Bill Higgins asks How good is the science behind "The Dawn of Man" portion at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey ? Note because apparently it's required: he's talking about the ape-men, not the role the monolith played in the movie.

isherempress posted an old GT group photo and we tried to name the people in it. Here's a tougher, or at least larger challenge. Name these GTers who attended beamjockey 's wedding:

My LiveJournal Friends bloggingchick fanfromfla greenlady2 johnridley phoenix_turtle9 ...

beamjockey has tracked down pictures of the "Moon Ballet" performed on the set of Destination Moon . The major question right now is "was this filmed?"

Courtesy of beamjockey , we're talking some Dear Friend, My name is Sgt.Br**n H*rn.of the Contract Unit of US Military here in Baghdad-Iraq,we have about USD$29.7 United States Dollars that we want to move out of the country. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2988455.stm Kindly re-confirm to me the followings: (1) Your full name:(2) Your full address and the City of Residence...

It was all kinds of fun hanging out at Cap, even if I only made it up to the party floor briefly (15 minutes in the GT suite). This will be my last commuting con, I hated the drive and would have had much more fun if I'd ponied up for a room for all three nights. It was great going to panels and on Thursday I even got to be the loud-mouthed panel abductor. Hee! As usual I mostly went to the science...

LIFE Discovered on Moon! beamjockey.livejournal.com/116875.html Note to self: CHIPOLTE is not diet food. Even if you leave the rice out.

In the usual complete lack of order... An article explaining that bizzare Volkswagen-worth billions thing from last year. Fred Pohl has a blog . The future keeps surprising me. MRSA can be destroyed by visible-wavelength light . 23:31:30 this Friday - the 13th - is 1234567890 in the Unix epoch . Snow dalek at Balliol . Making Light collects all the Onion stories about the Bush years ....

I'm feeling somewhat surreally ill at the moment - it seems to be a vague lurgy which manifests itself when I'm, well, not at work. Whilst this is a delightful demonstration that contrary to all evidence I do have a work ethic, it's rather irritating in itself. Anyhow, it means I'm sitting here in front of the computer, and clearing out some of the stuff I've been procrastinating on, so you may as...

Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays!      Happy birthday and even happier physics-rich musical experimentation to beamjockey   , the only ukulele player I know to have planted himself, supine, on the floor at the center of a geodesic dome in downtown Minneapolis, to enjoy the sounds his ukulele made in concert with said geodesic dome. Much happy physics, ballroom dancing, and good life to...