Comments on: Perspective http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:30:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Louis CK: Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/comment-page-2/#comment-140799 Louis CK: Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:15:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/#comment-140799 [...] VIDEO (via Phil Plait) [...] [...] VIDEO (via Phil Plait) [...]

]]> By: bartkid http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/comment-page-2/#comment-136395 bartkid Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:35:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/#comment-136395 >Until he was seven, he thought that my Atari 2600 was darn cool. Lesson learned: Stay cool; stay away from seven-year-olds. >I still have my BETAMAX (1982) with the 12′ long wired remote! I'm so old I remember a time before videotape machines. If you missed an episode of your favourite show, you had to wait until summer to see it again. And, if there were two good shows on at the same time, well, I don't want to even talk about that.(hat tip: an old <b>Bizarro cartoon</b>) >So I solute George Bush In my best Inigo Montoya voice: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." See, solute is the substance that a liquid solvent dissolves to create a solution. >Until he was seven, he thought that my Atari 2600 was darn cool.
Lesson learned: Stay cool; stay away from seven-year-olds.

>I still have my BETAMAX (1982) with the 12′ long wired remote!
I’m so old I remember a time before videotape machines.
If you missed an episode of your favourite show, you had to wait until summer to see it again.
And, if there were two good shows on at the same time, well, I don’t want to even talk about that.(hat tip: an old Bizarro cartoon)

>So I solute George Bush
In my best Inigo Montoya voice: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
See, solute is the substance that a liquid solvent dissolves to create a solution.

]]> By: Be grateful you non-contributing ZERO! « steve cross loves music and science http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/comment-page-2/#comment-136340 Be grateful you non-contributing ZERO! « steve cross loves music and science Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:18:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/#comment-136340 [...] as though I’m making up for not posting since last wednesday. Anyway- I found this video on Bad Astronomy and had to post it, because this guy is really awesome. He speaks the truth, as Dr. Plait said. We [...] [...] as though I’m making up for not posting since last wednesday. Anyway- I found this video on Bad Astronomy and had to post it, because this guy is really awesome. He speaks the truth, as Dr. Plait said. We [...]

]]> By: Greg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/comment-page-2/#comment-136313 Greg Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:48:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/#comment-136313 Talk about timing, I just saw Louis CK live Saturday night here in DE, and he absolutely killed. One of my friends was wiping tears from his eyes for half the show cause he was laughing so hard. Considering he did around a solid hour and a freaking half or so, preceded by a 20ish minute opening act that was also very funny, it was worth every penny of the 40 bucks for the tickets. I highly recommend going if he comes to your neck of the woods. Talk about timing, I just saw Louis CK live Saturday night here in DE, and he absolutely killed. One of my friends was wiping tears from his eyes for half the show cause he was laughing so hard. Considering he did around a solid hour and a freaking half or so, preceded by a 20ish minute opening act that was also very funny, it was worth every penny of the 40 bucks for the tickets. I highly recommend going if he comes to your neck of the woods.

]]> By: JB of Brisbane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/comment-page-2/#comment-136212 JB of Brisbane Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:02:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/#comment-136212 You think 999 was tough with a decadic dial phone? Try here in Australia, where the emergency number has always been 000! Imaging how long that took to go around. Thank God (or somebody) for tone dialling. You think 999 was tough with a decadic dial phone? Try here in Australia, where the emergency number has always been 000! Imaging how long that took to go around. Thank God (or somebody) for tone dialling.

]]> By: IVAN3MAN http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/comment-page-2/#comment-136171 IVAN3MAN Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:50:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/#comment-136171 Gary Ansorge: <i>"OK! I’m ignorant of that particular slang (POE). Huh?</i> <b>Poe's Law</b> states: <blockquote><b><i>Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.</i></b></blockquote> Click on my name for more information. Gary Ansorge: “OK! I’m ignorant of that particular slang (POE). Huh?

Poe’s Law states:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.

Click on my name for more information.

]]> By: Mick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/comment-page-2/#comment-136165 Mick Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:08:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/11/21/perspective/#comment-136165 But I love the amazing world of technology! I've become much happier the more technology advanced! Life before the internet was far more boring, and life with early modem internet wasn't as fun as current fast internet! I want to keep my amazing technology! In fact I want more! If I'm unhappy at any point its not about technology, I'm very fond of it. I want more! Where's my biochemically vastly extended life and youth? But I love the amazing world of technology! I’ve become much happier the more technology advanced!

Life before the internet was far more boring, and life with early modem internet wasn’t as fun as current fast internet!

I want to keep my amazing technology! In fact I want more!

If I’m unhappy at any point its not about technology, I’m very fond of it. I want more! Where’s my biochemically vastly extended life and youth?

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