Remember all those extra off-days I said I had saved up that I need to use before the end of the year? This is another one. I actually just woke up. It’s amazing.
The rest of 2011 should be slow around here, but starting tomorrow I’m going to kick off the now-annual year-end tradition of counting down the TedQuarters Top 10 Things of the Year. For now, enjoy this trailer for Fart Detectives by Brett from SNY’s promos department:
When I brought it up on the Podcast, you hear me first suggest Luis Castillo hit a home run into Citi Field’s second deck in left field, then take it back because I couldn’t believe my own memory. But it’s true: This actually happened. It was 2009, so I don’t think I recognized how special it was at the time. How many home runs have been hit into the second deck in left field total?
Huge hat tip to Joe.
Remember how I said a couple weeks ago about all those remaining off days I have that I need to use up before the new year? No? Well I have them, and this is one of them. Normally I’d cue up a couple more posts or something, but I’ve been spending a lot of time in front of the computer making jokes about Derek Jeter and my back kinda hurts. Plus, you know, it’s my day off:
What we tried to do, simply, was take almost all of the information we could and put it together and say ‘is the big picture consistent with there being life on Mars?’
– Astrobiologist Charlie Lineweaver.
Take a look at the lawmen
Beating up the wrong guy
Oh man! Wonder if he’ll ever know
He’s in the best-selling show…
Is the big picture consistent with there being life on Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-hharrrrs?
Seriously though, this is a reasonably interesting article right up until this part:
“It’s not important if you want to figure out what the laws of physics are and you want to talk to some intelligent aliens who could build spaceships.”
Oh, nevermind then. I thought we were talking spaceship aliens.
Back to Bowie. Call me when Martians make anything this awesome:
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