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F***ing magnets, how do they work?

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

One curse of having a brain comprised of 20ish billion neurons (and 7,000 times as many synaptic connections*) is that music can get seriously stuck in it.

Awful, terrible, mind-numbingly stupid music.

Case in point, the Insane Clown Posse’s tune “Miracles”:

If you haven’t listened to this addictive form of brain corrosion closely, here’s a sample of the lyrics:

The sun and the moon, and even Mars
The Milky Way and fucking shooting stars
UFOs, a river flows
Plant a little seed and nature grows
Niagara falls and the pyramids
Everything you believed in as kids
Fucking rainbows after it rains
There’s enough miracles here to blow your brains

It gets better. Better being worse, of course.

About halfway through, ICP tells its juggalo followers that magnets are magical and all scientists are liars: (more…)

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Honoring Stephen Hawking at the World Science Festival

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

I feel like the luckiest nerd boy in the world.

Wednesday night Kendra and I got to see Stephen Hawking — theoretical physicist extraordinaire — be honored at the World Science Festival* by a star-studded (hyuck hyuck) ensemble at Lincoln Center.

I’ll try to make this quick, because I need to blog about some black holes and holographic worlds, but the amazing performances/acts/etc. we saw included: (more…)

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Music by the ‘Click of Death’

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

If you’ve used a computer long enough, chances are good that you’ve heard it:

The click of death.

It happens (inevitably) when your hard drive physically fails to read some data, signaling its soon-to-arrive death.

More specifically, the drive arm swings quickly back and forth across the data plates/disks because it can’t read data, creating a clicking sound that can prompt a tech nerd to nearly experience a myocardial infarction. I’ve heard the dreadful sound twice in my days on Earth, and each time it sent me running to a computer store to buy a new hard disk.

So anyway, I’m in the market to rebuild my desktop (running out of space, my data backup plan is crummy, I like a techy challenge, etc.). While I’m brushing up on RAID configurations, the latest hard drives, backup/recovery solutions, etc. when I stumble across this: (more…)

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