Thursday miscellanea #105

  • The first truly telling SEC Saturday approaches.  I’ve been saying South Carolina might be the scariest game on Alabama’s schedule, and they’re facing their stiffest test in Auburn.  I’ve also been saying Arkansas has done nothing to deserve its ranking, and they’ll get a shot at the Tide to prove me wrong.  Let it roll!
  • Go check out Hyperbole and a Half (hat tip, Saintseester).  She has a gigantic audience and doesn’t need me shilling for her, but she has that audience because she’s hilarious.
  • Been in a big Fountains of Wayne mood lately.  Sometimes their musical shtick hits me as corny; other times it’s exactly what I want to hear.  Went looking for information on a new album yesterday and was sad to discover that they’re currently unsigned.
  • Jupiter is showing off right now.  Look for it to rise in the east sometime after sunset.  It’s directly overhead at my house shortly after midnight.
  • Want to read on the ceiling?  Have a look at the home library of the future, as envisioned in 1959.
  • I’m about two-thirds of the way through Halo Reach.  Starting on Heroic difficulty was the right call.  As it’s a prequel I already know how the story ends (badly), so there’s no narrative-driven pressure to get to the end.  Have to savor it.  It’s a long time to Gears of War 3 and Bioshock Infinite.
  • I wrote once about expecting the divorce rate to gradually decline as more children of divorce come of age.  Sadly, it hasn’t happened that way statistically, but here is an encouraging piece that echoes something else I wrote recently:  Divorce is not an option.

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5 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #105”

  1. My sister pointed me to Hyperbole and a Half 2 days ago. I read the post about having her tooth excavated and wanting to go to a birthday party afterward. OMG. I choked on my sandwich I was laughing so hard. I’m still laughing about that one. That girl is TALENTED!

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  2. There’s a certain x-factor to that kind of talent. I have what I think is a good, funny idea for that kind of comedy once in a while. But the concept of having those ideas often enough to sustain an entire (rigorously updated) blog of it blows my mind.

    I can definitely relate to her lamenting the ideas she’s lost because she didn’t have a way to write them down. I’ve thought of things that I’ve been genuinely and sustainedly excited about, only to try to remember them later and find only futility. I need a pen and paper everywhere I ever am.

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  3. This past Thursday, Jupiter was in opposition and closer to the earth than it has been for a 47 years and will be for another 12 years. Of course it is only a “little bit” closer so no, unlike Mars (snicker, snicker), it won’t be the size of a full moon. Speaking of that, the moon was almost full on Thursday too.

    I had to check it out through my telescope. The NEB was clearly visible and the GRS was kind of visible. The SEB went missing a few months ago. The four largest moons are almost always visible. You should check it out tonight through a decent pair of binoculars. You should be able to see it as a disk and possibly even a moon or two. Uranus is also right near Jupiter right now. It shows up as a faint bluish disk but you need more than binoculars to see it as more than a point of light. Did you know you can see Andromeda (yes, the galaxy 2.5 MILLION light years away) through binoculars?

    You need to bring the boys over one night and check out some celestial cool stuff though our telescopes. In about a month, the Orion Nebula will be back out and the double cluster will make anybody go “WOW.”

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  4. The ‘tooth extraction’ had me grinning, but the ‘social entrapment’ piece had me really laughing because she captured those situations perfectly! Especially the grocery store bit.

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