tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post6330411793244015787..comments2023-03-29T07:35:09.085-04:00Comments on Distant Voices, Vibrating Electrons: Details 1N__Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-6692557618478173862010-04-11T23:43:02.819-04:002010-04-11T23:43:02.819-04:00my freshman physics teacher didn't look AT ALL...my freshman physics teacher didn't look AT ALL like Kari Byron, so elements of the class have had less - heh- staying power.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-39117646277357729722010-04-11T18:48:08.243-04:002010-04-11T18:48:08.243-04:00Mythbusters pretty effectively debunked that one.
...<i>Mythbusters pretty effectively debunked that one.</i><br /><br />Anyone who remembers freshman physics can debunk it for themselves.N__Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-54601080756739321462010-04-11T17:42:06.483-04:002010-04-11T17:42:06.483-04:00wait, I have a blog?wait, I have a blog?zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-89569317054450386842010-04-11T17:41:44.755-04:002010-04-11T17:41:44.755-04:00A bus heads off an unfinished highway ramp at 80mp...<i>A bus heads off an unfinished highway ramp at 80mph and ends on a higher ramp? Bullshit.</i><br /><br /><br />Mythbusters pretty effectively debunked that one.<br /><br />Smut, my blog is already totally dedicated to inertia, and THAT takes all my time. Now you want me to start ANOTHER one? You're mad!zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-65580333144732082382010-04-11T06:05:02.543-04:002010-04-11T06:05:02.543-04:00It will be called "The Willing Suspension of ...<i>It will be called "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief".</i><br /><br />It depends what impossibility I'm expected to accept. Red matter causes time travel? Sure. There's no red matter, so it can do whatever the writer wants. A bus heads off an unfinished highway ramp at 80mph and ends on a <b>higher</b> ramp? Bullshit.<br /><br />The producers of fiction owe us plausible impossibilities for us to pretend to believe.N__Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-2577762187401854832010-04-11T05:56:55.423-04:002010-04-11T05:56:55.423-04:00AND SETS OFF EVERY HEAD ON THE FLOOR!!! GAHHHHH!
...<i>AND SETS OFF EVERY HEAD ON THE FLOOR!!! GAHHHHH!</i><br /><br />Well you have just spoiled my appreciation of Jasper Fforde's novel "The Fourth Bear", in which Detective-Inspector Jack Spratt uses exactly that trick to defeat The Quangle-Qangle's evil baked product golem, Gingerbreadman. No longer can I suspend my disbelief.* I hope you're satisfied. <br /><br /><i>Some people</i> if they wanted to launch a crusade about design- & architecture-themed bloopers in movies, would devote their own blogs to the purpose, but evidently not ZRM.<br /><br />* When I die, I have arranged for all my money to go into a special foundation with the worthy cause of funding bungee jumps for atheists.<br /><br />It will be called "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief".Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-62524528759375805692010-04-09T23:49:22.585-04:002010-04-09T23:49:22.585-04:00Also, free falling elevators.
The cable that bre...<i>Also, free falling elevators. </i><br /><br />The cable that breaks a little (a few strands snapping) then breaks a little more, then breaks a little more, until you gave one strand holding the load that was enough to make the whole cable start to fail.<br /><br />DIEDIEDIEDIEN__Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18303668729094014730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-4622236904006366052010-04-09T23:42:45.971-04:002010-04-09T23:42:45.971-04:00wanna know what gets me?
When Keanu Reeves or Bru...wanna know what gets me?<br /><br />When Keanu Reeves or Bruce Willis or some other bullet headed action movie star places a lighter near a single sprinkler head AND SETS OFF EVERY HEAD ON THE FLOOR!!! GAHHHHH!<br /><br />Also, free falling elevators. Can't happen. even with a murderous AI building computer.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-26017575510113515862010-04-09T18:18:13.147-04:002010-04-09T18:18:13.147-04:00(a village named after an edible fungus)
The near...<i>(a village named after an edible fungus)</i><br /><br />The nearby township of Stinkhorn really should think of changing its name.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-41815901978370039122010-04-07T15:47:06.480-04:002010-04-07T15:47:06.480-04:00Good eye! A few years back, the movie Riding in C...Good eye! A few years back, the movie <i>Riding in Cars with Boys</i> was filmed in Tuckahoe (a village named after an edible fungus), and the village was transformed-old parking meters, they even changed the style of certain curbs. Since it was along one of my favorite bike routes, I would often stop by just to check out the <i>mise en scene</i>- if you know what I mean, and I think you do.<br /><br />Never did bother to see the movie.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4474265600560884145.post-66403164507631423592010-04-07T00:39:18.381-04:002010-04-07T00:39:18.381-04:00I remember the touch-sensitive buttons in my grand...I remember the touch-sensitive buttons in my grandma's old folks home. It was 16 stories and some of the residents couldn't see so good, so anything their hands went near lit up.<br /><br />Those were long rides.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.com