Comments for Mad Art Lab http://madartlab.com Where Art Meets Science and Skepticism Fri, 17 May 2013 20:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Drabble Lab Round 5: Surprise by scurvygirl http://madartlab.com/2013/05/15/drabble-lab-round-5-surprise/#comment-4305 scurvygirl Fri, 17 May 2013 20:26:55 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20960#comment-4305 Alan adjusted his hat more firmly to his head. The wind was pulling at it with a desperate longing. He normally rode the bus to work, but he had missed it by a mere minute that morning. The one time his regular ride was running ahead of schedule. He walked slowly, figuring late was late and that maybe he could enjoy an atypical stroll. No one would miss him anyway. The wind pulled again at his hat, lifting it up and setting it free to dance across the sky. Alan stopped to watch it, which was why he didn’t see…

]]> Comment on How to Eat Fire in Three Easy Steps by BonnieBeth http://madartlab.com/2013/05/16/how-to-eat-fire-in-three-easy-steps/#comment-4304 BonnieBeth Fri, 17 May 2013 14:45:27 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20824#comment-4304 You have a fine point, Ryan, although we’re really not swallowing (much) fuel so I think it still qualifies as topical. I’m not sure about how/whether oral absorption counts (I’m thinking of those sublingual tablets), but now I have to go look.

Anne: Yes and yes! :D

]]> Comment on How to Eat Fire in Three Easy Steps by Anne S http://madartlab.com/2013/05/16/how-to-eat-fire-in-three-easy-steps/#comment-4303 Anne S Fri, 17 May 2013 07:09:51 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20824#comment-4303 This gentleman is delightful!

Also, I didn’t know you were a fire-eater!

]]> Comment on How to Eat Fire in Three Easy Steps by Ryan http://madartlab.com/2013/05/16/how-to-eat-fire-in-three-easy-steps/#comment-4302 Ryan Fri, 17 May 2013 05:23:03 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20824#comment-4302 Topical applications of fire are bad enough, but you’re proposing taking it orally.
Sounds not unlike my introduction to fire spitting.

]]> Comment on Drabble Lab Round 5: Surprise by breadbox http://madartlab.com/2013/05/15/drabble-lab-round-5-surprise/#comment-4301 breadbox Fri, 17 May 2013 03:52:15 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20960#comment-4301 His apartment manager recognized her, but even so he wouldn’t let her in until she bribed him with promises of leftover birthday cake. She had a full hour to spare, so she took the opportunity to blow up the balloons. But the cake wasn’t even unboxed when he burst into the apartment. From her perch atop the back of the couch, stretching to affix a green balloon to the ceiling, she watched him pull the nylon stocking off of his head, let some of the loose bills fall out of hoodie’s front pocket, and say: “Well, this is a surprise.”

]]> Comment on Welcome Home, Chris Hadfield! by greenstone123 http://madartlab.com/2013/05/14/welcome-home-chris-hadfield/#comment-4300 greenstone123 Fri, 17 May 2013 00:51:26 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20957#comment-4300 Awesome!

]]> Comment on Mad Quickies 5.15 by Madfishmonger http://madartlab.com/2013/05/15/mad-quickies-5-15/#comment-4299 Madfishmonger Thu, 16 May 2013 14:06:01 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20966#comment-4299 Some of those design ideas are brilliant! That colour-changing bottle is a great idea, even for over-the-counter drugs like asprin, as some of those don’t get used often and can go bad in the back of the medicine cabinet before you use them. I also LOVE the idea of flower seeds in cigarette butts, that’s just genius. There was a company in Winnipeg making these:
http://www.botanicalpaperworks.com/
Which is an idea I love.

]]> Comment on Lab Track: Space Oddity by Ryan http://madartlab.com/2013/05/13/lab-track-space-oddity/#comment-4297 Ryan Wed, 15 May 2013 21:19:42 +0000 http://madartlab.com/?p=20868#comment-4297 I feel like even playing the first few chords of this on a spaceship would cause panic. I know he changed the words, but the original does not end well.

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