Swiftly acknowledged

James Randi is a man of exceptional taste.

January 5th, 2007 9:48 AM by Phil Plait in About this blog, Astronomy, Cool stuff, Humor, NASA, Pretty pictures, Science, Skepticism, Time Sink | 5 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

5 Responses to “Swiftly acknowledged”

1. Melusine Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 9:53 am

I think it’s very odd that I can’t get into randi.org at work – I get the dreaded ACCESS DENIED, but yet I can get into The Onion, which has an amusing Bush/FermiLab article today.

So, what does Randi have good taste about? Oh, you, right?
2. Smart_Cookie Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

Phil – that’s a very good picture of you. Most impressed.
3. Melusine Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 2:25 pm

It’s the nerdy, teenage-idol picture!

…or an excellent bottle of Pinot Grigio…
4. Melusine Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

BTW, Bush only WISHES he remotely talk like that in The Onion satire on Fermilab. Somehow I don’t think he took physics at Yale.

That is the teenage-idol picture, but the one I was thinking of was specifically surrounded by a yellow circular border (I have it saved somewhere ‘cuz it’s kind of funny). Alas, I can’t locate it on the web.

But, what’s this? Is Phil really a Teletubby with that thing coming out of his head?
5. Melusine Says:
January 5th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

…Bush only wishes he could remotely talk like that…

Or self-correct his errors. :-/

About Bad Astronomy

Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He's written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic and fights the abuse of science, but his true love is praising the wonders of real science.

The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.

Contact me: The Bad Astronomer "at" gmail "dot" com




		Bad Astronomy was chosen as one of Time.com's Best Blogs of 2009.

Death from the Skies!

Order a copy of Death from the Skies! from Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.

"If things worked the way I wanted them to, any reporter about to do another 'sensational' story on deadly meteors would consult this volume, and bang! common sense would find its way into the news. How strange would that world be?"
-- Adam Savage, Mythbusters

"Reading this book is like getting punched in the face by Carl Sagan. Frightening, but oddly exhilarating."
-- Daniel H. Wilson, author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising