Atlanta Skepticamp was this past weekend and unfortunately A and myself couldn’t make it. We were busy in San Diego busting psychics and tarot card readers for practicing without a permit. True story. We did manage to take a little time out from our volunteer work with the SDPD to put together a fun video for Maria to play for all her Atlanta friends. I thought it might give you a giggle and so I have posted it here.
Have you ever written a song about skepticism or a poem about science? Have you ever written a geeky haiku? Will you now?
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Hi there!
Well now I HAVE to! :(
(actually, I’ve thought about it. I have a brother who does Urban Poetry, and a lot of the poetry slams that I’ve been to involve some deeply religious/spiritual themes that raise my hackles)
@Chelsea: Nice. :)
I’m sure you’ve been informed by now, but you both had the entire room rolling on the floor.
@shinrai: Excellent! :)
Awesome as always, A & Amy!
I have had math students write haikus explaining formulas & theorems. Fun!
I once wrote a lengthy series of haiku about toast. Does that count?
A few years ago I wrote a haiku about how loud my cat is when she pees. If I may…
Groucho pees loudly
In that litter box of hers
Little waterfall.
@Chelsea: The small apartment
Brings all closer together
Urine my space cat
I wrote a rap about dinosaurs when I was in elementary school — not for an assignment, but because I wanted to. I don’t remember all of it but I think it started:
Dinosaurs lived a long time ago
they were related to birds, don’t you know . . .
:-P
@Chelsea:
COTW
@w_nightshade: Yes. That totally counts!
OK, here’s my contribution (sung to the tune of Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee from Grease):
Look at me, I’ve a PhD
Lousy with authority
I saw it through
At Patriot U
And now! I’m a PhD
50 pages (front and back!)
And a spell check I did lack
But PU got paid
And Doctor was made
Look at me! I’m a PhD
Darwinists doubt my claims
But they’ll burn soon, in Hell’s flames
Don’t understand tax laws
But know evolution has flaws
Trust me! I’m a PhD
A few weeks back when everyone was screaming and hollering at each other, I wrote a sonnet to skepticism.
I give out vaccines
To protect from diseases
Jenny please wake up
this is not haiku
i am really bad at this
pants
I have the start of a science song, but I’ve never managed to get it any further. It also requires some preamble.
If you go to a museum, in the evolution/natural history section you’re likely to come across some dioramas labelled “age of fish”, “age of amphibians”, “age of reptiles”, “age of mammals”. This is a load of rubbish, created by our anthropocentric viewpoint. The ruling lifeform of Earth is bacteria, and has been since our earliest evidence of life on Earth. This is the Age of Bacteria. Furthermore, we’re only part way through the Age of Bacteria – it will last until the sun bakes the Earth about 5 billion years hence, so we’re just a bit short of half way. If we use the traditional ‘compare a long period of time to 24 hours’ on it, then we get…
[Music: Age of Aquarius]
This is mid morning of the Age of Bacteria
The Age of Bacteria!
Bacteria! Bacteria!
(For what it is worth, I place this idea in the public domain. If you can finish it, you can use it as you wish.)
Not original, first seen on a T-shirt:
Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator
Someone has even illustrated it:
http://firstmilkman.com/?tag=refrigerator
My geeky haiku:
The Konami Code
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left
Right, B, A, select
@Advocatus Diaboli: COTW – Tax laws, dinosaurs, and theology FTP*!
*Prison
As part of a gift exchange, I wrote my entire wish list as a series of haiku.
Darwin went to sea
Evolution he did find
A theory was born