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Me: You’re right, that pizza took a long time to get here. But you know what they say, “Better late than never”
Him: Not if someone is trying to kill you!

Last night, we finished watching the Cosmos series. I remember watching the Carl Sagan version as a child. It you weren’t affected by it, you weren’t paying attention. The new version is wonderful as well. We watched it as a family. The kids got different things out of it, and didn’t understand many things, but that’s fine. We had great discussions, and turned on some curiousity. It was also a rare setting where my geekiness is a plus. Speed of light? About 186,000 miles per second or 300 million meters per second. Distance to the sun? About 93 million miles. Etc.

Near the end, there was a bit on the “Pale Blue Dot” of Earth. It is well worth watching in full.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

Since seeing this, I have felt a bit distant myself. It is awesome in the literal sense. And of course this view is still within our solar system, it does not begin to show the true size of the universe. The show should have ended right there.

The Earth is the small dot about halfway up the stripe on the right. (The stripe is an artifact of Voyagers’ photography, it does not exist in reality.)

With the recent upgrade, many image links seem to have broken. They are easily fixed, but they need to be tracked down one by one. If you happen to see a broken link, let me know.

Thanks.

As long as we’re hitting up Fleetwood Mac, here’s another great unknown one.

Steal your Heart Away, from 2003.

Welcome back to the blog! As a reward, you get a big batch of links.

World Cup: Traffic during USA Germany game

Ten brands to rule them all

Skydiver almost hit by meteorite

Oh my god

Alex Trebek makes a funny

I wish this didn’t make me laugh

Kafka’s joke book

That is a wonderful wedding cake

You can make a Buckinghams Palace guard smile. What makes it even better is the guys name is Yankel.

Donald Sterling at his best

Evolution

Goals

Which Harry Potter character are you?

Zebra

Fathers Day win

Funny baby bib

The Spongebob theme song is terrifying when played slowly

All hail the champion

Beach messages are temporary… a beautiful one in the sands.

The search for the end of TGIF endless appetizers

Joaquin Phoenix’s Forehead (rotated). Hypnotic.

John Cleese’s response to a young fan, and Michael Palin’s followup

Serious links:
Animals you didn’t know existed

Why the Meyers Briggs test is a waste of everyone’s time

The wreck of the Santa Maria has been found
Why you shouldn’t be in left lane driving slow and also driving me out my mind.

The correct way to dry your hands, with only one paper towel. I have adopted his methods. They work. Most impactful Ted talk yet.

I read Mick Fleetwood’s autobiography. I’ve always loved Rhiannon, and hearing the back story and how they used to do it live got me curious. They were awesome at it. Just awesome. Watch the video below, particularly around 2:30 when the dynamics and jam start up.

Here’s a couple other good versions:

Didi Benami shows the good side of American Idol

This girl shows the bad side. Uch.

I’ve never heard of Brooke White, but I’m going to keep my eye out for her now.

And of course the official studio version.

It has been an epic struggle. I am back. I have lost anything posted since March 18th, but that is a small price to pay. Thanks to Sid, and thanks to the fantastic tech support people at GoDaddy.

315 / 45 / 165?

163.4

Yeah!

I asked, “Are you the best girl in the world?”
She replied, in all earnestness, “Yes. Because I eat Mac and Cheese and that is healthy for me!”

Okay, it’s not a new one for me. But this particular version kills. Just kills! Simon playing wah-wah adds so much. This seems to have been the highlight song from that tour. Eminence Front was unworldly at the Atlanta show “l’il bro” and I saw. I don’t think there is any other Who song with a steady backing track that Pete goes lead guitar nuts on.

Best week ever for walking.

Bille Jean is almost certainly true. Or maybe not.

You know Yao Ming is big. But he’s really big.

A truly wonderful essay on life as an old person.

Reich Friends

Troubles with a survey

I don’t know how this was done. I don’t know why this was done. I am glad it was done.

Weird sports highlights of 2013

Merry Christmas from the fake sign language guy

10 interesting Victorian deaths

Checkmate