The Race to Insanity and Beyond!

[Caduceus]

...and a thermonuclear warhead.

EDIT - Battlestar Gallactica reference. BTW Entertainment Weekly gave BS a B rating for last week's show. Which is pretty good!

[Kamog]

That Star Wars movie was funny. They did a good job on the light sabre effects and they put in a lot of effort into the backgrounds and costumes to make them look similar to the real ones.

The Matrix movie from the same site was really funny, too!

Thanks for posting the link, Will.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

From the humor forum on Baen:
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Subject: THINGS IT TOOK YEARS TO LEARN
Author: Keith Golgart
Date: 30 Jan 2005 06:39 AM
THINGS IT TOOK YEARS TO LEARN


1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. (I wish I had!)

7. Never lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 21

10. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

11. Your friends love you anyway

12. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
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[TerranC]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
12. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

So true, so true.

[bearclaw]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
9. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 21 [/qoute]

Hey! I think that a person's birthday is always a time of celebration. I'm gonna be 33 this year and I fully expect a grand production. And to be fair, I treat others the same way on their birthday.... except for the ONE time I forgot my wife's...

Which wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the fact that I remembered George Lucas's which happens to be the day after hers...

Not good. So not good.

[Kamog]

The two squares A and B on the checkerboard are the same shade of gray. Can you believe it?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Seen it before. Tested it in a paint program, if I remember right. You'd be amazed how much effect shading has on our eyes.

[David E. Gervais]

That trick is done by the 50% rule.. Make a white square, make a gray square that is 50% darker than the white one, then cast a shadow over these that is also set at 50% darker. the white square in the shadow will be the same as the dark square in the light. the dark square in the shadow will also be 50% darker and therefore create the illusion that there is a shadow. add a soft edge to the shadow and it is even more convincing.

It is a neat effect though. Escher would be proud.

Cheers!

[Caduceus]

bearclaw said:
except for the ONE time I forgot my wife's...
*snip*...I remembered George Lucas's which happens to be the day after hers...

Dude, that is so a jewelry mistake.

[David E. Gervais]

May 13th is a good day, so is 4 days after Mr. Lucas's.

Cheers!