Inverse Paradigm

The initial euphoric furor over the new MS music player Zune. One has gone looney zunes when getting excited over the advertising and rushing out to purchase it, seeing that most of the bugs have yet to be worked out.

A couple of friends go over to one of the big chain electronics stores and on the big screen TV a Zune ad is playing. They then see another customer staring at the ad.

“Uh oh.”
“What?”
“Look at him.”
“Oh man. He’s gonna go for it. He’s Looney Zunes. He’s gonna plunk down and buy one.”

The Link

Someone just sneezed an annoyingly loud sneeze and one of my other coworkers said, “Bless you, and the horse you rode in on.”

I was listening to Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band.

UT Austin: 7
Texas A&M: 12

Hopefully we can squeeze a bowl game out of this season but there will be no national championship game against Ohio State this year.

Well maybe if we hack the internet, reprogram the BCS computers and modify the memories of thousands of people…

Sorry, I was reading the new Pinky and The Brain script…

NOBODY LIVES HERE BY THAT NAME are you finding it difficult to GET?

I’ve posed about this before. Since July I have been renting a phone number from AT&T which used to be a residential number. Well I got another call from some student loan outfit asking for the husband.

Guy on the other end: Is Kyle there?

Me: I told your company two days ago that they no longer have this phone number.

Guy on the other end: They no longer have this phone number?

Me: That’s correct.

Guy on the other end: Okay, sir. I’ll remove this number from my list and I won’t bother you again.

Me: Thank you.

I just have to wonder if removing the number from his list means it disappears from everyone’s lists.

A student at the University of Arizona has come up with a clever idea: Using orbital mirrors to heat the surface temp. of Mars to something habitable for humans. This would ostensibly allow astronaut researchers to live and work without having to endure such heavy insulation as would be required otherwise.

The problem is that once you do that, you are not on Mars anymore. You basically turn a portion of Mars into an Earth Prime. You are introducing the beginnings of an Earthlike ecology to an area of Mars. The project would change the ecology into something unnatural for the planet. All research data from that region would have to be viewed differently. Anything we plant would certainly not grow on the Martian surface as it is today.

An Earth habitat would be useful to allow multiple expeditions a livable place without constantly having to build shelters every time.

So in 2008 we can start siphoning money out of the Iraq budget to pay for it.

Across the Bridge

Originally uploaded by ShutterCat7.

This is a shot of downtown from across the Congress Avenue Bridge. That object on the lamp post is a Christmas Tuba. The city of Austin has always put up these XMas light musical instruments during this season along Congress avenue.

IGNONOMICON

So we can all have an atlas to navigate the blind faith and stupidity in our world.