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Category Archives: Wee Bit O’ Humour
My Pepsi Boycott
Pepsi announced that they were going to advertise in the evening/early-morning sky with cubesats that have reflective mylar sails. They will spell out, like constellations, the image Pepsi wants us to see. This is a horrible idea that will be … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged advertising, advertising gone amok, advertising isn't vital - science is, amateur astronomy, astronomy, boycott, could get India to blow up the advertising, cubesats, economics, Eiffel tower 100th anniversary, France, free publicity for Pepsi, I still won't use McCafe, Messier objects, mylar sails, Pepsi, Pepsi backed out, precious views ruined, red light flashlight, reflecting the sun, space debris, space eyesores
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Hobbes the Robin
Early on in his schooling Hobbes the Robin learned the expression “the early bird gets the worm”. While he didn’t enjoy learning that he would have to get up earlier to see if this expression was true or not, still … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Science, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged alarm, birds, early bird gets the worm, frozen ground means worms can't get to the surface, Hobbes the Robin, is there another way that the early bird gets the worm?, solid snow, statistics, weather, what if the early robin headed north 3 weeks earlier?, worm propaganda, worm torture, wormholes, worms
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Aliens are Humans? – Wait a Minute!
I’ve heard it said that all aliens in science fiction are really humans in disguise for getting the author’s point across about humanity. Apparently the prime directive about writing science fiction is that it must be human centred even when … Continue reading
Posted in Stage and Screen, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged 5 basic settings, aliens, aliens aren't just funny looking humans, aliens in Star Trek are usually humans with putty, alternate reality, animals, anything hard with gravity, are all planets really Earth?, compress my 6 kinds of character to one kind, compress the 5 settings into one, dystopias, free fall, godlike creatures, humans, humans and Vulcans almost certainly can't breed with each other, lesser magical creatures, robots or computers, science fiction, simpler universe but much more boring, Spock, Star Trek, the divine(heaven or hell), ustopias, Vulcans, weird and exotic settings (other astronomical objects
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What Can I Say About Reverse Skating?
To my mind, my namesake, science fiction writer Larry Niven, is the king of science fiction ideas. Not only are some of his ideas great, but he has a large amount of them. In the short story, “What Can You … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour, Writing
Tagged AI robots, dangerous business, double the blade tracks, humans are too fragile, ideas, interesting conjectures, Larry Niven, new sports injury that doesn't displace humans, no slippage might injure the suit of armour skater, perpendicular blades so you can stop, reverse skating, science fiction, strap blocks of ice to feet and skate on blade tracks, suit of armor, suit of ice, suit of segmented ice, the king of science fiction ideas, turns and jumps, What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manholes?
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The Prison
Let’s follow the academic career of a typical scientist to see just exactly where they are coming from. First up is elementary school where the scientist-to-be has a slightly better math aptitude. It is also possible for her to be … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Social Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged academic carreer of a scientist, electives, elementary school, high school, junior high, logic aptitude, Master's, math aptitude, Ph.D., prerequisites, prison of own making, professor, research grants, science is curosity driven, scientist, stockholm syndrome, tenure, University
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TOP isn’t Top Anymore
Twenty-One Pilots is of course TOP and with their new album Trench they are no longer the top rock band to watch. Do not be fooled by Stressed Out from the last album and Heathens from the soundtrack for Suicide … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged bassist, Blurryface, Coldplay, Goner, Heathens, Imagine Dragons, Jumpsuit, keyboardist, singer, songwriter, Stressed Out, TOP, Trench, Twenty One Pilots, Tyler Joseph, ukeleleer, Vessel, YouTube
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What Do You Call Someone Who Hangs Around Musicians?
The real answer is Mike. The eighties answer to this – (the one that everyone knew) was a drummer. Everybody knew that drummers were on the way out in the eighties. Drum machines were the oft pointed at pieces of … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Bass, bowed string instruments need a section for chords, chord enabled instrument, Coldplay, DJ equipment, drum machines, drummers, drummers were on their way out, drums, drums now thrive, eighties, guitar synthesizers, guitarists, guitars, guitars on the outs, Imagine Dragons, keyboards, programming, randomness in beats to sound like a live drummer, super accurate beats, Twenty One Pilots, ukelele, White Stripes, wind instruments need a section for chords
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Eat $#!+ and Live
No this title is not an example of a sentence that is totally changed with the insertion of commas. It is uncomfortable because it needs to be. For a very long time scientists have dreamt of resurrecting the woolly mammoths. … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, History, Science, Science Fiction, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged arctic, artificial womb, baby elephants must eat their mother's scat, ban ivory, cloning, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, elephants are being killed faster than they can reproduce, gene splicing, gut flora, Ice Age Park, Indian elephant, ivory, mammoths, Panda eats shoots and leaves, petitions to save elephants, swear words, woolly mammoths
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Lauding Economics but Dissing the Hard Sciences is a Recipe for Disaster
Politicians mostly hang on every word of an economist. They give that art its highest praise (as evidenced in practice) while trying to cherry pick the hard sciences of physics, chemistry and biology. Briefly I had a computer alias as … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Politics, Science, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged 99.9% of affected scientists believe in global warming, biology, chemistry, cherry picking, collusion, competition, economics is an art, economics may be a discipline but that doesn't make it a science, economists, economystic, global warming, hard, hard sciences, Loblaw Companies Ltd., market, ogilopolies and monopolies, physics, politicians, soft, supply and demand
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Ranking the Power of Certain Nations
By now everyone has heard about the way Donald Trump practically groveled to Vladimir Putin. But it was obvious this was going to happen. After all, Trump might owe his election win to Russian meddling in the American election. Then, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Wee Bit O' Humour
Tagged Azerbaijan, blowing off meetings shows more disrespect, first among equals, G7, Georgia, NATO, Putin, Queen Elizabeth II, Romania, Russia, Showing up late shows disrespect, the commonwealth, Trump, Ukraine, United States, USA is first in crowning Russia as top dog
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