is one of the quests.
"Have you got the stuff for the post office?"
"Hmm?"
"The post office? You know: Had to go before it closed? NOW?"
"Oh, I forgot it's MLK Day. The PO and bank are closed."
"(You...bitch...) Ah."
Of course, all the Hobbit links were dead by the time we got back.
8:32 AM Mr. Silver
That's the second time she's done that on a re-cut I wanted to see...the first, coincidentally to the conversation, was of Lucas's Episodes 1 through 3.
9:08 AM Mr. Yellow
Yes, he gave us three great movies. Then he gave us midiclorians and Jar Jar Binks.
9:13 AM Mr. Silver
"Master Qui Gon? You were telling Obi Wan that my (dubbed in voice) Force was powerful. What (dubbed in voice) is the Force?
"Yes, I performed tests and (dubbed in voice) the Force is strong in you, almost as strong as Master Yoda."
Friggin' midichlorians...what the hell was he thinking?
9:17 AM Mr. Yellow
They make no sense.
10:08 AM Mr. Silver
The only use of the word "midi-chlorian" itself (there's none of "midichlorian") in this book is (page 353, right at the end) an excerpt from a recording Lucas made, in July/August 1977, to elaborate on backstories for the (sequel) novelisation, comic books, and merchandising:
It is said certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.
This is the quote that's fairly universally used as proof that midi-chlorians were an idea way back in 1977. The book is apparently constructed from various LucasFilm archive material, rather than new interviews, so it seems reasonable to assume that the author had access to the actual recordings from 1977.
10:11 AM Mr. Silver
I suppose he just mangled the heck out of "mitochondria".

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