(four posts in one day–a lot for me)
Our state’s very own pet atheist made #45 on a list of the 50 most brilliant of all time. Brainz.org for the win!
W00t! He gets free beer from me the next time he’s in the Twin Cities!
Science fair projects for the Apocalypse
My Trophy Beloved asked me to post this for her.
This is a science fair for homeschooled kids–the one my children will not be attending. The rules state you have to use a verse of scripture when developing your project, and my boys were just full of ideas.
Here are some they came up with:
1. The verse about how the sons (pl.) of God slept with the daughters of men, creating giants.
The boys thought DNA testing would be interesting to see how many grandchildren God has.
2. “With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.“
The guys think that it would take an awful lot of babies to keep an adult well-nourished. The project would need to demonstrate the number of calories in a well-fed baby, as well as a malnourished one.
3. The verse which says “Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!“
The boys thought this would make a great physics project, calculating the momentum, force, height etc. needed to dash a baby’s head against the rock and inflicting serious damage.
I guess we’ll be forgoing this science fair. Although good scientific method is
most likely nonexistent, I am guessing there will be no lack of pitchforks, torches, or peasants at this do.
–Trophy Beloved, mother of the Four Horsemen
(I would add an additional project to calculate the amount of energy it would take to stop the earth from rotating (aka Joshua stopping the sun) and what that amount of energy would do to the earth.)
I hope Bank of America gets roasted for this one
Charlie and Maria Cardoso bought a retirement home in the Tampa, Florida, area in 2005. They paid the entire purchase price ($139,000) for the house in cash.
Last July the dumbshits at Tampa’s Bank of America mortgage office foreclosed on it.
BoA scared and ran off the Cardoso’s rental tenant, installed a lockbox, changed the locks, took down the back-yard fence, turned off the utilities (causing frozen water pipes), and destroyed property the Cardosos had stored in the house when the dumbshits looted emptied it.
BoA was supposed to foreclose on a house across the street from the Cardoso house, but some clerk made a mistake on the foreclosure form. Repeated calls to BoA received promises that the the mistake would be rectified, but no corrective action was taken.
A suit has been filed, and the rightful owners are demanding a personal apology. If they’re smart, they will demand that there be 7 figures in that apology.
Acetylene + pure oxygen = chlorine titrated into gene pool
(I’m being lazy today. Here’s a story from one of the 2010 Darwin Award nominees. Support the DA site–its humor is grim, which is the best kind.)
Every now and then a completely new window into the world opens before our eyes. Here we have rural Dutch families enjoying their traditional winter sport, carbidschieten, or Carbide Shooting. It’s a ridiculously dangerous machine akin to a potato gun, designed to hurl projectiles from the mouth of a metal milk can.
Carbide shooting, that wacky Dutch New Year’s tradition, begins with moistening calcium carbide and placing it in a large milk container. The damp CaCb emits acetylene (ethyne) gas which builds up inside the container. Then a spark is supplied, causing the pressurized gas bomb to blow the lid (or packing) off the milk jug.
Our nominee, a 54-year-old male, was having the time of his life–right up until the moment he poured a container filled with liquid oxygen over a fire to “flare it up” — and the container obligingly exploded.
