BBC News - Japan halts whale hunt after chase by protesters

Well, it was bound to happen: something actually happened in Whale Wars! Too bad the new season doesn’t air until Summer.

I am not a greentard by any measure, but I find this kind of unscripted TV absolutely addictive. Now that something actually happened in the show, it is going to be even better. The problem is that the way the show is edited, I can almost guarantee you that they’ll stretch this over pretty much the whole season. I can almost visualize the promos:

“On the next episode of Whale Wars, we’ll show you a five-second clip that hints at the five-second clip we’ll show three weeks from now that hints at somebody getting excited about maybe catching up to the damn whaling mothership.”

Or something like that. They did it already, for the Ady GIl incident.

I hope that when the Caves of Steel happen it won’t impact this kind of TV show.

On sleep deprivation and Incan Monkey Gods

From: Dilbert comic strip for 08/03/1992 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. I was trying to show this strip to a coworker who is dangerously toying with the harsh mistress that is Insomnia. What shocked me is how quickly I was able to look up the strip, which was published when he was just 11 years old, and two weeks before my just-out-of-college ass shipped out to US Army Basic Training.

The Black Hole

If this was a minigolf hole, you can't reach B from A. Ever. If this was a room lined with mirrors, and you lit a candle at point A, you can't see it from B, not even reflected. Update: I guess I didn't explain this all the way through. You can't reach B from A with just one stroke, there's no direct line between them, and there is no way to bounce the ball (assuming perfect conditions). Thanks to Ben for pointing this obvious error.

The Insomniac Coder

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