The Observatory

The part of the Super Bowl that really matters

Mr11 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:02:39 +0000

Those of you that know me know that I care nothing for the super bowl or watching sports in general. That being said, these are the parts of the super bowl that really matter:

http://www.superherohype.com/news/gijoenews.php?id=8032

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)

Mr11 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:18:27 +0000

Look, I hate to think this way but this is TOTALLY how I imagine most women would explain the Star Wars movies. Sorry to those of you that don’t fall into my stereotype but…man, there can only be like 5 of you .

Japanese are the coolest

Mr11 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:30:26 +0000

I’ll let this SMB video speak for itself:

Bush Shoe Throw – WoW Style

Mr11 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:17:54 +0000

Dang, I haven’t posted anything in a long time. I doubt anyone is missing them, but in case you are this made me laugh so HARD.

Elections over – time for jokes

Mr11 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:25:28 +0000

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…just had to say that now that there won’t be any more political advertisements . Also, man, this has special meaning to me since it reminds me of Killer Instinct, but this cracked me up so bad:

Off the cuff: Let’s philosophize about healthcare for all

Mr11 — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:10:27 +0000

So the other day I was sitting at lunch with my co-workers and they were talking about stuff I am really not well versed in: politics. One of the things that someone said (I am paraphrasing here) was that they were unsure about whether or not a healthcare plan by the government in which everyone has coverage is a bad thing (some people would think that this statement makes no sense, but follow me). The jist of what he was saying was that he believes in helping people and wants people to be healthy so maybe it would be a good thing if the government ensured that everyone had health care.

Here is where the “off the cuff” portion of my post title comes from, my response to his comment just popped into my head so I said it. It had nothing to do with the cost of such a type of plan and how that would affect my taxes or anything else that would seem obvious, my comment was something along the following lines: “If we had a system in which everyone had healthcare which was paid by the tax dollars of people who don’t necessarily want to help pay for the healthcare of others then does that really help us as a society? I mean sure, the people getting healthcare benefit but the hearts of the people are still unchanged. We need to change the minds and hearts of the people rather than rip the money from their tightly gripped hands.”

So my question is with respect to the long term. Is it better to force change onto an unwilling people so that a portion of society will benefit or is it better to wait for those people to want to make the change themselves? Both seem to have draw backs and benefits. My only hope would be that people can think about this from a perspective that is outside of yourself.

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California 2008 – Better late than never

Mr11 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:39:29 +0000

Well it only took me about a month and a half to get pictures up but I posted 30 pictures from our trip to California. You will see them in the sidebar on the left or you can go here to see the slideshow, enjoy!

http://flickr.com/photos/24811110@N04/sets/72157607566528905/show/

Clever advertisement

Mr11 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:29:13 +0000

I saw this and thought that it was rather clever (watch the whole thing):

http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

LHC Rap

Mr11 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:21:19 +0000

Since my good friend Kevin has been posting rap videos about Football (evidence here and here) I figured that I should post a rap video as well. Seeing as how I know nothing about Football I figured I would post one more closely related to stuff that I seem to enjoy, this time it’s science. Say hello to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC):

This bad boy will probably end the world as soon as they start smashing particles together next month. Here to tell you all about it is a visitor to the LHC:

17 long years

Mr11 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:25:22 +0000

This year we experienced something that only happens once every 17 years: the reproduction portion of the Cicada lifecycle. It was by far the loudest insect I have ever heard, well not one singular Cicada but rather the mass swarms of them, it was insane. Anyways, I found this cool video that talks about them, enjoy!

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