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I Slept, Sue Me


26 May

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MythBusters was a re-run last night, which is a good thing, considering I fell asleep at 8:30pm. Next week will be a new episode, though.

My habit of recording American Idol and only watching the performances meant that I had no idea the final performance night would be Tuesday (it has been on a Wednesday Thursday schedule all season) so we missed that, and then chose not to watch the results show. After all, simply having msn.com open means I see who won every couple minutes.

Things are crazy at our house, but hopefully we’ll find a new normal soon.

MythBusters (ep 166)


19 May

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I love tire spikes. However, I thought the point of spy car spikes was that they were concealable (not realistic, I know) and there’s no way Jamie’s spikes could have been hidden.

I liked that the stationary gun was confirmed. I’d bet that if Adam had a second round with it, one where he was already familiar with how it worked, he could get results very similar to the aimed gun.

 10 degrees is not that cold. You’re above 0. I did feel bad about the blizzard. But I loved that the spinning bullet was confirmed under the correct conditions.

MythBusters (ep 165)


12 May

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I love it when they do a whole bunch of mini-myths, like the sound effect section with Adam and Jamie. It’s funny that they have to bring in an “expert” when it comes to the punches, as their expertise is with movie special effects. I guess special effects and sound effects guys don’t talk a lot.

Physics thought experiments are also fun.Newtonwas a genius, and you really wouldn’t believe how well his laws hold up to just about everything. However, I don’t think it ever occurred to him to take jet engines and flame resistant material into account.

MythBusters (ep 164)


05 May

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I’m not really certain how ancient torpedoes were busted. They tested two designs which they then didn’t use. How surprised could they be that the full scale testing didn’t go according to plan? Remember when they used to try and build things the way they would have been built in the myth? And when they discovered their problem was too much power, why didn’t they switch to the deep V style?

I like the wine bottle machine gun, but I think champagne would have given better results. I know that wasn’t the myth, but “machine gun” wasn’t the myth either.

MythBusters (ep 163)


28 Apr

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What I loved about the swimming through bubbles myth was not that the myth was plausible, but for different reasons than they expected, but that the different reasons were so much simpler than the original hypothesis. Adam and Jamie thought that maybe you couldn’t swim through bubbles because they changed the water density- no, its because they cause the water to move. Simple.

As for splitting the tree, they may have put the smallest amount of explosive that would detonate in each bag, but 25lbs of explosive, really? Try 10lbs before you tell me you used as little as possible.

MythBusters (ep 162)


21 Apr

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This was not the first time the Mythbusters took on walking on water. The first was in the Ninja special. Both times they made ridiculous shoes to see if increases the surface area of the foot would work. Unsurprisingly, they got the same result this time as last time- people can not walk on water- not even cute little acrobats.

The Build Team provided an important public service announcement tonight. If you are anywhere near an explosion, get behind something, anything, really. As long as you have something to break the shockwave around you, your chances of surviving increase dramatically.

Friends and Food


21 Apr

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No Mythbusters entry until later this evening. Last night I went out and had a wonderful dinner with an amazing group of friends. We talked about dogs and books and computer games and food.

We took part in Seattle Restaurant Week (which this spring lasts 2 weeks), so we were able to go to a fancy restaurant, order off a special menu and pay a lower price than usual. Of course, we were at a fondue place and they don’t have the cheese fondue on their special menu, so we paid a little extra a got some of that to.

Mythbusters (ep 161)


14 Apr

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All I have to say about “blue ice” is that if enough is going mechanically wrong on a plane for some to fall, the airline is actually going to have more worries than the off chance that the blue ice kills someone or causes significant property damage.

Methane and fire do not mix. Even if you do not get the Bourne explosion, the combo melts your house. MELTS YOUR HOUSE. The methane made everything flammable. The flowers didn’t so much turn to ash as melt. It looked like a scene out of Backdraft. Definitely DO NOT try this at home.

Mythbusters on Colbert


12 Apr

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Mythbusters on Colbert! I loved this interview because it reminded me of something I noticed when we saw Mythbusters Live- Jamie doesn’t like to talk, or Adam just likes to talk so much more. Except for the brief bit about his dog getting confused by the MI masks, Jamie didn’t talk. It was all Adam.

I am kind of hoping they’ll use that footage of Jamie’s dog, though, and do a myth about how dogs recognize people. Those of us who’ve had a dog go blind know how much they use their eyes, but most people think its all scent.

Mythbuster (ep 160)


07 Apr

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Mythbusters is back!

Amazingly detailed masks fool people, even people who know you well, from all but the closest distances, as long as you keep quiet. I just wonder, for this Mission Impossible myth, how would one get the detailed measurements needed to make the mask? You can’t exactly casually measure someone’s face with calipers.

You can’t shoot a merry-go-round to make it spin. I don’t care that the myth was busted, it came from a Clive Owen movie, and that’s all that’s important.

At the same time, you can shoot a gun away from your opponent. Good to know.

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