Comments on: AAAS report #4: Science is a funny business

By: Crazy Bob-Astronomy To Go

Crazy Bob-Astronomy To Go — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:57:45 +0000

Sounds like an incredible night. But, I do hope you learned your lesson. You can write as much as you like, with any slant, about any subject you like, but as soon as you mention a cat, even in the most obscure way, that just became the whole point of your article. Yes, we cat folks are like that…and damn proud too. By the way, the rest of this posting (blah, blah, blah) was interesting too.

By: Roger Williamson

Roger Williamson — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:14:27 +0000

Dogs are are OK it just depends on how you prepare them. I like BBQ best. Cats rule. Of course my cat is sitting here watching me type this and I dare not offend his majesty.

By: Zachary Kessin

Zachary Kessin — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:19:13 +0000

I love the igs, I’ve been a few times, sometimes as part of one of the delegations (Usually the local SCA sends one)

The Periodic table table is pretty cool too.

I also managed to see my first few DSO’s last night. I got myself a set of 7×50 binocs for my birthday and got decent views of the Orion nebula and the Pleadies (and a bunch of other stuff)

By: Joel Shurkin

Joel Shurkin — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:13:49 +0000

The Joel was Joel Shurkin (moi) and wasn’t Lara lovely?

By: Berkeley

Berkeley — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:20:38 +0000

Astonomer 1: “…..so anyway, the cop pulls me over and asks if I realized I had just run a redlight. So I said that I did not see the light as being red, because it must have blue-shifted as I was approaching it.”
Astronomer 2: “And he let you go?”
Astronomer 1: “No. He gave me a speeding ticket instead.”

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:09:50 +0000

Jim, thanks! I’m glad what I said was effective. I was nervous, walking away from my prepared talk… I wrote up a long blog entry on the plane about it, and I’ll post it tonight probably.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:10:20 +0000

Phil,

I wish I could have been the fly on the wall at that conversation! I bet at times it was hilarious.

Just briefly wandered on the Ig Nobel site and saw the “snot vacuum for kids”. Had to laugh thinking two things: 1) there’s no way any kid would allow that to come near his/her face and 2) what’s wrong with the current bulb syringe one? At least with that one, you don’t have to worry about digging out the safety plug in the outlet to use, it’s cheaper, and probably about as effective.