And it’s a shame that the sky is round, so you can’t just move your mouse to the corner to trigger the screensaver.
“Convincing him to turn off the stupid laser show and useless sound system was such a huge ordeal that no one has wanted to do it again.”
Greg is also the guy responsible for putting lights inside people’s helmets in science fiction shows.
He also invented The Most Important Device in the Universe.
What is that from?
I’m pretty sure the first clip, with Shatner, is from Airplane II. Of course the video contains clips from many other movies and TV shows as well, and somehow the Device appears in all of them.
The Wilhelm Scream of sci-fi
“It’s ok if you want to close close your eyes for the slab graveyard, so you can still have fun riding the mantle plume back up afterward!”
“I did briefly visit Venus in August 2025, but I figured out the mistake on my own because it didn’t have any moons.”
“Runners looking for aerodynamic advantage typically wear sneakers because some fancy dress shoes can create wingtip vortices.”
That last was a terrible pun.
It would be nice if we could track down who made it.
It’s the Modern Props #195-290-1, a movie prop originally built in the 1970’s. It’s a product of the creative mind of [John Zabrucky] who founded Modern Props in 1977 to serve Sci-Fi television and movie productions that wanted to invent the future with their props.
Shades of Bob and Ray’s “World Champion Low Jumper” sketch:
Also whinger, infringer, derringer, hinger, wharfinger, ossbringer (British pronunciation), minger, Kissinger, Bollinger, Grainger.
I postulate that in every language there is at least one rule that has more exceptions than cases validating it. Let me call it, in all modesty and hoping it has not been stated before, the Pardel Hypothesis.
Thanks.
Apt post/member combo.
Very early in my career, before I learned better, I earned the eternal hatred of the manager of the software division by remarking in a meeting, “You could all be replaced by a quad op-amp.”
Every electronic device is powered by a 555 timer.
Another apt post/member combo…