Category: junk thought

Some quick notes about numbers

Real Numbers: million, billion, quintillion, googolplex

Imaginary Numbers*: jillion, kajilion, zillion, gazillion, berylian, majilion

More interestingly:

In the PBS science program Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 9: “The Lives of the Stars”, astronomer and television personality Carl Sagan estimated that writing a googolplex in numerals (i.e., “10,000,000,000…”) would be physically impossible, since doing so would require more space than the known universe occupies. – wikipedia

* Not the kind Descartes would have made fun of.

9/11 Truth

Judy Wood is a name well known in some circles – some regard her as an expert on her topic of choice, the truth behind 9/11.

She has a fairly large section on her website debunking the myth of a thermite-based controlled demolition, (the most common story I’ve encountered when I’ve bothered to wet my toes in crazy,) while constantly expounding the importance of the scientific method.

So, if not a case of basic engineering meeting fiery airplanes, nor a thermite conspiracy, what then is the truth according to Judy Woods?

SPACE LASERS.

My generation has finally found its own puff of smoke on the grassy knoll.

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Vince Offer – The Slap Chop Guy

I realize I’m kicking around the bowels of TV-commercialism a bit, but it reminded me that I needed to look into something; I’ve been getting funny looks when I imply the “Stop having a boring tuna, stop having a boring life.” guy has a name beyond Vince – part of the problem was that I couldn’t recall his show-surname, I just knew it was something like “Vince Sales” or “Vince Crapyouwannabuy”.

Now, thanks to wikipedia, my memory is refreshed:

Offer “Vince” Shlomi (born April 25, 1964 in Haifa, Israel) also known as Vince Offer or the ShamWow! Guy, is a writer, director, and comedian widely known as the owner and pitchman of two sold-on-TV products: ShamWow! absorbent towels and the Slap Chop food chopper.

– more

Almost more interestingly: Vince Offer is apparently a failed comedian. While hawking his unsellable film, The Underground Comedy Movie, he accidentally stumbled into the fact that people will buy anything at 3 in the morning.

Comedy movie? Well – sort of:

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Spacey

150px-SpaceMOHIt’s the kind of day that starts with me thinking I’m digging myself out from under a pile of work, and ends with me realizing all I’ve done is dug a massive work containment pool.

Still, I’ve found inspiration in something I previously didn’t even know existed: the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

First awarded by President Jimmy Carter, it’s recipients include Neil Armstrong, for his valiant defense of LM-5 “Eagle” against wave after wave of Zombie Nazi Moon men; Charles “Pete” Conrad, for his saving of the Skylab 2 mission by engaging in brutal hand-to-hand combat with the station’s own Artificial Intelligence; and Robert Crippen , whose life was later recounted in the major motion picture, The Last Starfighter.

Joking aside, (well, except maybe about Pete, I wouldn’t want to meet him in a well lit, yet underpowered, alley,) there’s one person not on the list that comes immediately to mind as deserving this medal: Buzz Aldrin. For punching that guy in the face. (And boy, did that guy deserve it.)

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Real American Huh?

Did you know that G.I. Joe has put out several real people as Joes?

Wikipedia has a complete list, but I like the idea of a Buzz Aldrin, Robert Crippen or Bob Hope with life like kung fu grip.

I was a little surprised that they mix the list with people who fake their heroism though – people like movie alien puncher Rowdy Roddy Piper, ’80s wrestler Sergeant Slaughter, and dramatic actor Colin Powell.

I wonder if Powell was considered because of his Emmy award winning presentation at the U.N. or his sleeper hit, the My Lai 4 cover up.

Fake Colin Powell