Sunday, March 29, 2009

 

Chimpanzee Segway Song Spoof!

I was bored and thinking of other lyrics that would fit to the exact same tune of Chimpanzee Riding on a Segway. Mostly stuff in the news, maybe serious. But imagine if they were illustrated to the song. Comedy gold!

Missing white girl on Nancy Grace Show:

Missing white girl on Nancy Grace Show
Missing white girl on Nancy Grace Show
Bam bam buh bam bam baam
Missing white girl on Nancy Grace Show
Missing white girl on Nancy Grace Show
Bam buh bam bam bam
She is missing, and she's cute and white
Would Ms Nancy care, if it were a minorateeeeee? Noooo
Missing white girl on Nancy Grace Show
Missing white girl on Nancy Grace Show
Bam buh bam bam bam

Old dumb people living in a flood plain:
Old dumb people living in a flood plain
Old dumb people living in a flood plain
Bam bam buh bam bam baam
Old dumb people living in a flood plain
Old dumb people living in a flood plain
They've been flooded, and it's happened before
Don't you think they'd, have moved already, back in 'eighty twooooo? Yeah?
Old dumb people living in a flood plain
Old dumb people living in a flood plain
Bam buh bam bam bam

AIG Took all our money:
AIG Took all our money
AIG Took all our money
Bam bam buh bam bam baam
AIG Took all our money
AIG Took all our money
They took the money, and gave big bonuses
Congress is mad, but they're responsible for it... Tooo.
AIG Took all our money
AIG Took all our money
Bam buh bam bam bam

Kim Jong Il launching a missile:
Kim Jong Il launching a missile
Kim Jong Il launching a missile
Bam bam buh bam bam baam
Kim Jong Il launching a missile
Kim Jong Il launching a missile
He's got a missile, and he's gonna launch it
Japan doesn't look surprised, yeah!
Kim Jong Il launching a missile
Kim Jong Il launching a missile
Bam buh bam bam bam

I must be freaking bored, but just imagine real news headlines to that tune. It'll brighten your day if everything seems glum or f'd up otherwise. Try it!

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

 

The building blocks of pyramids

I was reading stuff on some website about how the blocks for the pyramids in Egypt were moved from the quarry, and it makes some sense. Basically you move the blocks by rolling them over a track consisting of half-circles. But it turns out, they're not quite circle sections but catenarys instead. And the guy on the site was going on about how they'd calculate or evaluate to go from a half-circle approximation to a catenary. The way I look at it, the guy was wasting his time. In addition to rulers and other such drafting equipment, what did the Egyptians of the time have plenty of? What forms a natural catenary when suspended between two points? Duh! They used a piece of rope as reference for making this. You get a rope such that the length is equal to the side of the block you're moving. Then you make a square guide out of wood with the sides equal to those of the block you're going to roll. Angle the square such that the corner is like a pivot, then adjust the rope such that both ends are level on each leg of the sqare and that its center just rests on the ground. Pile up some planks behind that, trace the catenary made by the rope over, and there ya go. Not much math to it. Then once you cut the planks to that shape, bind them together and make some duplicates. Lie them down with the curved part facing up, and roll your blocks over those pivots like the logical theory says...

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Sunday, March 08, 2009

 

Project EARS idea...

This probably follows up an idea in an old post somewhere, but I still think it would make a rather interesting science project. So what is EARS? EARS is just an acronym I made up for Exotic Astronomical Radio Source. More or less, it's a radio astronomy equivalent to the Hubble telescope or perhaps the newly launched Kepler telescope. As to the general gist of how I picture it, EARS should be an exceptionally large reflector dish made with inflatable structures and placed in a Lagrange orbit. Perhaps it could be a multiple mission package. One or two for the inflatable dish (yes an entire payload if not two for the structural component, because when fully unfurled it should rival the Aricebo reflector in size) and another for the electronics package.

Another idea may be to send out a huge swarm of probes into an array located in that particular orbit, just depends on how well they can be kept on station relative to each other. But the effect is the same, you want a large collector without interference from the earth itself. Other than Lagrange sattelites, the remaining option would be a lunar far side observatory. But I'd suspect that dropping payloads on the moon is trickier than putting science sats in Lagrange orbit.

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Saturday, March 07, 2009

 

It's ok so far...

What's the topic about? I guess it's about how I'm doing. (I'm not living from my car or a cardboard box at least. So I can be thankful for that.) I'm trying to see if I got responses from job applications, following up on random old email addresses I have floating around in my contacts lists, and listening to some cool music from Archive.org (I should make a post reviewing that sometime) on a 2nd-hand iPod Nano using Floola.

Oh yeah, yesterday I even went as far as hand delivering my resume and example graphics to a place I saw posting in a newspaper help wanted ad. (If they respond wanting an interview, I'll know how to get there too.) There are signs that the economy is as overdue to pick up as much as I'm overdue to get a job since graduating college just over two years ago. (We both need the cash flow, right?) So we'll see... At least I'm thinking I might have a shot at it.

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Sunday, March 01, 2009

 

What the heck?

I woke up from a stupid-ass dream. Forgot what the main part of it was, but I was clearing out a really crappy-ass apartment when I was heading to the balcony where the stairs were. But the part that stuck in my head for no reason was some song on a nearby radio played to a banjo of all things. And I only remember that it was about "Agrathena". Never hearing of a name like that before, I went to look it up online after I woke up. And yes, at one point in time there was such a name. But no reference to a weird-ass song. Making it odd that I'd hear such a song in a lame-ass dream. So that aspect of the dream makes no sense, yet I remember it. So what the heck?

As for the cicada tinnitus from before? It went away after I laid off the Mt.Dew. I figure it was probably the right combination of excessive amounts of caffiene, high-fructose corn syrup, and sodium benzoate that did it. So I'll stick with less potent soft-drinks from now on...

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