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Speculative Hard Science and Science Fiction. And Metal.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Signing Off Until Late June

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As noted in title of post. Thanks for reading. Until then, remember, there are three awesome things: metal, science fiction, and space st...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

I Have the Cast Iron Crow Demo

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In fact I am listening to it currently, but I have been told by certain individuals - hypothetically, members of Cast Iron Crow - not to di...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Combinatorial Explosion, Simulation Argument and Roundworms

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Caenorhabditis elegans is a roundworm which has exactly 302 neurons. For this reason it is used as a simple model for neuroscience. Simpl...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Cooking, New Definitions, Brutal Death-Grind

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1) Cooking: Epic Meal Time! Next level breakfast maneuver: 2) New definition - sociopathos : the mixture of glee and contempt you feel...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Iced, Iced Baby

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Baby born after 20 years frozen as embryo . (More descriptive, but less fun than the post title I chose.) 1) There are probably not enoug...

How Can You Miss the Religious/Materialist Tropes in the Matrix?

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Remember that scene in the Matrix, where Special Agent Smith is having dinner (in our simulated world) with eventual sell-out Joe Pantoliano...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The Green Slime

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Where can I get a copy of this movie? It's not on Netflix. I remembered watching it as a little kid and laughing at it even then.
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Saturday, December 25, 2010

New Yamato Metal Video by Animetal

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I don't think this was on Youtube before. This version has the full song by Animetal. The band looks like if KISS and Voltron had chil...
Thursday, December 23, 2010

Alligators Vibrating Water

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Alligators bellow when they're mating. I've never heard this in person but want to. Look at how the water above their backs vibrat...

Early 70s Rock and Chaco Canyon

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I finally saw Chaco Canyon in New Mexico yesterday ( pictures here ). One of the main complexes is called Chetro Ketl. I don't know wh...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Oh What Fun To Ride and Sing a Slayer Song Tonight

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When I thought of that I had to use it as the title of a post. Holiday Seasons in the Abyss! Clearly the Middle Eastern theme of the video...

The Great Filter: Why All This Talk of "Civilizations?"

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In discussions of filters and Fermi paradoxes, questions are often asked with the word "civilization". Why, we wonder, do we not ...

Area Woman Sets Microwave To Wrong Power Setting for Pizza, Creates Higgs Boson

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PADUCAH, KY - Area woman Susan Tyson got more than she bargained for when the distracted mother of three accidentally set her microwave on ...

Megadeth at the Stone in San Francisco, 1984

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Here's Megadeth with then-member Kerry King, at the Stone in San Francisco in 1984. I have heard tell of this legendary show, often fro...

Science Fair Humor

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I once had the privilege of attending a middle school science fair at a somewhat rough California public school. The displays were in the u...

Good Old Pennsylvania Christian Death Metal: Believer, Extraction from Mortality

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A few weeks ago I was going through and digitizing my remaining cassette collection* and realized I still had Extraction from Morality , by ...

Uchuu Senkan Yamato Word of Mouth

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... is good . Firsthand reports from a discriminating Japanese liker of Yamato confirm it's a solid flick. U.S. release! Come on, mar...

The Brazilian Metal Invasion

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Guess who. Of note: having recently completed the histology portion of my preclinical med school education, I was disappointed that we did...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Unexpected Philosophical Positions in Metal

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I ran across this bit at Agent Intellect when looking for (of all things) a post about religion and psychoanalysis. In it the author notes...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

I Am A Recognized Authority(tm) on Star Blazers/Yamato

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Reader Matt K. notes that when he was recently searching for a picture of Derek Wildstar aka Kodai (if you believe the nonsense that Star Bl...
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