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Apparently, over the pond, adults cannot explain why the sky is blue. Now being someone who has studied this stuff in the past, a found it’s rather more complicated than the simple discussion most often brought up (scattering). Though, it does get to the heart of the reason, so it’s close enough.

I don’t know that mean people here (this side of the pond) who could answer that question either.

So it appears, somewhere, I got this move all wrong. It’s more like an artsy independent film. I totally missed that. You know like other movies that were artsy independent.

And by August of next year we’ll withdraw every single one of our troops, leaving behind only memories and 50,000 troops.

Like Mr. Colbert, I thought the way was over. Apparently I was wrong. Though why, if the war is over, would he go over to Iraq is beyond me.

Second best idea they ever had.

Mr. Dijkstra, you are my hero. CS people know him because of his Narcissistic tendencies, most notably naming an algorithm after himself. I mean, who names anything after themselves?

Well, to the point, Dijkstra had the EWD manuscripts, and in one, EWD 1036, he notes something I have been wondering about myself for years…

We are hardly less primitive: why do we persist here in answering the telephone with the most unhelpful “hello” instead of our name?

All hail [almost] [vice] president-elect Palin. She’s the real winner here. He and the moozen she’s about the field dress.

If you post a comment and it doesn’t appear – it’s caught in moderation. However there’s about 700-zillion comments in moderation at any given time (all spam) so you might need to contact someone important enough to fix that if you want your comment to appear.

Yay for comment spammers?

sloth: 10^(220-10) is how many pieces of pizza I’m going to eat at lunch
sloth: roughly
sage: roughly… that’s a shit ton of pizza
sloth: a shit ton is 10^150
sloth: so it’s actually more than that
sage: that’s almost a shit-ton of shit-tons
sage: shitshit-ton?
sage: ohshit-ton?
sage: nawh, an ohshit-ton is anything that falls on you
sloth: ohshit-ton is a measurement of compressive force
sloth: shitshit-ton would be explosive force
sloth: holyshit-ton is a measurement of surprise
sage: in number of “oh shits”?
sloth: yeah

So there’s some rumors out there about maybe a Battletoads movie. There’s even a trailer.

Let’s talk about some of these things.

• Clips used in the trailer are from other trailer (TMNT , Watchmen, maybe others).
• The voice over in the trailer doesn’t sound like it’s from a good studio. Maybe someone’s basement?
• The domain name is registered by Domains By Proxy, Universal doesn’t do that.
• The movie is supposed to come out in one (1) month and we haven’t heard anything about it.
• IMDB is unaware of the existence of any Battletoads movie, and IMDB is god.
• How the hell is L. Ron Hubbard supposed to produce this movie?
• Will Smith and Sammy L. J. I get, where did Eddie Murphy come from?
• Longcat Pictures and Wirah Productions don’t even exist. I bet Wirah is the handle of whoever made this.

However, it has one redeeming factor. It’s on the intertubes, thus it has to be true. I’m pumped.