Thanks to a combination of Colin’s jetlag, drunkenness, and illness, he’s mostly mute in this episode. Thankfully, our most excellent friend Karl Kornfeld was our guest, and filled in the blanks with rambling narratives that… made no sense.
On this bizarre entry to the New Year, we discuss AT&T’s promise (fingers crossed?) to maintain net neutrality for two years in exchange for an approval to their merger with Bell South, the baffling idiocy yet exhibited by our nation’s administration concerning the age of the Grand Canyon, and the PS3’s hilarious (to me) lack of sales, despite a console ’shortage’ of 200,000 in the whole of the United States.
On Boston in Brief, we talk about Boston Media Makers Movie Making (yes, Karl can say it 3 times fast) and MIT Mashup Camp 3… which has nothing to do with musical or movie mashups and everything to do with… hacking, programming, and networking. Huh.Â
NOTE: There is, somewhere, one ‘F-bomb’, dropped by yours truly. Sorry about that.
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Actually, the Flood in the Noah’s Ark story probably did happen since there are at least 87 different Flood myths across the world. The general accepted theory is that it was a story that may have occurred as a way for early man to explain a massive melting of the glacial ice at the end of the last Ice Age.
But to say the Grand Canyon was made by Noah’s Ark is insane.
The PS3 launch has sucked, granted. I’ll be interested to see how the consoles do next Christmas as a better gauge of the consoles success. As much as I want one, I won’t buy one until the price drops significantly. It has been a cluster fuck. I’d still rather have one than an XBox360.
Actually, snakes can hear even though they do not have outer ears. The sound hit the skin and vibrates a small bone under the skin of their head. These vibrations are then transmitted to the cochlea and then to the brain, just like in mammals. So apart from lack of what we would call an “ear”, snakes hear very much like humans do.
Damn you, Charlie Brown’s ‘Cyclopedia… damn you and your misinformation on cobras…
Many ‘floods’ have occurred in the past. And it is certainly feasible that it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. I mean, we had two solid weeks of rain this past fall.
And it is certainly possible that some person decided to build himself a boat, and even take a few animals aboard.
We can even separate Noah from the flood itself, and examine the scientific merit of the claim that a cataclysmic flood created the Canyon. They can’t. Floods don’t work like that. A flash flood will erode sand and make silt deposits and undermine highways, not dig out solid rock to a depth of 6,000 feet.
Any child with a 2nd-grade education* knows all that, which is why I am pissed off.
*Excepting educations from Dover, Pennsylvania and Kansas. Fuckers did some damage I am sure before they got slapped down.
Although it may not compare with Frangelico and Jameson, my favorite drink is 1 part Amaretto, 1 part Vodka, and 1 part milk. Garnish with Nutmug. Yum. It’s certainly better than Absinthe and Mountain Dew.
Dude, that sounds somewhat vile to me.
Best drink is Celtic War Party
1 oz Jagermeister® herbal liqueur
1 oz Crown Royal® Canadian whisky
1/2 oz Goldschlager® cinnamon schnapps
Mix and drop into a pint of Guinness® stout, drink fast.
Why can’t you hippie fuckers stick to the basics? Guinness, whiskey, baileys, or any combination of the three? Where’s this fucking schnapps crap coming from?
I drink girlie drinks. I am secure in my manhood.
So what does that mean, Lite Beers?
I’ve never liked beer. I drink Amaretto, Baileys, wine, and various things mixed with coke. Although I’m acquiring a taste for bourbon.
From now on, your name is Sally
I was thinking she looks more like a Lucy…
Sally works with wine (old-fashioned name), and Lucy works with the Bailey’s… but for a whore who’ll drink anything with coke at some college frosh rave…. Tara. or Jessica.
Lindsay
Paris.
Well, except that I think Paris is kinda hot now.
When she was just a spoiled little bitch, I didn;t think she was attractive at all. Now that I’ve seen her be a total skank, magically she’s somewhat hot.
Go figure.
Backing up a ways…
It appears that the Grand Canyon story was at least partially false:
http://nationalparkstraveler.typepad.com/national_parks_traveler/2007/01/god_geology_and.html
David Barna, chief of communications for the Park Service: “Restrictions about what they can say just is not true,” Barna told me. “It’s in our Management Policies, that we teach the scientific method.”
Though the park bookstore does sell a book that states the canyon was created by the noacian flood, it is in the “inspirational books” section alongside poetry and books that discuss native American storys about the canyon.
That makes a bit more sense.
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