"In my 0s" is confusing in the blog's typeface. Oh well!
Someone's been reading The Editors. "Spikes on his eyeballs!"
In my 0s
I never listen to the radio, but today I happened to, and heard a station advertising itself as playing "the hits of the 90s, the 2Ks, and today!" Is "the 2Ks" something actual people are calling the last decade? I guess it was too much to hope that "the noughties" would catch on.
Man, you guys don't want to talk about dinosaurs at all, do you? I should have known.
You should have made the post about something else and the first comment about dinosaurs.
Teo ought to be able to find a Dinosaur Comic on the subject of dinosaurs, anyway.
We're all just waiting for teo to show up and link to some comics. Non-dinosaur comics.
He gets the Brontosaurus story wrong, IIRC. Skull of a camarosaur, not a stegosaurus.
He repeats the myth that the stegasaurus had an extra brain in its tail.
We don't know the name of the penultimate dinosaur because it was a redactyl.
Deinonychus! I remember when Jurassic Park came out I was wondering why they picked Velociraptor instead of one of the larger Dromaeosaurids. I was such a dork when I was 8.
At that time my favorite dinosaur was Deinocheirus because I read something about how only its arms had been discovered but they were huge and had terrifying claws and it must have been some giant scary awful predator. Apparently now some people think it was a vegetarian.
Overall, pretty funny, but it could have used more battle rap.
This reminds me a little of a comedy bit about ranking planets that ran on the Dr. Demento show on March 22, 1992. I know this, because that is apparently the only time it ever played. Yeah, yeah, Dr. Demento. I'm pretty sure admitting to having listened is deprecated.
it could have used more battle rap
I'll pull the trigger on the M/tch batsignal.
Awesome. He gets it basically right, despite a few mistakes mentioned upthread. (I was really into dinosaurs as a kid.) The deinonychus part was especially good.
15: Huh, Wikipedia tells me he wrote his Reed thesis on Wozzeck and Pelléas et Mélisande. Did not know that. I think he graduated the year before Emerson got there.
There are two types of commenters: the ones who watch linked videos, and the ones who see that something's a video and instantly hit "back".
Oh, I guess you guys want comics. Here.
20: Since teo refrained, here and here.
edit: By the way, as in all my comics, you can just read 'velociraptor' as referring not to the beagle-sized dinosaur, but rather as a generic term for whichever dromeosaurid most closely resembles the Jurassic Park animals. That is, something between a deinonychus and a utahraptor.
I don't know anyone who takes the trouble to rhyme weird insults.
I guess it was too much to hope that "the noughties" would catch on.
If TV clip shows are anything to go by, it has in the UK.
I took Biology of Dinosaurs as my third and last science distribution requirement in college. The professor was obsessed -- obsessed! -- with stegosaurus. The two final meetings of the class were devoted to it.
24: Please tell me they found the professor at the natural history musuem with a bottle of wine, a iPod full of Barry White and no pants.
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Oil Rain in Louisiana ...video at Agonist
Of course not just crude oil, but methyl-methyl-poly-benzene and the cast of thousands of goodies
I watched Gasland the other night.
Small natural gas wells have an exemption from EPA regulation. There have been tens of thousands drilled in the last five years, polluting the water supplies nationwide. Cut your throat stuff.
At least I don't have to worry about rain until November. but I am thinking Dallas is too close. Does Austin get moisture off the Gulf?
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I'm pretty sure, barring a hurricane, that it can't rain oil, bob. I'd like to blame BP for that video but it's more likely GM.
27:And what effect do all the tons of dispersants have on miscibility?
28: The same effect adding lime flavor to Bud Light has on Drinkability™?
Gasland is highly recommended, if only for the multiple scenes of home-owners putting matches to their running kitchen faucets and generating fireballs.
All concerned went whoa cool.
The PTB swear that anyone who can set their tap (mostly from wells) water on fire will get free bottled water. I am so like reassured.
31: Thanks for the reminder on Gasland, bob. I heard the filmmaker interviewed here but forgot to add it to the Netflix "Saved" queue until just now when you mentioned it.
Are decomposed dinosaurs part of fossil fuels? Because if so, then it would be raining dinosaurs. Cool.
raining dinosaurs
Distinguished members of the board, I believe I've stumbled upon just the rebranding effort we've been searching for.
Here is FDL on the "raining oil" The videos aren't well sourced, but apparently Mobile June 22. This has links to research, including the May Russian analysis that said America must nuke the hole or die.
Shrugs. Oil + NG + Corexit = complicated stuff.
32:Good link. At one point the filmmaker asked an environmentalist, 50ish woman chemist or something, how many toxic sites there were in all. "How...How many? How many sites? In all?" she says, laughing "uhh, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands?"
I am not in NW FW, but we have signs all over my neighborhood about finding the best deal when the gas company wants to drill in our backyards.
33: Sadly, decomposed men are not part of fossil fuels.
Here ya go from a link at oildrum, and I am still waiting for the experts there to jump in.
Comment by "trundle"
Water and the volatile organics in the oil (including the various hydrocarbons which form part of the oil mixture) may form complexes known as azeotropes. These complexes are very common in synthetic organic chemical reactions when distilling solvents from those reactions, including when water is used during the synthetic procedure. The azeotropic mixtures actually evaporate at a temperature lower than water so such complexes can selectively evaporate. Water has a high vapor pressure and will tend to accentuate the evaporation of the azeotrope which tends (but doesn't always) have a lower vapor pressure than water.
the May Russian analysis that said America must nuke the hole or die.
What could possibly go wrong?
IANAC, but I think the amount of oil that would evaporate and condense at the same temperatures as the water is very small. There is also much more water than oil. The guys in that video are of a kin with this woman.
Gasland is highly recommended
I haven't seen it, but a friend saw what was probably the same airing bob did, and agrees. Stunning stuff; his wife apparently couldn't take it after about half an hour -- too mind-bogglingly not funny --and left the room.
I heard a fair amount of it recounted; it sounds very much worth seeing.
26: Small natural gas wells have an exemption from EPA regulation
So why the hell is this? Given that I've heard at least three talking heads / pundits / opinion makers in the last couple of weeks, since Obama's Oval Office address, point to domestic natural gas as cheap, efficient, and environmentally friendly, now might be a good time to revisit EPA regulations regarding natural gas.
Seriously.
Man, the video in 39 is awesome. Indeed, we as a nation have to ask, what the hell is going on? What the hell is going on with this sprinkler?
Natural gas is born free, and everywhere he is stuck under shale!
We never saw these rainbows 20 years ago because we were disconnected from the promise the Lord made to us. (I was a child and therefore saw them; thanks Jesus!)
Is that video a parody? I can never tell anymore.
Is <insert Republican politician> a parody? I can never tell anymore.
Everyone be calm. I've spotted a Juggalo. It won't attack if we all back away slowly and avoid smudging its face paint.
Perhaps I should have read more than just the last comment.
Quiz it, sizzaid snizzoop dizzog. But I wizzuz dizzeafned by the vizzizuvuzelizzas.
I'm not sure I understand why AWB provided us with the link in 48.
Returning to the dinosaur theme...
Utahraptor: the most salacious of all raptors.
The blog post underneath has some good advice for single people, too.
44 is a pitch perfect parody of the kind of thing I heard every week in Sunday School when I was a kid. It's deja vu all over again!