Failure

Fallback Friday – Stephen Colbert's Fallback Position – Astrophysicist

February 15, 2008

I love watching Stephen Colbert. The other night, he featured negative thinking on his show “The Colbert Report” in a segment called Stephen’s Colbert’s Fallback Position. He’s worried about losing his job and is thinking of what else he can do for work.   The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Neil de Grasse Tyson www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political [...]

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Failure Friday: Possible Cancer Breakthrough

February 8, 2008

Saw this little tidbit on the net and it kind of pulls back the curtain on how things are discovered in the lab due to mistakes. From EurkeAlert!: In the study that led to the discovery of the anti-cancer effect, researchers were looking for new ways to reduce inflammation seen in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative [...]

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Failure Friday: Titanic

January 25, 2008

No, this is not the Titanic but the movie Titanic. Both were doomed from the start, but only one sank. If you remember, the industry was touting James Cameron’s a monumental flop, the next Waterworld. A bloated budget and out of control shooting schedule was sure to doom the famous ship twice. I’ll let Wikipedia [...]

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Failure Friday: Cheese

January 18, 2008

Cheese, glorious cheese. Or so says the Dairy Council. But it is general believed that cheese was made by a failure in ancient milk storing practices. From Wikipedia.org: Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient times, provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs, it is probable that the process of cheese [...]

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Failure Friday: The Implantable Cardiac Pacemaker

January 11, 2008

The first Friday Failure of the New Year comes from the heart. Not mine, but someone’s, I’m sure. It’s a little ditty about how a simple mistake sometimes can show us something we never expected. From MIT (yes, that MIT): After earning a BS (Cornell) and MSEE (University of Buffalo), and after serving with the [...]

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Failure Friday: Christmas Day – December 25th

December 21, 2007

Ah…Christmas is in the air. Not here in Houston (its 78 degrees today), but still. It’s in the air. At least I hope that’s what I smell… But as we approach the big day, I’ve always wondered. Why December 25th? Was that Jesus’ Birthday? Well… from AllAboutJesusChrist.org (where else?): The Bible itself tells us that [...]

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Failure Friday: The Telephone

December 14, 2007

This little blunder is what I like to call Found in Translation. Sometimes misinterpretations allow us to move forward. Take the case of Alexander Graham Bell. Before he invented the telephone, he studied transmitting tones electronically. I’ll let PBS.org explain: Alexander Graham Bell became intrigued by the writings of German physicist Hermann Von Helmholtz. Von [...]

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Failure Friday: Potato Chips

November 30, 2007

First off, the most obvious failure I need to point out today is the lack of a post yesterday. One thousand apologies for a hectic day that sidetracked me enough to forego my blog. Shame…SHAME! The failure I wanted to showcase today originated from spite. Spite is pretty bad thing. I would hope you don’t [...]

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Failure Friday: The Pilgrims

November 23, 2007

This edition of Failure Friday isn’t a story of a complete failure. More a tale of potential failure. One I call “Plymouth Rocks (um…not so much)”. The pilgrims landed in the New World, trying to escape religious persecution in England. Their timing and preparation were pretty bad. From Wikipedia: On December 21, 1620, the first [...]

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Failure Friday: Indiana Jones

November 16, 2007
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Continuing the theme from last week’s failure and due to the fact tonight I am hosting “Movie Night” for our Home Owners Association (think book club, without the reading!) I introduce to you a small sample of how failures can point you toward success. I give you: Indiana Jones. Arguably the best hero in cinema [...]

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