Godzilla eating a train

Sometimes I love watching the old Godzilla movies. If I ever see one coming on, I’ll queue up the TiVo machine to record it, and then play it as background noise when I’m up late at night goofing around on the computer. Then about half way through it I’ll wonder what the Hell I was thinking and realize how bad it is. Maybe I need to study the Godzilla phenomenon a little more… maybe then I’ll understand the real lure. Either way, the still  pictures of the monster can be pretty cool to look at. Here are a few more.

Gorosaurus

This is Gorosaurus (not sure what year this is from).

Mechagodzilla

Mechagodzilla (you’ve got to love this guy).

Rodan

Rodan (one of Godzilla’s arch enemies, 1964).

That’s all for tonight. Maybe I’ll create a directory for posts about Godzilla. But then again,maybe I won’t. I mainly created this post because the term godzilla monster gallery gets searched for almost a thousand times a day and I’m just trying to pick up some of that traffic for this silly blog. I have no idea why it gets searched for that much.

 

Leah Remini

When was Leah Remini in Playboy? She never was. But she was Zack Morris’ girlfriend in Saved by the Bell back in 1991 and being on that stalwart show pretty much gives you the same level of clout as being in Playboy. I’m really not sure why so many people think she was in Playboy, but for some reason this term gets searched for several thousand times a month. Maybe that’s just the wishful thinking of thousands of teenage boys who swooned over her aesthetically pleasing New York City accent.

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004) was the 40th POTUS (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of the sunny state of California in the late 60s and early 70s. He was born in Illinois where he spent most of his childhood watching the Three Stooges and playing marbles. He moved to L.A. in the 1930s, where he became an actor, then the president of the Cheech and Chong Fan Club, then a spokesman for General Electric, and finally the governor and president.

After high school, Ronald Reagan attended Eureka College, where he was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, majored in economics and sociology, and was very active in sports, including badminton and football.

After graduating from Eureka in 1932, Reagan drove himself to Iowa, where he auditioned for a job at many small-town radio stations. He got a job broadcasting University of Iowa home football games for the Hawkeyes. He was paid $10 per game. Soon after, a staff announcer’s job opened at radio station WOC in Davenport, and Reagan was hired, now earning $100 per month. Due to his persuasive voice, he moved to WHO radio in Des Moines as an announcer for Chicago Cubs baseball games. His specialty was creating play-by-play accounts of games that the station received by wire.

 

ArchimedesArchimedes, 287-212 BCE, was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device now known as Archimedes’ screw. This is a pump, still used in many parts of the world. It is highly likely that, when he was a young man, Archimedes studied with the successors of Euclid in Alexandria. Certainly he was completely familiar with the mathematics developed there, but what makes this conjecture much more certain, he knew personally the mathematicians working there and he sent his results to Alexandria with personal messages. He regarded Conon of Samos, one of the mathematicians at Alexandria, both very highly for his abilities as a mathematician and he also regarded him as a close friend. Source MacTutor History of Mathematics.

I love this quote by Archimedes. Like many of the more memorable quotes, its elegance is in its simplicity yet it can elicit some very compound thoughts. I like to imagine the great thinker saying this a bit in jest, as obviously there is nowhere you can stand where you could place a fulcrum and lever to move the Earth. But in principle, sure you could.

 

Holy cow this is a funny movie. I was planning on writing a review of it as it’s been sitting unwatched on my TiVo for a couple of months and I’m just now starting to watch it. I just don’t know if I’m going to be able to finish it though.

It does have its own Wikipedia page. The following is a snippet: “All of the women on the planet Mars have died in an atomic war, except for Martian Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold). Marcuzan and her right hand man, Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell), decide they will travel to Earth and steal all of the women on the planet in order to continue the Martian race. The Martians shoot down a space capsule manned by the android Captain Frank Saunders (Robert Reilly), causing it to crash in Puerto Rico. Frankenstein’s electronic brain has been damaged and he proceeds to terrorize the island. A subplot involves the martians abducting bikini clad women.”

What a classic.

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