Swans on Tea

Physics, tech and humor. Because science and learning are cool, and life’s too short not to laugh.

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Category: Humor

Oh, My. That’s Certainly Different

30 August, 2008 (05:02) | Humor, Movies, Video, science-y observation | 1 comment

The real message of Toy Story. Warning: this cannot be unwatched.
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via Mine

Fly Me

27 August, 2008 (03:53) | Humor | No comments

21 Funny Airline Announcements

“In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with more than one small [...]

D’oh Say Can You See

27 August, 2008 (03:53) | Cartoon, Humor, TV | No comments

Map of Springfield and an interactive version (the website mentioned on the map leads to a dead-end)
via Neatorama

Low-Brow Humor is Still Humor

25 August, 2008 (03:59) | Humor | No comments

Military humor
via Wanderings

The Truth About Cats & Dogs

24 August, 2008 (06:19) | Humor | No comments

What they write in their diaries (as opposed to what animals talk about)

What’s the Rolls Royce of Chemistry?

23 August, 2008 (05:08) | Business, Humor, Other science | No comments

Disciplines of chemistry as retail chains. The IKEA of Chemistry
Total Synthesis- The Wal-Mart of Chemistry. Okay, before I alienate my tot. syn. friends with this one, let’s think about it. Typically, when modern reactions are developed, they are almost immediately put to task in syntheses of natural products, as proof of their usefulness. People [...]

Teleport, Shmeleport

20 August, 2008 (15:24) | Cartoon, Humor, Journalism, Physics, Satire | No comments

Today’s xkcd is about quantum teleportation, but the problem isn’t that journalists write the “same disappointed story” whenever quantum teleportation is being reported. It’s that they still report that teleportation is somehow connected to moving matter around, whether they’ve been waved off about it or not; the latter would be because they didn’t vet [...]

Just Checking

16 August, 2008 (05:23) | Humor, Sick sick sick, Video | No comments

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Yep. Still funny.

This Would Trigger My Cat-a-Pult

2 August, 2008 (14:41) | Humor, Silly, Video | No comments

I’m allergic to most cats, and especially sensitive to the behavior near the end of the clip.
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via Wanderings

Riposte!

30 July, 2008 (04:09) | Humor, Physics | No comments

“Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha - THRUST!”
Jennifer whips out her $1.25 quarter-staff pen and writes tit for tat, an excellent twist to the physical theories as women
Electrodynamics is your first real boyfriend, and all your friends swear he’s quite the catch: well-educated, ambitious, clean-cut, amusing, great chemistry, plus you love his [...]

Love Her Madly

23 July, 2008 (15:45) | Humor, Physics | 1 comment

Physical Theories as Women
Special relativity is the girl you meet at the dorm party while you’re dating electrodynamics. You make out. It’s not really cheating because it’s not like you call her back. But you have a sneaking suspicion she knows electrodynamics and told her everything.
via Kottke

For Your Next Dinner Party

20 July, 2008 (04:20) | Food, Humor, Science-general | No comments

Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers by Yoni Brenner in The New Yorker
Top thick slices of country bread with fresh goat cheese. Sprinkle with herbs and bake until crusty; serve to everyone but Jeff
OK, don’t read it. See if I care.

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