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| | I think this may be the first time the above Paul Dirac quote made it into the Quote of Day. Maybe I should make them rotating, rather than random. As I added that quote probably a month ago and don t recall seeing it before now.
First class quote. And it gets better each time you read it. From one of my favorite partical physicists (yeah, it s OK to have more than one). In our Laser Tag playing days shortly after college, I always used the call name Fermi-Dirac, as in Fermi-Dirac Statistics or Fermi-Dirac Distributions -- I m sure at the time I still had a meaningful understanding of what those were. Now they re just familiar terms that pop into my head from time to time. Alas poor Physics, I knew you well.
Oh well. I still know and remember the important stuff... Schrodinger s Equation (and his cat), Heisenburg s Uncertainty Principle, General and Special Relativity... but Pauli s Exclusion Principle, the Zeeman Effect and Maxwell-Boltzmann -- sorry, you guys are distant memories, long ago replaced by BloodBowl action probabilities and D&D Character Class tables.
Probably a worthwhile trade-off.
God, I m such a nerd.
-bampf | | 3/21/2007 9:55:11 PM The power of the Green Smoothie | Comments (39) |
| So Meghan picked up some avocados on a whim last week. We do love avocados but there was nothing in the house to use em with. Not like you can eat em straight. That s just weird. So we took a giant leap of faith based on a recomendation from one of her co-workers and presently are enjoying Avocado Smoothies. Surprisingly quite nice. Mmmm.
Last week I made a chicken and rice dish. I m breaking all kinds of boundaries. I never cook with rice. My family never ate rice growing up. Ever. Rice-a-roni was the only rice I ever ate probably until at least high school... maybe college. So it was a big step for me. Don t laugh. My sad attempts at becoming a foodie are meager I know... but I m trying. And with Alton s guidance maybe one day... maybe.
In other news, the gods have been defeated. And I sit anxiously awaiting God of War 3. Todd s prediction was quite right that Zeus was absurdly easy as an end boss compared to Ares in the first. But overall the game was most excellent. And now my PS2 can go back in cold storage. Poor neglected fella.
Other big news... D&D is returning and it s all the buzz. Since my last campaign wrapped up maybe 6 months ago, the urge was getting pretty strong. You can only stray for so long before your various nerd longings pull ya back.
-bampf | | | All I need say, is God of War 2 o\/\/nZ you all!!
Can t beleive some of you morons bought a shitty Wii. All you needed do was wait til now for the ultimate gaming experience.
Today I lept from a pegasus onto the back of a griffin, butchered its rider, sawed off both griffin wings and then smashed the thing leaping back onto the pegasus.
Later I beat hell out of an immortal servant of Zeus. Took his pole arm, skewered him with it, and then smashed his head in a giant door about a dozen times Bullet Tooth Tony style.
Yeah, and I m just getting started.
-bampf | | | Remember the TMNT movie teaser trailer? It looked so badass. So much potential. See the regular trailers? Absolute kiddie trash. Damn you Eastman and Laird! May you stop enjoying banging the hell out of Julie Strain, Mr Eastman.
And then Micheal Bay gets to poop on the Transformers. Couple that with a mildly disappointing 300... it s enough to make a nerd cry.
Did I mention Silver Surfer looks tragically lame in the F4 trailers?
The hits just keep on coming.
I m gonna start collecting funds to begin production on a kick ass GI Joe movie. Eary Marvel Joe... when they killed people. Before Cobra-La and Space GI Joe, or whatever other lame shit they introduced later (this includes you Quick-Kick).
I m talking Snakes Eyes and Duke kicking hell out of Destro and Maj Bludd. And The Baroness s tight ass suit getting ripped up and a boob falls out.
And then the dreadnaughts show up and get stomped by Roadblock, but then Hawk reveals himself to be Zartan incognito and a gajillion Cobra foot soldiers bust down the door and the shit really hits the fan.
Yeah. So start sending me your donations. I ll start calling Hasbro about licensing rights.
-bampf
PS I take it back, Eastman. In no way can you not enjoy banging Julie Strain. Keep living every nerds dream, good sir! Bang away. | | | Well, 300 Day passed with little fanfare. I took a day off work to take in the carnage. Was planning on multiple viewings, but that plan fell by the wayside.
The movie was good. Definitely not up to Sin City quality though. I had the hope that 300 would translate better to film, as I always thought 300 was a very middling Miller opus. But the movie had all the same problems as the comic. Still a very entertaining 2 hours of cinema. I recommend one and all to see it (save Jamie, whose weak girly stomache turns at the site of blood). I m sure I ll take in one more screening. Just won t be the 3-in-a-day filmfest that coulda been.
Also of note, Moe s burrito place is a weak substitute for Neato Burrito. Don t fall into the trap.
Other news...
Evan is out of the house. Living the wild bachelor life solo in downtown Harrisburg. I hear his place is in dersperate need of an upper deck. Some one should get on that. His departure relieves some tensions that had developed in the house. And in a hotly contested knife-fight Meghan beat out Probie in claiming his room (thanks be, to the wrist-slashing strategy endorsed on this very blog) so she will have a studio now to ply her trade.
The witch is dead. Tap/Flab-master Sylvia got his face pounded in. So now the UFC can stop sucking at the heavyweight division. Happy days.
Work on our first custom BloodBowl board wrapped up last week. She s a beaut despite all the mistakes we made as we fumbled our way thru the process. More boards shall be forthcoming now that we have some semblance of a clue on how to make the stinking things.
Gun Show!!! Come exercise your 2nd Ammendment rights next week! Gun show at the Farm Show Complex. I know quite a few have expressed interest. Saturday or Sunday, whatever works for the most people. We should have a good crew. Stick it to a damn dirty hippie, buy a gun!
That s all for now. Catch you all later.
-bampf | | | Anyone else notice a disturbing trend of formally edgy anti-mainstream bands being used to peddle patently mainstream lame ass products? In the last couple of weeks I ve seen comercials featuring The Ramones, Violent Femmes and Nirvana...
What the hell is going on? It s disturbing. The Ramones song was being used to peddle a children s product. It s so... distressing.
I mean I know my generation is doing a lot of reproducing so they re clearly targetting 30-something parents and all but still... makes you feel so empty. Like yer youth has been mortgaged (just like your childhood was by that pig fucker Lucas).
It s a sad sorry state of affairs.
-bampf | | 3/1/2007 1:35:00 PM The Tomlin Error err.. Era | Add Comment |
| It is a sad day in Steelers Nation. I was very displeased with the selection of Mike Tomlin as Cowher s successor. After I let the emotions die down a little I settled down and figured I should give him a chance... ya never know.
But now... we release Joey Porter. Our best linebacker. If that wasn t bad enough- this, along with other scattered rumors and innuendo, indicate a probable switch to the 4-3. Worst... idea... ever.
Not only is it an inferior system, but the Steelers personel have been groomed to excel in that system. It s plain stupid. This is a team 1 year removed from a World Championship and it s being overhauled like a cellar dwelling team. This will set us back years.
Fuck you, Mike Tomlin and your gay-ass Tampa-2 4-3 defense. You put Troy Polamalu back as a cover 2 safety and you ll only prove you re the biggest idiot in football (save maybe Herm Edwards).
An added note of frustration... a couple players have already voiced similar opinions. Good job, Rooneys. Ya big jerks.
Now... watch... Tomlin will unveil a revolutionary new system that revolutionizes the league and I ll have to eat crow. But that wouldn t be so bad...
I just highly doubt it.
-bampf
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