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People are very on edge today. More short and ill tempered than usual. I was walking along in Target and had that sense of tension and angst all around me, the feeling that everyone in the store would be happier if everyone else in the store was not there. As I was walking along I had the…
we've been kinda low on sunspots for a while as we hit the inter-cycle low;
however, I heard rumours from Iceland that Aurora Borealis had been seen, so I scooted over to Soho to look see
UPDATE: nope, still no sunspots
Couple of nice spot complexes in the upper left.
Haven't checked the polarity…
A song we (Steve, Elwyn, and ??) wrote while at Caltech. I write it down here because last night I struggled with reconstructing all the verses.
The Frosh Arrived (sung to the tune of "Cat's in the Cradle")
the frosh arrived just the other day
they came to Tech in the usual way
but there was work…
Your are typing some text into your FIrefox 2.0 Browser, and you spell something terribly wrong. Like this:
I am so glad I upgreaded to Firefox 2.0, because it has a built in spell checker.
You see the error where you meant to type "upgraded." So you right click on it to pick the correct spelling…
Sonofabitch - the Will Ferrell/Christopher Walken bit got the song stuck in my head so much that I had to go learn it. I spent enough time on it on this perfectly good Saturday morning that I even struggled whether to accept or delete the correction made in the main riff by contributors to this 12-year-old tabulature submission. (After playing it about a hundred times each way, I think that you DO want to have your 3rd finger on the 3rd fret of the D string while picking the F chord part of the riff).
Damn you, Orac. Now my 3-year-old wants to play the cowbell.
hi orac! just want to let you know i'm adding ri to my science blogs category on my permanent blogroll.
keep up the good work!
I was, for most intents and purposes, living under a rock when the "More cowbell" thing came out, and now I think I finally understand. (I wasn't sure who to ask by the time I realized I was totally clueless....) Thank you for that, and thank you for the amusing comic.
I actually have a t-shirt that says, "More Cowbell" with a picture of the...I hesitate to say "instrument". That SNL clip is so damn funny I can't even stand it. Thanks for giving me a laugh on a rather crappy Sunday.
The fact that the "more cowbell" meme rides on the endemic virulence of "Don't Fear the Reaper" has made it powerfully infective.
Thank you, Orac. I had not been infected, and am already a grateful carrier, who promptly passed it on to my son and husband.
Long Live Gene Frenkle, who only in "death" became real to us.