July 2011
22 posts
“We thought we were writing these really funny, smart, special shows that were...”
– Jay Kogen, writer/producer, The Simpsons (1989-92)
“Is it just me or has everybody been coughing up blood lately?”
– David Mirkin’s first joke in his stand-up routine
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Video: NASA Testing Awesome Old Spacesuits
While Nicholas de Monchaux’s recent book, Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, is now the definitive investigation of this terrain, the short video above gets at something fundamental to the space enterprise, too. Namely, it’s funny to design things for the heavens from down here on the ground. That is to say, watching a guy catch a football on...
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“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing...”
– Shakespeare
