That's the funny-awfulest thing I've read today.

I actually made some holograms in college. GRRRR!

I actually made some holograms in college. GRRRR!

As has been discussed previously… these aren't holograms, people! It's just the digital version of an old stage illusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

As has been discussed previously… these aren't holograms, people! It's just the digital version of an old stage illusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Sonofa… you beat me to the gag!

Sonofa… you beat me to the gag!

I heard it's a Fleischer picture.

I heard it's a Fleischer picture.

I think he was only worried about technology that he thought made people stupid. Or at least uses of technology that made people stupid. Go back and read his short story "The Murderer" from 1953. It's linked somewhere in these comments. He was pretty skeptical of the way things were going even then.

I think he was only worried about technology that he thought made people stupid. Or at least uses of technology that made people stupid. Go back and read his short story "The Murderer" from 1953. It's linked somewhere in these comments. He was pretty skeptical of the way things were going even then.

@avclub-5a1c0dcc8243c086c74ee944052f6f0f:disqus Cheer up… it's only 105 years, not 112, until the next transit.

@avclub-5a1c0dcc8243c086c74ee944052f6f0f:disqus Cheer up… it's only 105 years, not 112, until the next transit.

Oh, @Gjetostbuster:disqus , don't do the multiple pairs of sunglasses thing again when looking at the sun. They may block enough visible light to be comfortable, but they won't block the infrared. The infrared is what fries your retina, but it won't cause a blink reflex. (I once worked in a lab using an infrared…

Oh, @Gjetostbuster:disqus , don't do the multiple pairs of sunglasses thing again when looking at the sun. They may block enough visible light to be comfortable, but they won't block the infrared. The infrared is what fries your retina, but it won't cause a blink reflex. (I once worked in a lab using an infrared…

It's been ages since I read it (I've forgotten most of the details), but it just feels so… lonely. That house, unthinkingly going through its paces, but nobody there. And as I write that, I think of an unthinking person going through his or her paces, as if the world is already dead. Damn you Ray Bradbury, making me…

It's been ages since I read it (I've forgotten most of the details), but it just feels so… lonely. That house, unthinkingly going through its paces, but nobody there. And as I write that, I think of an unthinking person going through his or her paces, as if the world is already dead. Damn you Ray Bradbury, making me…

Their show at the Fillmore in '68 was sublime, according to those who saw it.

Their show at the Fillmore in '68 was sublime, according to those who saw it.

This is sounding appropriately Bradburyesque… I watched the transit from the patio of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science as clouds periodically blocked and revealed the view. While I'm not always impressed by humanity, we can sometimes do some pretty cool stuff (like predicting exactly when a little dot will move…