“Fire breathing is a stunning but potentially injurious stunt. The fire-breathers direct a mouthful of fuel forcefully or creates a fine mist by spitting through pursed lips which is ignited over a flame resulting in a stunning visual show of plume, pillar, ball, volcano, or a cloud of fire [Figure 2].” The potential injuries are […]
Tag: circus
Commercial power generation: Not bug-free
This commercial for Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor claims [perhaps accurately!] to show that a few bugs can provide enough power to run the chip: [HT Ernesto Charles]
Great Circus Adventures in Accounting (2009)
The turn of the century brought a new openness to, and maybe even nostalgia and yearning for, accounting adventure, symbolized by the publication of a jaunty paper. “Juggling the Books: The Use of Accounting Information in Circus in Australia,” Lorne Cummings and Mark Valentine St. Leon, Accounting History, vol. 14, nos. 1–2, 2009, pp. 11–33 […]
Engineering report: Angel, the dangling doofus
Last night Elvis and I got to observe something you don’t see very often: a very high-budget, high-tech Las Vegas strip performance go spectacularly wrong…. I’ve never seen Mr. Angel before, so I don’t know what he’s like on TV. But he doesn’t really do much of anything in the show. I mean, he pulls […]