Is your day just too normal? Is your WTF tank running dry? Well, rejoice! David Lewandowski has, after a gap of some years, returned to grace the world with another round of crazysauce.
First there was “Going to the store”
Then there was “Late for Meeting.”
Now at long last there’s “Time For Sushi.”
This is what it feels like to go mad. Are the stars at last right? Has sunken R’lyeh risen from the waves? Are dogs and cats living together?
When Mel Brooks’ “Spaceballs” came out, my main thought was “this Star Wars parody is a bit late in coming out, should’ve come out *years* ago.” Well, guess what. It *did* come out years ago. Thirty of ’em, in fact, having opened on June 24, nineteen hundred and friggen eighty seven.
I’m’a go cry now.
Once again they’ve launched and landed a Falcon 9 that they had already launched and landed before…
… for McDonalds.
In short, a major corporation has concluded that machines are better than no-skill humans, even at minimum wage. And here’s the thing: as time goes on, the machines will get better, more reliable and cheaper… while no-skill humans will remain the same.
This to me is a pretty good argument for reducing the minimum wage to something nearly trivial… say, $3 an hour. Min-wage burger flipper jobs are *supposed* to be entry-level temporary work, work that helps teenagers learn the ropes of responsibility. Show up on time, do decent work, learn to take orders, figure out how to advance. But if the minimum wage is raised so high that minimum wage jobs simply go away, then what will unskilled kids do to get skilled? Go straight from Junior High to jobs making $30K/year? I don’t think so.
New photos released from Star Trek: Discovery show three things of interest:
1: Have these people never seen a transporter room in *any* star Trek series? STD is set approximately at the same time as the original Star Trek pilot, “The Menagerie.” Which looked like this:
2: They’re wearing some sort of minimal body armor. Not entirely new for Star Trek… security guards wore armor (including helmets) in ST:TMP and STIII)
3: Their phasers, at least, look like they are actually based on TOS-era phasers. It would be odd if the one design element that they actually carry over from actual Star Trek is the one design element that they should feel pretty free to change. After all, during “The Menagerie,” starfleet’s sidearm looked like this:
As anyone who has watched cable/satellite news since at least 9/11/2001 knows, when the all-important “Breaking News!” thing flashes across your screen, you can rest reasonably sure that they’re not going to tell you anything they haven’t been telling you for the last 10 hours. The BBC had a magnificent example of that just a few days ago when their system glitched out and for about 4 minutes the “News At Ten” kept flashing “Breaking News” and random clips interspersed with a silent and rather glum looking anchorman Huw Edwards. It’s surprisingly entertaining, for all that virtually nothing happens.
Here’s something interesting on eBay:
The AQM-37 used a hypergolic liquid rocket motor, which I would imagine isn’t included here. With some effort I imagine it could be replaced with a hybrid rocket motor and turned into the most badass RC airplane around.
Oh, good. Russia shooting down Malaysian airliners over Ukraine is bad enough, but shooting down American combat aircraft? That’s a whole new level of stupid.
Now, there is a valid argument to be made over whether the US should be in Syria at all. A case can be made that we shouldn’t, thus freeing up ISIS forces to dominate the region, spreading death and decay, and forcing the Europeans to either man up or begin the process of knuckling under. But so long as we’re there, US planes should do their job, which includes wiping out Assads criminal military actions. And if Russian forces try to shoot down US planes, they should be counter-attacked in response. And that sort of thing tends to escalate.
… I wonder if perhaps this might be reacting *a**bit* excessively.
I wonder about the plusses-minuses about having a significant other *that* passionate about nerdly subjects.