Peter Vidani
January 2011
“Hey everything bagel, you don't have everything on you, so shut the fuck up.”
—Jeff Baker
“Good luck to the King’s Peach!”
—Josh Rachford
Can you teach us how to make kimchi?
Step one: Have someone prepare all of the ingredients and tell them to put them in separate containers on a table, and to project the recommended portion sizes onto a wall.
Step two: Mix everything into a jar. You don’t even have to follow the recommended portion sizes. Wear gloves. One of my gloves had a hole and it still smells like garlic only right there.
Step three: Pick a corner of the apartment you hate and leave the jar there uncovered for three days.
Step four: Eat and enjoy! Besides eating it raw, I look forward to cooking it in stew and frying it with scrambled eggs.
“Are you nervous? I could give you something for that — ohh, wait, I'm not supposed to have sex with my patients.”
—Dr. Spacemen
“If you are the leader, please press star. ASDFOHUWE98FNASUIDFNASLKDFJNASKDJFN.”
—Operator on this conference call I’m on.
In response to your photo 'I think I look like a Peter', indeed you do, but you also look like an Alex
My first name is Alex. I go by my middle name, Peter. Just kidding, not even true.
Funny you should say that though, because my brother’s name is Alex. Also not true. My dad’s name is Alex. Nope.
Music
D Train
D Train - Music (DJ Abdel)
Hold On
Spellbound
Spellbound - Hold On
Ideas For New Yorker Cartoons:
A man is playing a game on his phone while surgeons operate on his open chest.
Another gift from me to New Yorker with plenty more on the way.
Ideas For New Yorker Cartoons:
A group therapy session has eight or so people sitting in chairs forming a circle. One of them is a horse wearing a necktie.
I started a new blog today. Not sure how often I’ll update.
GitHub: Mind Control with Frickin Lasers
github.com
Several months ago I hosted a GitHub meetup in Boston to which tons of local geeks attended and drank free beer. During that meeting, I talked to a local graduate student in biophysics at Harvard named Andrew Leifer who told me that he loved GitHub and was in fact using it to collaborate on a program that accomplished mind control. with lasers. on worms.
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The system can make the worm paralyzed, lay eggs, back up, speed up or sense touch in different areas of its body, all by directing laser light into specific neurons.
Also, “If you aimed that at me, I’d probably lay eggs too.”
Mechanical Man
Frank Klepacki
Frank Klepacki - Mechanical Man
More Surgery
Matthew Dear
Matthew Dear - More Surgery
“I’ve seen a lot of 'lookit our tax dollars at work!' type reactions to these lists, like it’s somehow trivial how science is portrayed in the mass media, that bad science in films doesn’t degrade actual, real science being conducted in labs. Obviously, the scientific community disagrees. Note also the tremendous opportunity for improving scientific literacy, just by making accurate films.”
—Michael Byrne, NASA Picks Its Best and Worst Science-Fiction Movies
