Ha, I’m more trustworthy than Wilford Brimley. I’m guessing “The Firm” really cost him.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
A Game the Romans Never Played
Take the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 and make them equal 100 by placing any mathematical symbols you like between them.
Nitrogen Sulphur Fluorine Tungsten
What’s that spell? N-S-F-W ! (NSFW if you have the sound on, that is, but since it’s a song you sort of lose the effect if you mute it)
The Casual Mafia: MoFo Scientist
He’s a MoFo chemist or biologist. Not a lot of MoFo physics. (And no MoFo snakes on the MoFo plane.)
Electron Boy to the Rescue
Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day
Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spiderman called.
Spiderman happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity — he’s Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light.
And Spiderman needed Erik’s help.
Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.
Good thing the evildoers did not know his weakness is a magnetic field, which will limit his orientation options.
The Threat of Global Warming
Senior military leaders announce support for climate bill
America’s billion-dollar-a-day dependence on oil makes us vulnerable to unstable and unfriendly regimes.
Politically, I think this is a good tactic. There are two orthogonal reasons for the US to support clean energy initiatives: global warming and national security. You can use either one, depending on your target audience.