Tag: "Random Geekery"
Wow. Just…Wow.
This video is impressive and just a little bit scary. It is real footage of a test-firing of an actual nuclear artillery shell we once had in our arsenal. The shell had a nominal yield of 14-kiloton punch which put it on par with the bomb we dropped on Hiroshima. By comparison, Little Boy (the [...]
Same Old Interrupting Cow. Different Joke
What do you get when you combine my favorite knock-knock joke with rampant geekery? Pure, unadulterated funny. That same joke works if your substitute “coefficient of friction” with “lost continent” or “Buddhist unasking of a question”. So you can tailor it to your audience, whether it’s a Buddhist monk or Stephen Hawking. Wait…that’s not funny.
Phyllostachys Edulis Delenda Est*
Like Moe Lane, I’m no fan of bamboo. Unlike Moe Lane, I’ve never gone all Cato the Elder on it, but I can definitely understand why he would. Bamboo is nasty. When I was a teenager, I spent one long, hot, scratchy, suffocating summer day in a canebreak of bamboo, cutting down stalks to use [...]
Launch All Bailout…For Great Justice!
Here’s another reason to support Chuck DeVore as he tries to unseat ultra-liberal Barbara Boxer in California: Not only is he a veteran, an author, and a conservative, he’s also a geek.
That’s What You Said