Archive for November, 2009

10 Reasons to Put Humans Back on the Moon

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Senior Science Writer 08 December 2003 Robert Roy BrittThere is no promise that NASA will ever get a directive to send astronauts back to the Moon. Nor is it clear if humans will venture to Mars. But that President Bush might be mulling those grand plans had scientists around the world . Many ...

COBOL Programmer

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

There was once a COBOL programmer in the mid to late 1990s. For the sake of this story, we'll call him Jack. After years of being taken for granted and treated as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers and Client/Server programmers and website developers, Jack was finally getting some ...

Laws of Japanese Animation

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Version 4.0 Compiled and edited by Ryan Shellito (rshellit@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu) Darrin Bright (dbright@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu) 1 - Law of Metaphysical Irregularity The normal laws of physics do not apply. 2 - Law of Differentiated Gravitation Whenever someone or something jumps, is thrown, or otherwise is rendered airborne, gravity is reduced ...

The Farmer and the Congressman

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked ...