A little monologue for your Tuesday. I meant to post this yesterday for alliteration’s sake, but those pesky technical issues got in the way.
Category Archives: Entertainment
mo’ momo: so you feel like shit
See, this is why you shouldn’t mess with Canadians. Because not only did we popularize the concept of brutality in team sports (there’s no “I” in “ICU!” Oh, wait…Canadians say “I” will put “U” in intensive care, “C?”) but our motivational speakers don’t natter on about lathering your positive vibes over the pectorals of the Universe or scattering the rose petals of your dreams on the cosmic winds. They just straight-out tell you what to do when you feel like shit.
Canucks do not mess around. If we’d had momo during the War of 1812, our Foreign Minister and his biker chick would be enduring CSIS‘s interrogations from their private quarters in the White House.
Pretty Strange
Actually, I love that dress. I would wear it every damn day.
Also: howcum celebrities get to do this kind of crap to their hair all the time and it never falls out? Are they genetically different? Bred somewhere on an island where the Supremes, the Monkees, and Abba are holed up, pumping out eugenically perfect pop stars? It would explain a lot, when you think about it.
Martian Sunset
A beautiful Martian sunset is pic o’ the day here at the ol’ raincoaster blog.
Click here for the whole gallery of Mars Phoenix images from NASA
And here is an entertaining video of the whole liftoff-to-landing process. Alas, unlike the last one (possibly the world’s coolest Mars probe simulation) there is no NIN soundtrack. Just sing Closer really, really loudly as you watch.
Developed in the summer of 2004, this animation visulaizes launch in August 2007 and entry, descent, and landing of the Phoenix Mars Mission in May 2008. Currently the animation is in the rough-cut phase and is being modified as the spacecraft develops. The animation was created by Maas Digital under the direction of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Solar System Visualization Project.
Buzz Lightyear and Buzz Aldrin, together again for the first time
Yep, looks like every able-bodied military person in the US must be overseas, because NASA has apparently turned to imaginary American Buzz Lightyear for their next mission.
Real American and real hero Buzz Aldrin is his mentor.
O, how the mighty have fallen.
There’s a clue to the motivation for this travesty in the YouTube info:
Veteran astronaut Buzz Aldrin mentors Buzz Lightyear, co-star of the Disney-Pixar Toy Story films. Buzz (the toy) is headed to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Discovery to commemorate the opening of “Toy Story Mania!” at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California.
I wonder how many zeros Buzz Aldrin got for his dignity.
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