You can never go back

After finishing the Battlestar Galactica/Caprica series, I just had to go wach the original.  It was really cool when I was 7.  Now it just hurts.  I had to make myself laugh at the second season so I wouldn't keep thinking "Make it stooooooooop!"  But I have this problem that makes me finish seasons.  I did see a bunch of cool references along the way, and they really screwed things up for another show that used to be cool.  I recognized a voice on the Halloween episode... and now KITT has the voice of Norman the Clown.

Lloyd Bridges cannot go from Steve McCroskey to Commander Cain.  I kept expecting an auto-pilot to inflate on the bridge of the Pegasus.

Shots

I just realized that a blog is a great place to keep track of the shots I invent.  I have for many years been thinking of alcoholic drinks, mostly as puns and such, cuz why not.  But I don't bother making them and I forget.  So here goes...

My first (that I actually bothered to make) recipe:

Canadian Mistress
1/2 Canadian Mist (or any whisky/-ey, really, it's a pun)
1/2 maple syrup (and whenever I say maple syrup I mean 100% real)
Serve warm.  It helps to nuke the syrup in the shot glass before pouring in the whisky.
It's like a Beaver Tail/Canadian Dancer, but way sweeter, with greater effect.

I like to loudly order Buttery Nipples at bars cuz it embarrasses my better half.

Goddamnit is my copilot

I need something that will help me navigate my vehicle in unfamiliar places with nothing but winding roads and trees everywhere.  Have they invented that yet?

Why, I didn't know that! (sip)

Shock! TEA-Party Members Aren't Knuckle-Dragging Ignoramuses!

Via Smallest Minority.

Poor kid, spilled his chocolate shake all over his shirt

Via SMBC, another very wrongness.  Which is why I'm still laughing.  And why I keep going back.

Intolerance

As is usual, one thing lead to another while web surfing and I'm on the Wikipedia page for XIT Ranch.  It mentions that low cattle prices, rustlers and wolves helped lead to the ranch being unsuccessful and sold off after ~3 decades.  The article also mentions another ranch (J A) that is still successful after ~130 years.  Then the article shows the ranch rules:

The XIT Ranch had a number of rules including the following:

• No employee was allowed to carry any weapons for offense or self-defense.
• Gambling or card playing of any description was strictly prohibited.
• No liquor or intoxicating beverages were allowed to employees during their time of service.
• No employees were allowed to hunt wild game on any of the XIT horses.
• Employees were not allowed to own any of the horses or cattle on the ranch.

Which wolves were they talking about?  The WCTU?  Gun bigots?  Competition for employees?  Nope, couldn't see that failure coming.

Mock him mercilessly, and never stop

This is hilarious.  A tribute to His Highness's general, and thorough, incompetence and pettiness.  This time via the National Parks Service.

This warms my heart

‘Insolent’ Czechs look to coal for energy. (via Samizdata)

Burn, baby, burn!  I hope their recent efforts to increase nuclear power generation go smoothly. I'm thinking somewhere along their western border...

Tar and feathers would be a good start.

Autistic high school senior and other mentally handicapped students entrapped in drug sting.  Those cops, and the school district that still supports them, committed full blown child abuse.  My heart goes out to the victims.  I still have trouble believing that police actions which actively try to create criminals out of law abiding citizens are even legal.

Paul Krugman, future Obama Information Minister

Good news!  The Nobel prize-winning economist who never gets anything right just said that Obamacare is not failing.  Any Dems who still have faith in it should be soiling themselves.  I'll add "MSS" to his many deservedly insulting middle names.

Pi is dead! Long live Tau! Or maybe Eta...

OK, pi will never really die.  It's too ingrained in society.  But, as a practicing engineer, pi never really felt quite right.  It was annoying, but I didn't know how to explain it well other than "we work with radius, not diameter".  Then last night I found the Tau Manifesto, which articulated the issue quite nicely.

Don't worry folks.  There's always room for pi!  And who couldn't like Tau Day?  I mean, that's 2 pi!  June 28 at 3:19.  Dig in.

Golf funnies

Of course Tam can pull funny out of a hat with a hole in it.

And this classic. (thanks to DaveS, provider of 30-cal thereapy)

The sim of all fears

Tom Clancy --> The Sum of All Fears --> me googling the quote and mistyping it "sim of fears" --> which got me thinking about AGW

Why, you may take the most unethical businessman, the most fraudulent scientist or the most audacious politician, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sim of all fears.

Yes... ManBearPig.

I have been working in computer simulations since the late 90s, when ManBearPig was first captured in a grainy video taken on Bluff Creek and easily dismissed as fraudulent based on already existing data.  We have a saying in the sim world: Never trust the sim.  If it works, you missed something.

Oh, and you can always make it do what you want if you fudge enough of the inputs.

Tom Clancy (4/12/47 - 10/1/13)

His Wikipedia bio here.