Am I the only one who’s cynical about the rich and famous being given breaks that the rest of us would never have a hope of?
On the plus side, she does get a fashion accessory that few other Hollywood stars can boast of: an electronic ankle bracelet to let police track her whereabouts during the remainder of her sentence.
On the subject of interesting (and dangerous) sports…
Perfumier concocts Paris Hilton chokey scent. About as tasteful as the aforementioned game.
It isn’t often that I can combine my love of computer technology with GoddessJ’s enjoyment of pop-culture icons and what is going on in their lives. This game manages it, though it still fails to get a good-taste rating.
Do-It-Yourself infrared scanners that can see through clothing, and underwear designed to block it, possibly by “chilling your nether regions”? Is this really a problem, even in Japan?
Last one for today, I promise.
I received a major treat for my fifteenth birthday: my mother took my family and a couple of my friends to a new place in town called Chuck E. Cheese’s, a pizza joint with video games galore. Because it was a birthday party, our pizzas were brought out by the clown-dressed employee. As the poor fellow was leaving the table, pizzas safely delivered, my mischievous friend Dan got a gleam in his eye and said very loudly, “now everybody, pick up your plate, and yell ‘FOOD FIGHT!'” I guarantee that you’ve never seen a clown-painted face with such an expression of horror. Nor seen anyone do an about-face as quickly as he did, attempting to head off UFPs (Unidentified Flying Pizzas).
(Disclaimer: no food was actually thrown in that instance, Dan was just doing it to get a laugh. The employee’s reaction was icing on the cake.)
Such were the thoughts in my mind when I read about the 200-student food fight in Illinois last Friday. Ah, to be young again.
Here’s one that no SF author ever thought of: pants that prevent flatulence from smelling. In retrospect, it’s so obvious that you can’t help but wonder how anyone missed it.
I expect I’ll get a year’s supply of these as a Christmas present from GoddessJ.
Another technology from lots of different science fiction stories, vat-grown synthi-meat has finally put in an appearance!
Forget green eggs and ham. Here comes green ham and eggs! 😉
This story, unlike the last one, is crap. Just my opinion, of course, but it’s too far beyond our current technology to have more than a very slim chance of making any progress without lots more basic research first. It smells like an attempt at the lucrative government defense pork barrel to me.
This is the kind of stuff that I love to find! Technologies that are currently found only in science fiction, such as interstellar travel, all rely on a number of unspoken assumptions… for instance, that the people traveling that way have some way of eating during the trip. (Even if they make the trip in some kind of stasis, the machines that maintain and monitor them will have to be fueled somehow.) Hydroponic gardens are all well and good, but they still rely on heat and light energy — energy that can’t come from good ol’ Sol when you’re out beyond Pluto’s orbit. This kind of discovery is crucial to making such technologies possible.