Well, it’s the weekend, and not only that, but as you read this I’m probably wandering around Quito someplace, checking out all the toilets to see which way they flush depending on what side of the Equator they’re on.
I’m a riot on vacations.
So take a sec from whatever you’re doing, and watch two, two, two BA crushes in one: Jessica Mae Stover and Wil Wheaton interviewed on Mahalo Daily.
Here’s JSto:
Here’s Wil:
Wil sicced Leah D’Emilio on me, so I sicced her on JSto. So I figure I’ll post ‘em both.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:41 am
OK, like when you say a “crush” on Wil, what does that mean? Like you wanna see him in a Mankini? Cause, I’ll post pics of me in a mankini that should end all future man crushes…
August 9th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Wil was one of my very first crushes, EVER. Mmmm, Wesley Crusher, mmmm TNG, mmmm 1987…. I’d pay to see him in a mankini any day!
August 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Just search for “mancrush” on this site and you’ll find the whole history…
Anyways, Phil, you should know by now that the whole toilets-flush-the-other-way-in-the-southern-hemisphere thing is totally bunk. The Coriolis force is just WAY too negligible over such a smale scale to get the toilet circulating in one preferential direction. What really determines the direction of flow is the shape of the bowl and the dynamics of the incoming water.
Maybe you should write a page about this? Wait. You already did! Just for everyone else, here’s the link: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/coriolis.html
I would have liked to have seen some order-of-magnitude numbers in there, just for good measure!
August 9th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Wil is 36 and his younger son is 16? I guess he didn’t wait to start a family…or perhaps he adopted.
August 9th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
How is Jessica Mae Stover the Barack Obama of film making? Can someone please explain that?
August 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
In that part of the world most foreigners are checking out the toilets because of a weak stomach, a bit like foreigners in England.
August 9th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Phil, did you remember to check local water restrictions/dam levels before flushing all their toilets?
August 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Phil, please disregard my last comment. It just occurred to me that you don’t have to use extra water at all. Just politely ask locals immediately after they go to the toilet, but immediately before they flush, “Excuse me, may I please come inside the cubicle and see which way the water flushes? Oh, and don’t worry about privacy. Your personal information will be anonymised.”
August 9th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Wendy,
I just couldn’t resist.
http://www.delillophoto.com/images/222mk.jpg
August 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I think you’ll find that the idea that water in toilets drains in different directions either side of the equator is a myth (like AGW). Look it up in wikipedia. Or maybe you were joking?
August 9th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Say something about this:
“Why beaming messages to aliens in space could destroy our planet.” The Daily Mail is there
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3789962
August 9th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Robbie, she explained it herself… like Obama raising lots of money for his campaign at the local ‘grass roots’ level, she’s raising money for the film in a similar way, at the local level. I think she was also drawing a parallel to how effective such a strategy is for not only raising money, but for connecting with one’s audience.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Who’s what on where now?
August 9th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Phil,
I have a couple of north-south hemisphere astronomy questions.
First, Is the man on the moon upside down and backwards, and if so, does it change gradually as you move north to south? So is a crescent moon a smiley face or a frown (depending on whether it’s waxing or waning) on the equator? It was mentioned in my Astronomy class, but I didn’t think to ask for the specifics.
Second, how annoying is it to try to find south using the stars? Up here in the north, we have it pretty easy.
Also, what are the coolest objects in the sky that you can see from the south, or even from the equator, that we can’t see in the north?
Thanks.
August 9th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
I’m looking forward to The Little Astronomer,s first essay on returning to school “What I did on my Holidays” Mummy and I sat in the sun and watched the wildlife while Daddy checked out all the toilet cubicles!
Expect a concerned call from her teacher. ( My mother was an actress and in one of my very early essays I said that she went out every night wearing too much make up! That got the teachers wondering)
August 10th, 2008 at 8:56 am
[...] Wil, Artemis Eternal on Mahalo [...]
August 10th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I really like the idea of a grass roots revival. Think I’ll drop s few bucks on them,,,and forward their site to my kids.
GAry 7
August 11th, 2008 at 4:10 am
My toilet flushes counterclockwise, I live in Florida, and it’s hurricane season. I’ll probably wake up and find my entire life was a bad dream.
August 11th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Oh no, JD! It says ACCESS FORBIDDEN!!! *cries* I’m guessing there was a hot photoshop of Wil’s face on Jessica Alba’s body? Lol!
Tim G, Wil Wheaton’s kids are his stepkids, but I guess they’ve been his stepkids for so long that he just calls them his kids.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:20 am
Is Wil wearing a Serial Experiments Lain shirt? That is one stylish dude.