Comments on: Wil, Artemis Eternal on Mahalo

By: Phil V

Phil V — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:20:43 +0000

Is Wil wearing a Serial Experiments Lain shirt? That is one stylish dude.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:36:20 +0000

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.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:10:33 +0000

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.

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:56:05 +0000

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

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By: madge

madge — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:53:01 +0000

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)

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:56:56 +0000

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.

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:32:24 +0000

Who’s what on where now?

By: CR

CR — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:11:08 +0000

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.

By: Me

Me — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:37:37 +0000

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

By: Steven Cook

Steven Cook — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:16:56 +0000

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?

By: JD

JD — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:13:17 +0000

Wendy,

I just couldn’t resist.
http://www.delillophoto.com/images/222mk.jpg

By: Mikhail Bragoria

Mikhail Bragoria — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:51:55 +0000

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.”

By: Mikhail Bragoria

Mikhail Bragoria — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:45:41 +0000

Phil, did you remember to check local water restrictions/dam levels before flushing all their toilets?

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:08:20 +0000

In that part of the world most foreigners are checking out the toilets because of a weak stomach, a bit like foreigners in England.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:57:06 +0000

How is Jessica Mae Stover the Barack Obama of film making? Can someone please explain that?

By: Tim G

Tim G — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:30:50 +0000

Wil is 36 and his younger son is 16? I guess he didn’t wait to start a family…or perhaps he adopted.

By: bswift

bswift — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:56:35 +0000

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!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:07:45 +0000

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!

By: Michael L

Michael L — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:41:06 +0000

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…