Comment Particle Business (Score 1) 210
Obligatory post of my "Particle Business" music video shot at Fermilab
Comment Re:Which is what it's good for. (Score 1) 141
The key to Twitter is this: If you follow people that you don't find interesting, you won't find Twitter interesting. If you're picky about who you follow, it can be an information junkie's best friend.
Please mod up this kind soul who gets it. Twitter is a Swiss Army Knife. Don't complain about the toothpick when you should be using the scissors. Use the tool how you like.
@funky49
Comment Blackberry Playbook (Score 1) 158
I was at a Blackberry event earlier this week (stuffed myself mad with shrimp, clams & crab legs!) and noticed that the Playbook could run multiple environments and not just BB6. One of the other environments was Webkit. Well Chrome is made from Webkit and on Monday I got a CR-48 from Google so I asked the guy if the Playbook would be able to run ChromeOS. He hemmed and hawed and I interjected that I had to ask something good because my boss was in the crowd. He ended up telling the crowd to watch for upcoming news about what exactly the Playbook could run.
I was amused.
Comment Fermilab has its own rap video! (Score 1) 260
and I should know... I'm the rapper!
Comment No Wonder! (Score 1) 824
There is no placebo effect. I just get mad at a button not doing as its marked.
Comment Fast Learners! (Score 1) 4
Those ex-communists learn the ways of capitalism quick! Supply of orbit-capable craft go down? Price must go up!
Submission + - Fermilab Battles Back in Rap! (youtube.com)
funky49 writes: In the summer of 2008, a hip-hop tribute to CERN’s massive new European particle collider took the web by storm. Since then, “The Large Hadron Rap” has garnered more than 5.7 million views on Youtube. But today, the “O.G.” of particle colliders, Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois battles back with it’s own hip-hop song and music video.
"Particle Business" highlights the quest to discover how the universe evolved and the David and Goliath-like competition of discovery between the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN in Europe, and Fermilab, outside of Chicago, IL. Their goal, the Higgs-Boson, a fundamental particle thought to give matter mass, theorized but as yet unable to be measured. Particle Business combines a phat hip-hop beat with lyrics about particle physics, limits on science funding, the competitive-collaboration that exists in science research and urging people to watch television like Mr. Wizard's World and Carl Sagan's Cosmos instead of the entertainment of MTV.
"Particle Business" highlights the quest to discover how the universe evolved and the David and Goliath-like competition of discovery between the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN in Europe, and Fermilab, outside of Chicago, IL. Their goal, the Higgs-Boson, a fundamental particle thought to give matter mass, theorized but as yet unable to be measured. Particle Business combines a phat hip-hop beat with lyrics about particle physics, limits on science funding, the competitive-collaboration that exists in science research and urging people to watch television like Mr. Wizard's World and Carl Sagan's Cosmos instead of the entertainment of MTV.
Comment Re:MS needs to be thinking about the 720 (Score 1) 169
Why would the stronger hardware aspect of the PS3 all of the sudden start attracting gamers away from the 360?
The trouncing would come due to the PS3's stronger horsepower being reflected in games while the X360 games stagnate. Since there is 'room to grow' in terms of BR versus DVD discs and SPUs to be tapped on the PS3, it is more future-proofed than the X360. As Microsoft wants to recoup development costs for the Xbox consoles, they will stick with the X360 longer which will make the PS3 look more and more favorable.
The trouncing would come due to the PS3's stronger horsepower being reflected in games while the X360 games stagnate. Since there is 'room to grow' in terms of BR versus DVD discs and SPUs to be tapped on the PS3, it is more future-proofed than the X360. As Microsoft wants to recoup development costs for the Xbox consoles, they will stick with the X360 longer which will make the PS3 look more and more favorable.
Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 226
Also, eat yogurt while you are wandering around. Just like Michael Westin from Burn Notice.
Comment ET? (Score 5, Funny) 194
Just as long as they don't make a movie out of that ET the Extra-Terrestrial Atari game. That one sucked!
Comment Re:No batteries = (Score 2, Funny) 75
Thanks Joe Biden!
Comment This wasn't an April Fool's Day gag? (Score 2, Interesting) 440
I first heard about the case being dismissed on NPR on April 1st. I was assuming it was an April Fool's Day gag that all the news outlets were picking up.
Comment Re:Yup (Score 1) 230
"When my parents built their house 29 years ago the ISDN and cable stopped 2 blocks away. Now 30 years later how far is it? Why 2 blocks away, of course!
Nobody has laid any lines or upgraded shit around here in years because it might hurt the short term stock price if they actually spent a dime"
Sorry bro, tell that to my 20/5 FIOS connection at home.
After 30 years, perhaps you should move from your parents home so you can have better internet connectivity?
funky49
Submission + - Free album to promote Tampa's MOSI (rapbassador.com)
funky49 writes: "I've released a online album to promote my hometown science museum, Tampa's Museum of Science and Industry! Your ears will be treated to hip-hop, house, electro-breaks and punkish music with lyrics inspired by MOSI and their new Body Worlds exhibit! Included in the free download are lyrics and pictures that accompany each song. Please enjoy the sounds at http://www.rapbassador.com/
The following is the tracklisting to further entice you:
01 mad science
02 thats not IMAX
03 the future is calling
04 your body (is a world)
05 MOSI got the party
06 still nerdy
07 still nerdy [chopped & funked mix]
08 starblazer [2009 mixdown]"
Comment Re:Subs don't always use SONAR (Score 1) 622
It's happened before.
It will happen again.
(BSG reference FYI)
