December 2011
Does the calendar really have to be so confusing? →
sciencecenter:
The dates fall on different days of the week every year. The months all have different numbers of days, with no rhyme or reason. There’s plenty of inefficiency built into the modern calendar. But according to Johns Hopkins astronomer Richard Conn Henry, that doesn’t have to be the case. According to his proposed calendar, eight of the months would have 30 days, with 31 days every...
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Awesome rejected Star Wars products...
laurenmoran:
cestsecouer:
Tell me you wouldn’t buy every fucking one of these.
i cant even give them all to me
Who WOULDN’T buy these? Especially that tauntaun suit. That’d be awesome.
whisperoftheshot:
unexpectedtech:
To build a holodeck: an exclusive look at Microsoft’s Edison lab
Microsoft is doing some crazy future stuff. They have screens that work like cameras!
Edit: Source -The Verge, it was not properly sourced.
The sad thing is that in spite of Microsoft’s general innovative work at Edison they’ll completely botch the consumer electronics...
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Death is a primitive concept; I prefer to think of them as battling evil—in...
– Grig, The Last Starfighter. One of the greatest movies of the ’80s.
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Merry Christmas!!!
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So there's a sale on EA games for the iPhone/iPad...
$0.99 per game. I picked up:
Fifa 2012
Command & Conquer
Monopoly
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Which was a nice way to spend my morning.
Kristen Bell Says Don't Give Up Hope On A... →
huffingtonpost:
huffposttv:
I told Kristen Bell I would be remiss if I didn’t talk about “Veronica Mars.”
“Do it, do it!,” she chanted.
Her message to the fans: “Don’t lose hope,” Bell said. “That’s all I can say. Do not lose hope.”
More on the “Veronica Mars” movie here.
This morning at the news meeting, Chris from TV kept chanting, “Kristen Bell! Kristen Bell!” Yes, he’s very excited...
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But as a professor I spoke to put it, a law school could literally burn a huge...
– David Segal, on the economics of law school. By comparison, it seems WCL burns through cash on a catering budget…
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The Dark Knight Rises Trailer is up on Apple
dcwomenkickingass:
Here you go, all legal and everything,
AWESOME!
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Jeeez. It's only Sunday and I have one of my...
Typical Robbins, always overachieving on being the best prof at WCL.
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And now...I'm done.
I’m going to take a shower. BTW: fun fact: I wrote ~4,000 words this morning.
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I have approximately a page left of my essay.
SO CLOSE.
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Joe Simon is dead. Christopher Hitchens is dead.
The world is just a slight bit less interesting without them.
The problem with being a double major from UCLA
Is that both departments hit you up for donations. Also whoever thought Jeff Lewis would make a good polisci chair is insane. He was a good prof but I can’t see him being organized.
The Kindle Monologues: Barnes & Noble can suck my... →
slygrinsandsnickers:
I just. I can’t even. There are no words.
I walk into Barnes & Noble tonight to buy my father a fucking book for Christmas, and what do I walk into? A FUCKING NOOK CENTER. It’s like a huge-ass square area that people can test out the nook in.
For those of you who…
Being a luddite is kind of weird on the tumblr platform. For one, it’s on the internet...
elvis-shrugged asked: Yeah, Starship Troopers is the bomb. Robocop pretty much trounces it, though, IMO. I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!
PHENOMENAUT AEROSPACE: Could Netflix Bring Firefly... →
dpjoh2:
bernardin:
Ever since Joss Whedon’s space western was canceled back in 2003, its fans — at first, a relatively small contingent, but as time and DVD sales grew, so did the ranks swell — have wondered what could possibly rescue it from the tightly clenched jaws of death. And until now, nothing could….
A lot of speculation here, and I wouldn’t quite argue that AD’s return is...
How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich, by the... →
fuckyeahlost:
Jack 1. Gather ingredients 2. Point gun at ingredients and shout “HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?” 3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients 4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly Kate 1. Make separate sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly 2. Take a bite of the peanut butter sandwich, declaring...