Apparently there’s a hostage situation at the Discovery channel’s headquarters. He’s demanding an end to the frivolous TV programs it runs and more real science shows. Shows that concentrate on problems that the world faces, overcrowding, evolution, Darwin, etc. He is also demanding an end to the programs about war.
Well I can understand where he’s coming from. I’d love the Discovery channel (one of the few channels that I will actually watch) to have more real science programing. There are a bunch of shows that I would cut down with a vengeance if they gave me control of its’ programing but as a whole the network isn’t that bad. I think the History channel as a whole has fallen a lot further down. TLC is a cesspool that has completely been cut off by me. The Science channel seems to be the best at the moment. Of course I don’t watch a lot of TV so my opinions here are mainly based on the few times I switch the TV on and flip through the channels.
I do not agree with his methods. Way to go jackass, now you’re just like all the crazy-ass religious nuts with guns. We do not need asshole, gun waving, nut jobs in the skeptic/scientific/atheist/agnostic/whatever groups thank you very much. Waving a gun around does not get your demands met. Also American public is mostly stupid and a good chunk are pretty anti science. They will not be watching these channels much, and if you put on real science then even less would. I am Ok with frivolous programs up to a point if it brings them more viewers. The History channel has pissed me off lately as every other week it seems to be adding a new reality show that has little to nothing to do with history. Please stop and fire the person adding these shows.
Looks like the guy just got shot by the cops. Gee didn’t see that one coming.
Update: Oh and I finally got a look at his demands. The website wasn’t working when I first hear about this. Yeah this guy was bat shit insane. He pretty much wanted everyone to stop having babies. Like seriously, not one more baby at all period, until the problems of the world are fixed. He also thought that a TV channel could bring about the massive culture, economic, and environment changes that would be required to meet his requirements. Here’s a copy of his demands after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Ok holy crap I would not like to be in a room with this doll at night when it goes off and I would hate to be anywhere near it when it’s batteries start to die and it slows the laughter way down.
The universe is way too big a place to have only one little speck filled with life. Even if we are some sort of cosmic accident then the universe is still vast enough that the same accident should have happened elsewhere as well. I just can’t believe that our little solar system is unique enough that there isn’t another star with a similar setup. That’s also assuming that the conditions have to be exactly like ours in order to produce life. I’ve read a lot of articles about how life might be so different from us that we fail to realize that’s it’s actually alive.
My my, I’ve really been neglecting this haven’t I?
I’ll just ramble aimlessly for a bit then and call it an update I suppose.
If you had told me a few years ago that I would meet the most amazing chick I’ve ever met at a gay bar while they were throwing a “goth prom” and that I’d successfully get said girl’s number, I’d have stared at you blankly cause I wouldn’t know what to say. If you were to continue and say that I would call this girl and arrange the best date I’ve ever been on, one were even in the beginning we were talking so much that the waitress had to come back several times to ask us if we were ready because we forgot to look at the menu, one that after a dinner and a movie we went to a bar to talk and talked almost non stop for 4 or 5 hours, finding out that we have so much in common it would be creepy if it weren’t so awesome, I would have raised an eyebrow, told you were crazy, and to stop using such long run on sentences.
Well all that did happen and Christy and I had our one month this Monday. Things are great and I can’t be happier. She’s a weirdo like me and it’s great having a smart girlfriend who can use words I don’t know. Of course I might have to watch my writing here a little bit more since she’s going for her PhD in English.
My heat tolerance is now pushing up to the extreme. Habanero peppers are no longer cutting it. Now that I have found a couple sources of the insanely hot Ghost chili pepper I can create hot sauces and dishes that will burn your ear hair out. Last week’s spicyaki wings were epic in every sense of the word. Spicyaki is probably my signature dish at the moment and I’m Ok with that.
If you’re wondering what Spicyaki is, it’s simply really hot, homemade teriyaki sauce which we usually put on wings. It’s been getting hotter and hotter every time I make it. I made a “mild” batch for some friends that were coming over and couldn’t take heat. Well it turned out to be pretty spicy anyway. Darn my inability to feel heat, but wait, no don’t darn it at all. It made my girlfriend a believer in hot food. I have a theory that everyone could like spicy food if two condition are met. One, it has to be tasty. Which means the chef has to actually eat it and like it, none of this commerical let’s just make it as hot as possible without any regard for the taste. Two, you have to work people up to it. You can’t just be like this will melt your eyeballs out here you go right out the gate. You also can’t work them up too slow either. You have to challenge them a little. You need to get the endorphins rushing a little. I nailed both of those on the head for my girlfriend who could not stop eating them even though she couldn’t feel her face anymore. How awesome is that. I’m proud.
Pennsic. Pennsic. Pennsic. Well what can I say, too much for this little post. I have a ton of pictures from it and once I have them processed I’ll put them up here as well as a few on facebook too. Pennsic definitely gets it’s own post.
I found a site that has a bunch of different fruit that has been run through an MRI machine. Obviously they let people like me near MRIs because the first thing I would do with it is run everything I could find through it. Starting with the squishy things that wouldn’t break the machine first and then moving up to the large metal objects that would utter destroy and explode the machine when I got totally bored with it. I think that would take a long time to get bored with it so I’m sure I would get the value out of it. Well let me give you the link so you can go check out the insides of fruit without bashing/slicing/ripping/or otherwise mutilating it.
Ok so I used to watch shining time station and I loved it as a kid. Trains are cool. Well, now a days I’m not so into trains. Not like Sheldon or anything but I like traveling by them and wish there was a better train system around here. I would actually use it. SO when I saw this on the Failblog.
I instantly decided that I must have one. Please if you need to get me a present for any reason please buy me one of these. This is not a fail it is an epic win. Seriously if you buy me this I will love you forever.
So I watched Kick-Ass last night. I have to say that I did enjoy it. The main reason why is the same as everyone else reason for liking it, Hit-Girl. Honestly she made the movie. Nothing else came close to her. She definitely kicked ass. The movie wasn’t great but just awesome. It didn’t try to be anything more than what it was a crazy take on superheros with a lot of violence and blood. It pulled it off well enough. There were, like it all movies, parts that strained my ability to suspend my disbelief. But hell the news almost triggers a gag of my suspension of disbelief. Usually when they are reporting on something/someone so stupid I can scarcely believe it/them exists.
