Month: December 2010

Festivus

Direct and repressed people, Hold your reprieves– Get started on your meatloaf, It’s Festivus Eve! What’s that, you say? You don’t know Festivus, also known as Festivus for the Rest of Us?

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Star of Wonder

Originally posted December 22nd, 2010. To throw another element into this discussion, the original Greek in the Bible indicates that Jesus was a toddler when the Magi visited, not a newborn, which may further complicate our calendar. Last night’s lunar eclipse was spectacular. It was difficult to find a good webcam view of it, but some […]

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Angels and Autobots

“We are not alone, are we?” In the trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon, mission control asks astronaut Neil Armstrong this question as he and Buzz Aldrin investigate a crashed spacecraft on the lunar surface. The camera dives into the wreckage where we see an old Autobot lying lifeless—until one of his eyes lights […]

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Lunar Eclipse Tonight

Tonight, Monday 12/20, is a full lunar eclipse. It’s the first time one has occured on the winter solstice in nearly 400 years, and the moon will be at its highest point in the sky in about 1600 years. Because we’re having rain in the Seattle area today, we might all wind up watching the […]

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Lego Antikythera

This is just too cool not to reblog. In 1901, the world’s first known analog computer was recovered from a Greek shipwreck. It wasn’t until 2006 that scientists realized what it actually was. I remember the shock waves that epiphany created.

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Police Mommy Dot

Police Mommy Dot (dunt dunt, dunt dunt) Police Mommy Dot (dunt dunt, dunt dunt) Police Mommy Dot Oh a sparrow anyo ee a fleecy dod (Doot, do do do doot) Long before Seattle radio personality Bob Rivers recorded his questionable remake of Feliz Navidad (Police Stop My Car), my brothers and I were dancing around […]

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Food for Thought

This falls into the “don’t try this at home” category. I have nothing personal against Burger King, and used to love the gold cardboard crowns you could get there. But the Burger King falls into the category of characters I do not want to meet in a dark alley, and it looks like I’m not […]

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Candlelight

Happy Hanukkah! It is day six of Hanukkah, and I just learned of this great video by a group of students from Yeshiva University called The Maccabeats. According to an AP story on KOMO News:

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