Weird Al is back and better than ever. This man never fails to disappoint and always stays current. Open up a different browser with lyrics and watch the video.
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Monthly Archive for September, 2006
My junior year of college at UCSB. I was getting ready for work along with my roomate Gabe in unit I-4 of Chimney Sweeps in Isla Vista, CA. We were up early because we kept much more ambitious hours back then. We only had one small TV downstairs and chatter around the apartment started out like guys telling each other to “come check out this out, dude” – like when you see a high speed chase.
At first there was confusion. Was it just a huge fire on the top floor of one of the Twin Towers? The thought of an airplane crashing into it never occured to us. Then there was grainy video of a plane. I left, to continue getting ready, thinking nothing of it. Then I heard a scream from downstairs. A plane just went into the second tower! Unbelievable! We went to work and the mood was eerie. There was a TV above the ping pong table and it was tuned into CNN. Usually, it’s off. We were told we could go home if we wanted. I didn’t know what to think.
So where were you when the world stopped turning?
Joe and I on McMenemy Trail. Notice the thick fog in the background. The sun had just set minutes prior.
We all know how smart dolphins are but studies being done worldwide shows the extent of their intelligence may breach previously understood bounds.
Kelly has taken this task one step further. When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give to the trainer. After a fish reward, she goes back down, tears off another piece of paper, gets another fish, and so on. This behaviour is interesting because it shows that Kelly has a sense of the future and delays gratification. She has realised that a big piece of paper gets the same reward as a small piece and so delivers only small pieces to keep the extra food coming. She has, in effect, trained the humans.
Recently, Lockheed Martin won a huge contract, to develop and build NASA’s next generation manned-spacecraft. This shocked everyone since Lockheed doesn’t have much experience in space. So how did they pull it off. An article at Howstufworks offers a few explanations, including the following:
Another possible factor in the mix is Lockheed’s tremendous presence in Washington, D.C. — its headquarters are in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside D.C. An Associated Press report on NASA’s decision calls Lockheed Martin an “old Washington firm.” It has former Pentagon and NASA employees on its payroll, and 80 percent of its business is with the U.S. Department of Defense. This angle seems to call upon the Washington “old boys network” as at least part of the reason for the decision. Lockheed Martin’s Orion office (the company has already been assisting NASA with aspects of the Orion project) also shares a building with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas.
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