Physicist Richard Feynman’s last hurrah was explaining to the American public, simply and directly, in 30 seconds, why the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up. Doing that opened up the question of why, if Morton Thiokol knew the O-ring material would be affected by the cold of that January 28 morning, did NASA decide to proceed with the launch?
http://youtu.be/UCLgRyKvfp0
“Sorry Miss, but we’ve got orders. No gorgeous women allowed on TV, protesting Wall Street. Only misfits, aging hippies, and street people.”
Does the voice on the airport PA in this song sound like somebody to you? It sure does to me. When this song came out, in 1967, he was about a year away from being hired as one of the writers on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
And here he is, on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
I’ve had a Weed Eater gasoline leaf blower for 10 or 12 years. The spark plug won’t come out anymore and the muffler is rattling around loose under the partially melted plastic body, but last fall it still started and ran. Knowing that its days are numbered, and with the New England autumn coming on fast, I’ve been looking for a replacement. Today I bought a Poulan Pro BVM210VS, on sale at Lowes for $90.
I got it home, installed the tube, put in some 2-stroke gas, and followed the starting instructions:
Huh? That last part wasn’t in the instructions. I stared at the cord in my hand, no longer a part of the leaf blower. So I poured the gas back into the can and drove back to Lowes to return the Poulan Pro. When I got home again I saw that the old Weed Eater — also a Poulan product, by the way — still had some gas in it, and the thing started right up.
OK, I admit it. I laughed out loud at today’s Harry Bliss cartoon. It’s a well-worn subject for humor, but the drawing makes it funny.
This is welcome news from Netflix. Qwikster is dead before arrival.
Dear Douglas,
It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make things more difficult, so we are going to keep Netflix as one place to go for streaming and DVDs.
This means no change: one website, one account, one password…in other words, no Qwikster.
While the July price change was necessary, we are now done with price changes.
We’re constantly improving our streaming selection. We’ve recently added hundreds of movies from Paramount, Sony, Universal, Fox, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, MGM and Miramax. Plus, in the last couple of weeks alone, we’ve added over 3,500 TV episodes from ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, USA, E!, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, ABC Family, Discovery Channel, TLC, SyFy, A&E, History, and PBS.
We value you as a member, and we are committed to making Netflix the best place to get your movies & TV shows.
Respectfully,
The Netflix Team
