Computer Graphics and the Moon Landing

 I found this interesting.

As I understand it, graphics card manufacturer NVidia wanted to show off their new graphics rendering so they simulated, to the finest detail, the conditions of the moon landing in order to determine whether the official photos are suspicious.

Mythbusters did a smaller/cheaper version of this experiment and you can find that here.

Do Hershey's Bars Taste Like Vomit?

Blogspot has overhauled the entire system and I have a feeling the formatting of this post will be vomit. Let's see....

I haven't had any chocolate in 1 or 2 years and I have urges...

Before that I had a strange relationship with this whole issue. I grew up loving Hershey's. Then I encountered people who said it tasted awful and I re-assessed my view. From that moment on, I started liking Hershey's less. Am I a victim of peer pressure or did I fail to question my own axioms until one day "the scales fell from my eyes"? Or is something else at work? Hard to say now.

And if my opinion of Hershey's has fallen, what kind of chocolate(s) do I consider to be superior? I would love to be able to do a chocolate taste test and get down to some facts.

JonTron - Steven Seagal

Why Sprinklers Be Like That

They do be like that sometimes.

Late Show - Regis Philbin on the Marquee

I've watched Regis Philbin countless times on TV and always enjoyed him. That said, I was trying to think of a write up to memorialize him here and haven't come up with anything. He was just a funny, likable TV presence.

This clip is cute because Regis was always trying to get to hang out with Letterman and be friends. It's nice to know it worked at least once.



"Remember Jack Paar took a hike?"

William Shatner Responds

Captain Kirk has responded to RLM's latest video here.

I have to say, I predicted it, pretty much. I said:

Captain Kirk seems to have a habit of seeing the first few seconds of a video, taking it literally, stopping it before it gets good and coming away with the worst take possible. In this video, they start out with moronic Star Trak mistakes before they get to anything substantive.

And he absolutely did that very thing.

The relevant part of the response:

I honestly haven’t watched it but someone sent me ‘the most important part of the video’ as a clip to watch because “Mike is crying because he is so upset.” (Note: I honestly don’t know if this is even in their video or if it’s from some other video of theirs but it is the two of them)

Also:

So what they are doing is using the fanbase they have cultivated into a mob of trolls to get eyeballs on their monetized videos without a care for anyone and nobody has heard of these guys but if all of their videos are getting hundred of thousands of views then they are laughing all the way to the bank!

The one thing I couldn't predict was that there would be a giant medium post "article". And another baffling thing is where Shatner gets the idea that Red Letter Media is connected to Breitbart. Bill creates so many misunderstandings, he should be on "Three's Company".

He wants to complain about online "toxicity" and "harassment"... what is it when you make unfounded accusations in writing? Every principle must apply equally to everyone. He thinks Red Letter Media incited their fans to go after him, what does he think his own fans are going to do in response to this "article"? Is this the dumbest online controversy of all-time? Isn't Social Media awesome?