Bullet Point 1: I agree, and I wanted to do that to you but for some reason we did not hook up.
Bullet Point 2: It is good to match up the flesh to the sound, it changes everything!
Bullet Point 3: I'm sure you are right about the explosion. Brilliant, actually (imagine that said in an Oxford accent).
Bullet Point 4: I saw this as well, and some of us are now talking about a "blog book tour" idea as an example of that. I hope you are interested.
Bullet Point 5: Sorry about your brain breaking, but it will get better (imagine that in a Monty Python accent).
Bullet Point 6: True.
Bullet Point 7: Reminds me of Levi Straus's comments about using a wire recorder while working in the Amazon.
Bullet Point 8: Meh.
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There were a couple of things that bothered me about the MythBusters' myth where they fired bullets in the air. The myth was that a bullet fired in the air could kill you. The first problem is that it is not a myth.
There's a question that gets posed toward the beginning of intro physics classes to gauge the students' understanding of acceleration. If you fire a bullet horizontally while at the same instant dropping a bullet from the same height, which hits the ground first?
If you didn't catch the latest MythBusters (yeah! new episodes), they did something straight from the physics textbooks. Just about every text has this example of shooting a bullet horizontally and dropping a bullet from the same height.
"I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman." ― Cherie Priest
Wish I was there.
"...for some reason..."
Hah! There were just "too many" cool people to be able to meet and talk to all of them. I was looking for a chance to chat a little with Isis all weekend and was thwarted. I can, however, confirm that her shoes really are all that.
I did not even see Isis. I also missed a chance to talk to Sandra Porter, Chris Rowan and Anne Jefferson all of whom I kept thinking "Oh, I'll catch up in a second" but never did.
But watching Henry Gee and PZ Myers hugging made up for some of that.
Actually, I can pretty much guarantee you saw Isis. If she doesn't blog all the individual sessions herself, I'll tell you privately where.