Posted in Science!, tagged awesome, NatGeo, neil degrasse tyson, physics, science, science fiction, star wars, StarTalk on October 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
While we wait to see if the European Space Agency’s ExoMars mission and its Schiaparelli lander makes it to the Martian surface intact, here is Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, taking on that most important of questions: are lightsabers physically possible?
Curious? I know I am!
Posted in Entertainment, Likes, tagged #flymcfly, awesome, Back to the Future Day, Charlie Jane Anders, entertainment, fun, futurism, genre fiction, hoverboard, inspiration, mad science, neil degrasse tyson, science fiction, sff, yay on October 21, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Today is Back to the Future Day! In honor of Marty McFly’s time travel to the future in the second installment of that classic movie series, I shall microwave all beverages for exactly 1 minute and 21 seconds, wonder when I’ll finally be able to buy a real hoverboard, and think fondly of mad scientists.
You know, pretty much a normal day here at Chez J 🙂
FYI: I really did go back to work, but only after reading Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tweets on living in the future (us, now!), and Charlie Jane Anders’ 11 Incredible Secrets About The Making Of Back To The Future (because she is awesome and so is the movie), and then, heck, a couple of Star Wars articles, because Star Wars! Ahem.
Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged Apple, Cosmos, Dockstar, iMac, neil degrasse tyson, productive distractions, Sir Patrick Stewart, speed of light, technology, toys, work, yay on April 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Ah, that’s better! I’ve just finished switching over to a new computer, and it’s bigger better faster and all kinds of more awesome than the six-year old tower I had been using. This is it, still wrapped in the thoughtfully designed protective blankie covering in which it was delivered. Under all the styrofoam and cardboard, of course.
I find there are always transition issues with a new computer, even when that computer is a Mac. Take, for example, the soul-crushing realization that a favorite app, DockStar from Ecamm, is not compatible with the new Mavericks OS. Granted, Apple’s Mail has a tiny bit of DockStar’s functionality built in, but I do mean tiny. Ecamm, I hope you find a buyer for the program soon. Alternatively, Apple needs to incorporate that functionality into its system, stat!
The new machine is so fast. Henceforth, all writing will take place at the speed of light. Or 99.9% of same (see, Neil deGrasse Tyson, I was listening to you in episode 1.04 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, and not just because it included voice acting by SirPatStew;).
Posted in Other, Science!, tagged atoms, awesome, human body, iain banks, illness, Motivation, neil degrasse tyson, physics, science, stars, Thoughts on June 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Now might be a good time to spend a little time with everyone’s favorite physicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, as he revisits the origins of the atoms that make up the human body.
From stars we came and to the stars we must return.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Where Our Atoms Came From
J.R. Johnson 
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