I’m still getting some of the behind-the-scenes bugs out of this current rebooting and recycling of komplexify. So while you wait, here are some quickies recycled off my Facebook feed.
Fun fact: if you assign the integers from -8 to +8 to the letters
J H M L C N V T U R I S E Y A P O,
then the sum of the letters in the name of each planet in the solar system gives its location relative to the sun.
For example, EARTH = 4+6+1-1-7 = 3 is the 3rd planet from the sun. It even works on Sun, Pluto, and Eris!
In preparation for its rebooted version of Fox, I watched all 13 original episodes of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos.
If you watch it without the sound, it’s about a amiable dude with a thing for corduroy blazers and turtlenecks cruising through the universe (and history, and the microverse) in a dandelion-shaped spaceship.
If, on the other hand, you merely listen to it without watching, it’s about the Matrix’s Agent Smith pontificating about science while listening to the Blade Runner soundtrack.
The thing I find most shocking about Miley Cyrus’s performance at the MTV Music Video Awards is the fact that MTV still plays music videos, apparently.
October 4 saw a once-in-a-century blizzard — Winter Storm Atlas — land smack-dab in South Dakota, stranding people in their homes without water and electricity for days and decimating the states cattle population. After digging ourselves out of the snow, the the family took a tour of the town to see the aftermath of the blizzard.
You know how, in the wake of some natural disaster, evangelical types come out and say it’s because God hates gays or feminists or Helvetica font or whatever? After seeing the devastation caused by Blizzard Atlas, I decided that if God hates anything, it must be trees.
The Ladybug, Butterfly, and I typically spent most Saturdays at the movies as part of a PTA fundraiser that let’s us view recycled movies dirt cheap. This semester we saw:
- Hotel Transylvania, which is about an undead dad who is overprotective of his free spirited daughter. Or as the elder Ladybug puts it, “non-fiction.”
- Paranorman, an animated movie featuring zombies slightly scarier than the ones in World War Z.
- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2, which I can only was the end result of a Hollywood executive who thought something like: “Man, I sure know a one HELL of a lot of food puns. I wonder if I can make an entire movie around that concept?”
- Bolt, in which John Travolta believes he has superpowers granted to him by a higher technological power, but in fact is just a deluded mammal. So, an autobiography, I guess.
- Wreck It Ralph, the story of computer programs who become sentient and have adventures whenever humans aren’t looking. Tron meets Toy Story… “Tron Story,” if you will.
- Frankenweenie, which was amusing only in the fact that the Butterfly persisted in calling it “Frankenstein’s Weenie.”
- Gnomeo and Juliet. A movie with a soundtrack consisting entirely of Elton John songs all about forbidden love between gnomes. Oddly enough, if in their previous sentence you change “gnomes” to “fairies, ” it goes from accurate movie description to entirely tasteless joke. (I am ashamed of myself…)
Clearly I’m a mathematician: while waiting in line for Mall Santa when I see this
However, rather than think “Holy Crap that’s expensive,” I think “Cool. Fibonacci Santas.”