Timely Futurama

futurama globetrottersJust caught a Futurama episode on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. All I can say is: Go and find the episode called “Time Keeps on Slipping”. It is hilarious. It is a brilliant mixture of physics and basketball jokes. Time is slipping uncontrollably due to an interplanetary basketball game…. Earth has been challenged by the planet Globetrotter, for … No reason – absolutely no stakes beyond the shame of defeat. (Found a random site here with some information that may or may not be helpful.)

Two random very funny (in context) lines I sort of remember (not accurate): Click to continue reading this post

Coiled

Well, in the fine and tedious tradition of various huge Hollywood movies (perhaps most recently Batman Begins), in showing the following picture I probably should have used the blog post title “I gotta get me one of those”, or some slight variant:

tesla electric car

… but I’ll spare you the cliché. This car is part of a fantasy that I (and some others) […] Click to continue reading this post