Implode
(Will appear in the March 2008 issue of Community News)
An object implodes when it collapses inwards. For example, to prevent damage to surrounding structures, buildings are sometimes demolished by timed explosions that destroy their internal supports, resulting in those spectacular implosions we all love to watch on television. Physics teachers sometimes demonstrate the force of air pressure by drawing the air out of a container (evacuating it) so that the container collapses in upon itself - it implodes. This is obviously the opposite of explode, in which something breaks apart and the parts fly outwards. Unfortunately, implode is now often used for any kind of collapse. People say that the Soviet Union imploded, when in fact it fragmented - broke apart into a number of separate countries, a common process when an empire dies. In this election season, when a politician withdraws from the presidential race, you'll hear that his campaign imploded, but of course it really just fizzled out, a very different kind of catastrophe.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Better Abdominals through Death and Semiresurrection
Death, I gather from horror movies, is a remarkably transformative experience, even an improving one. Or at least, semiresurrection is.
On the Buffy and Angel television shows (of beloved memory, curse the networks involved for not extending both to infinity), those who were killed and came back to life as vampires gained impressive martial-arts skills in the process.
That's uncommon. What does seem to be common, though, is reanimated corpses gaining the ability to perform a smooth, easy straight-leg situp while lying on a gurney, covered with a sheet, and with no one holding their feet down!
Now, I've been doing leg lifts for years. Okay, not regularly. Not even often. But never mind that. My abdominals are okay but far from great, and they're covered by a layer of, er, beer converted to manly flesh. I don't think I could do that kind of situp even with someone holding down my ankles. (And if I were on a gurney and covered by a sheet, I'd be too freaked out to try. Especially if there were hands gripping my ankles.)
So I guess leg lifts aren't the answer. But I don't know about getting myself killed by a supernatural creature and then being resurrected, gurney, sheet, etc. It seems a bit extreme. Especially since all the resurrected critters get to do is terrify a living character by grabbing her (almost always her) shoulder and mumbling something vague and enigmatic and significant. It's true that the shoulder almost always belong to a major babe, but even that's not really enough, considering that the resurrected critter, despite the great abs, returns limply to being dead shortly after the shoulder grabbing and mumbling.
I'll stick to leg lifts.
On the Buffy and Angel television shows (of beloved memory, curse the networks involved for not extending both to infinity), those who were killed and came back to life as vampires gained impressive martial-arts skills in the process.
That's uncommon. What does seem to be common, though, is reanimated corpses gaining the ability to perform a smooth, easy straight-leg situp while lying on a gurney, covered with a sheet, and with no one holding their feet down!
Now, I've been doing leg lifts for years. Okay, not regularly. Not even often. But never mind that. My abdominals are okay but far from great, and they're covered by a layer of, er, beer converted to manly flesh. I don't think I could do that kind of situp even with someone holding down my ankles. (And if I were on a gurney and covered by a sheet, I'd be too freaked out to try. Especially if there were hands gripping my ankles.)
So I guess leg lifts aren't the answer. But I don't know about getting myself killed by a supernatural creature and then being resurrected, gurney, sheet, etc. It seems a bit extreme. Especially since all the resurrected critters get to do is terrify a living character by grabbing her (almost always her) shoulder and mumbling something vague and enigmatic and significant. It's true that the shoulder almost always belong to a major babe, but even that's not really enough, considering that the resurrected critter, despite the great abs, returns limply to being dead shortly after the shoulder grabbing and mumbling.
I'll stick to leg lifts.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Baltimore Photos
I realized that I left out a crucial bit of information concerning Emily, our granddaughter, namely that she just turned 14. We last saw her when she was a toddler. So she's not a newborn, as some of my friends assumed. Sorry. I knew all that, of course, and so I assumed that everyone else did, too. You guys neglected to read my mind.
Anyhoo, in addition to the USS Constellation pics from before, here are picture of:
Emily and other people and some sights around the Baltimore inner harbor
The National Aquarium
We took a lot of photos inside the aquarium but few of them came out. The fish have appropriate formal names, none of which we wrote down, so we made up names suited to their appearance.
(Update on 1/20: I just fixed the links, which were bad before. So if you clicked on them and got a 404, please try again.)
Anyhoo, in addition to the USS Constellation pics from before, here are picture of:
Emily and other people and some sights around the Baltimore inner harbor
The National Aquarium
We took a lot of photos inside the aquarium but few of them came out. The fish have appropriate formal names, none of which we wrote down, so we made up names suited to their appearance.
(Update on 1/20: I just fixed the links, which were bad before. So if you clicked on them and got a 404, please try again.)
USS Constellation
Last night, we got our photos from our tour of the USS Constellation, which is moored in Baltimore's inner harbor, uploaded to the Kodak Web site. Click here to see that album.
More to come - photos of the inner harbor and, of course, of Emily and various other people. And a cat.
More to come - photos of the inner harbor and, of course, of Emily and various other people. And a cat.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Great Google Christmas Atheist Search
A few years ago, I put on our Web site an essay titled Should Atheists Celebrate Christmas? (Answer: no. Rather: NO!)
It was written mostly to express my annoyance at the atheists - and other non-Christians - who do celebrate Christmas, and I didn't expect a lot of people to see it. I reckoned without Google and the number of people using it around Christmas to look for information about Christmas and Hanukah and atheists and various other words used in the essay.
Some of the search terms are odd or amusing. Below is a list of them from a year's worth of Google (and other search engine) searches that brought people to the essay. I changed everything to lowercase, sorted, eliminated duplicates. I also corrected some misspellings, because those were creating spurious dupes; I'm sure I've missed a lot. (E.g., one I corrected is the ever popular athiest, which causes atheists to make jokes like, "I'm athier than you!" "Are not!" "Are too!" That one never gets old.) (Okay, it does get old.) Even with all of that, it's still a long list.
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wicca is fake
wiccan version twas the night before christmas
young atheist who had cancer
It was written mostly to express my annoyance at the atheists - and other non-Christians - who do celebrate Christmas, and I didn't expect a lot of people to see it. I reckoned without Google and the number of people using it around Christmas to look for information about Christmas and Hanukah and atheists and various other words used in the essay.
Some of the search terms are odd or amusing. Below is a list of them from a year's worth of Google (and other search engine) searches that brought people to the essay. I changed everything to lowercase, sorted, eliminated duplicates. I also corrected some misspellings, because those were creating spurious dupes; I'm sure I've missed a lot. (E.g., one I corrected is the ever popular athiest, which causes atheists to make jokes like, "I'm athier than you!" "Are not!" "Are too!" That one never gets old.) (Okay, it does get old.) Even with all of that, it's still a long list.
a atheists christmas
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american jews celebrate christmas
american who celebrate christmas
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young atheist who had cancer
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Baltimore!
We're in Baltimore, meeting our granddaughter Emily* at last, seeing some sights, and eating as much seafood as I can find. Having great time, etc.
I hope the pics turn out well. If so, I'll post them somewhere -- here, on my Web site, or perhaps as an album on the Kodak site.
* She's the sweetest, most intelligent, most delightful, and prettiest granddaughter anyone could want. Thank you for asking.
I hope the pics turn out well. If so, I'll post them somewhere -- here, on my Web site, or perhaps as an album on the Kodak site.
* She's the sweetest, most intelligent, most delightful, and prettiest granddaughter anyone could want. Thank you for asking.
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