…and you’ll see this: (Hat tip: SpaceWeather.com.) Bonus, here in Denver at least: an International Space Station flyover (albeit in a different part of the sky). To see if the ISS is visible from your location tomorrow morning, at the same time as Venus, the slender crescent Moon, Saturn and Mercury (and also Mars, overhead), check out the Simple Satellite… Read more »
If you were a kid in the late 80’s and early 90’s chances are you saw The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. The 52 episode series ran Monday through Friday and featured live actors playing the characters of Mario and Luigi. You may remember it for its memorable opening theme song. Mario was played by “Captain” Lou Albano, who passed… Read more »
Looking at this week’s college football schedule, there are, needless to say, some fairly huge games. There’s the small matter of the Brendan Loy Game of the Year between #6 USC and #25 Notre Dame, of course. But there’s a heckuva lot beyond that, too. Things actually get started tonight with Boise State at Tulsa, and ramp up further tomorrow… Read more »
Just as I thought was likely to occur when I looked at the polls two weeks ago, Notre Dame has benefited from the latest round of ranked teams falling, and is now ranked in both polls — #25, to be exact — heading into next week’s showdown with #5/6 USC (who somehow managed to leapfrog Boise State in the coaches… Read more »
The headline today among poll-watchers is that Alabama has passed Texas for the #2 spot in the AP poll, which means that the SEC — which, if you hadn’t heard, is a war — now holds the top two spots. But really, who cares? Florida and Alabama can’t both go undefeated; if they both win out, they have to play… Read more »
In a little less than 18 hours, NASA will bomb the Moon. Well, technically, they’ll crash two spaceships into the Moon. Ostensibly, the purpose of this exercise is to create a “plume” of debris, then analyze the debris from afar to see if it contains water. If that doesn’t work, though, I’m pretty sure Dick Cheney will torture the debris… Read more »
Heh: In case you missed it, TBS baseball announcer Chip Caray made, er, a slight mistake in calling a potentially game-deciding play during the 10th inning of last night’s one-game playoff between the Twins and Tigers for the AL Central title: Caray was presumably confused because, normally, a ball on that sort of trajectory to shallow left field would indeed… Read more »
I was going to tweet this thought, but it ended up being 620 characters long, so I guess I’ll just blog it: I think it’s silly to call David Letterman is a hypocrite because he made jokes about people’s sex lives while having sexual peccadilloes of his own. Are we demanding complete purity and righteousness from… our COMEDIANS now? Really?!… Read more »
Oklahoma’s loss to Miami is big for USC, because it means the Sooners are no longer a threat to the Trojans’ championship hopes. Texas is now the only Big 12 South team ahead of ‘SC in the BCS pecking order, assuming the Trojans finish with one loss. I could be wrong, but I don’t foresee Okie State or anyone else… Read more »
Over at the Orange County Register‘s USC football blog, Scott Reid writes that the “Bush Push Era” is officially over, after Notre Dame scored a crucial two-point conversion — ultimately preserving overtime, and allowing them to beat Washington — on a four-yard, uncalled “assisting the runner” penalty: As you recall (and the Whining Irish certainly won’t let you forget) top-ranked… Read more »
