Tonight, I was drinking bloody Marys and watching the Shark Week shows I had on my DVR, and they were talking about how sharks could smell 1 part blood in 1,000,000 parts of water. So I started to think: just how extraordinary is that really? Then I thought about farts, and how accurate a humans’ smell was. First I had to figure out how big a fart was. I found this site (http://www.heptune.com/farts.html) that says humans produce a half a liter of flatus a day, and on average humans fart 14 times a day. That means the average fart has a volume of 2.2 cubic inches (had to do some math — well really, this web page did the math http://www.onlineconversion.com/). I’ve smelled farts that creeped up stair cases, and across gymnasiums, but to be fair, we’ve all smelled farts from across school classrooms, so to detect the human’s ability to detect farts, I needed to determine the volume of a classroom. Figure that the classic high-school classroom is 9′x20′x20′ — that’s 3600 cubic feet, or 6,220,800 cubic inches. To be fair, lets say humans and desks take up 1/3 of the room, and that the volume of room available to fart expansion is 4,000,000 cubic inches. If we divide 2.2 cubic inches of fart by 4,000,000, we find that the human can detect 1 part of fart in 1.8 million parts of air. That’s better than the shark’s ability to sense blood in water.
Granted my math, science, and logic might be off — but my excuse is that I’m drunk. Booya!
I was bored, and when I’m bored I spend money on things that I think might distract me from my slow crawl to the grave. So I bought Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3… and inside of 30 minutes I realized that I should have spent my money elsewhere. $60… that’s a lot of drinks, a nice meal, Japanese snacks, a tank of gas (and a road trip). Anyway, had I listened to Yahtzee Croshaw first, I would have saved $60 or spent it in one of the aforementioned ways. Always wait for Yahtzee’s review before buying a game.
Be sure to watch That Mitchell and Webb Look on BBC or BBC America, don’t fast forward through the commercials, patronize all their advertisers, and then buy their DVDs. Normally I would offer a link to Amazon to where you can buy their DVDs, but never in the 12 years I’ve posted such links has anyone ever purchased an item.
Maria Bamford will appear on Season 3 of Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show. Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job is best when guest comedians show up in skits.
Update: Season 3 will also feature Italians:
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July 14, 2008
Catching up on the Will It Blend videos. I would like one of these. Not the iPhone 3G, but the blender.
Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, King of Queens), Brian Posehn (Sarah Silverman Show), Maria Bamford and Zach Galifianakis. The Comedians of Comedy. Last show ever coming up.
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TV Funhouse was an absolutely insane (no exaggeration) TV show created by Robert Smigel, the rotten mind behind the Saturday TV Funhouse cartoons on Saturday Night Live and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. The show featured a cast of degenerate animal puppets (Anipals), actual live animals and Your Pal Doug, and a format similar to live action kids shows like Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers. Each week Doug struggled to get the animal cast to follow the format and theme of the show, but invariably the animals would sneak off to un-family friendly places like cock fights, whore houses, or Las Vegas. In the Christmas special the Anipals incapacitated Doug and made drugs from his spinal fluid — which for me pretty much summed up the insanity of the mid-late 1990s American cultural landscape in under 30 minutes.
The DVD is of the show will FINALLY be released on July 22nd. I recommend it. It’s a buy.
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Peep Show E0504 is up on the YouTube, and it just keeps getting better. This episode revolves around Jeremy’s chance to inherit a small fortune (20 pounds — which he thinks will make him a millionaire), and Mark’s chance to be a war historian.
“Older people are still people, they’re just people who think when they open a new window on the computer, the previous window is disappeared for good.”
The humor is crass and offensive, but the situations are completely believable, and of course, hilarious.
