Barack Hussein Obama II is now the 44th President of the United States of America.
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List: Books and Movies for after 2012
Posted on January 15, 2009 by themicrocosm
So, I am reading this book called A Canticle for Leibowitz. It is a great PA (Post-Apocalyptic) story about a world that has survived the Fire Deluge (Nuclear War) and exists in future 3174 Utah. The world has reverted in a way to a similar situation as the days of medieval times. There are monasteries, tribal [...]
Filed under: Adventure, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Literature, Society | Tagged: 2012, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Apocalypse, end of the world, Mad Max, Nuclear War, Post Apocalyptic books and movies | 2 Comments »
We need to have more kids!
Posted on November 18, 2008 by themicrocosm
Just so you will understand, the numbers represent fertility rates. The replacement rate for fertility is 2.1.
I thought about getting all scientific on you, but I don’t have time to do all the research (I don’t even have time to not use contractions). However, I want to discuss something of dire importance to our [...]
Filed under: Economy, Science, Society | Tagged: birth rate, children, demography, fertility rate, human capital, population, population growth, world population | 3 Comments »
Will the LHC be the end of me??
Posted on September 10, 2008 by drkllpnt
Today was special. The Large Hadron Collider fired it’s first beams this morning around 3:36 AM Central time.
That begs the questions – what the heck is the Large Hadron Collider? Which James Bond movie did they pull this idea from? How dangerous is 14 TeV? Who the F%^# cares??
Filed under: Experiments, News, Science, Society, Technology | Tagged: black holes, CERN, dark matter, doomsday, electron volts, James Bond, Javascript, Klingon, Large Hadron Collider, magnetic monopolies, physics, quarks, Stranglets, the end of, vacuum bubbles | 10 Comments »
My Summer Olympics thoughts
Posted on August 24, 2008 by The Hazean
As the resident sports’ blogger here at The Microcosm, I thought I would muse on some thoughts I had during the last few weeks of the summer games.
We watched the Olympics every night, despite being in transit from Baton Rouge to Akron, Ohio, during part of the games. We watched in Murfreesboro, Tenn., on our [...]
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Mistakes were made (but not by me)
Posted on August 22, 2008 by drkllpnt
Several days have past since my last (real) blog post, actually if you don’t count the TDK Prologue post, It has been mid-July since my last contribution… I’ve been extremely busy at work, I suffered from a bad case of writer’s block, I lost the ability to read or write… No excuses actually… or [...]
Filed under: Experiments, Internet, Society, psychology | Tagged: attention span, books, cognitive dissonance, mistakes, self-justification | 6 Comments »
Hell’s Kitchen season finale
Posted on July 8, 2008 by The Hazean
I think I just heard a collective “Damn it!” from The Microcosm faithful at the end of the Hell’s Kitchen season four finale.
No, our boy Petrozza did not win this season. Unfortunately, he fell prey to some poor organization skills and lackluster prepping in the final episode. He still made it close with some clutch [...]
Filed under: Culture, Entertainment, Food, News, Random, Society, Television | Tagged: Christina, Gordon Ramsay, Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Kitchen Season 4 Episode 15, Petrozza, season finale | 17 Comments »
Why So Serious?
Posted on July 7, 2008 by drkllpnt
That face… it’s so—just wow.. no words… the buzz around The Dark Knight has been hard to miss lately, especially as the 18th of July draws near… To quote theµcosm “Everybody and their mama is excited about this movie…” so, because I’m a lazy, lazy man… this week’s entry will just be the trailers [...]
Filed under: Entertainment, Film, Society | Tagged: Batman, Heath Ledger, Joker, lazy, Movies, The Dark Knight, Trailers | 10 Comments »
Beautiful Disaster
Posted on June 25, 2008 by drkllpnt
I have a tan.
Ok it’s more of a burn… and it hurts (a little.) I’m not referring to sunlight exposure but rather the aftermath of not one but two bridges EXPLODING in a magnificent fireball, the likes of which I have not seen in a long time, a long long time….
How? Why? yeah like [...]
Filed under: Philosophy, Random, Society | Tagged: 311, Bowling, Burning Bridges, burnt, Google, Special Pleading, Straw Man, tan | 4 Comments »
