December 2009
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Don't bring a gun to a snowball fight. →
I’m eager to see how this pans out. A DC detective drew his gun after his Hummer got hit with a snowball. Sort of reminds me of a certain near-tazering at Wooster. Only with a real gun and a real cop.
The Briggs-Rauscher Oscillating Reaction
The Nazi’s at Google video won’t let you embed their shit which really bummed me out, so here’s the boring old link.
This is the part where I’d talk more about it, but I’ve got nothing to say besides COOL. And instead of paraphrasing the wikipedia article to make it sound like I know all about this shit, I’ma be real and just include the link to that too. ...
Somebody finally got wise and put some old issues of Science and Nature on the john here at work. Amazed that didn’t happen years ago. I read about dogs!
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Best shitty summer job I can imagine.
So we were wandering around Cambridge a while back, waiting for a Bishop Allen show to start, and near MIT things started to smell delicious. It was like someone was frying elephant ears stuffed with pork, like sweet and savory all at once. Following the smell led us into a more chocolate/dusty smell cloud that we, in a classic move that could be a counterexample for future DARE videos, followed...
heh heh
The journal abbreviation for the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences is “PNAS”
Saturn's got a huge mystery hexagon
This shit’s bananas
I’ll keep the goods comin’, you read up on them when you have time. Studies first, Saturn second.
Wait, this is pretty funny
Normally I hate those “acknowledging the fact that I’m a dork” tee-shirts. Like, a lot. But this one is actually pretty funny:
I have to buy a secret santa gift (hate this shit) for a coworker and I’m considering getting it off of this website so I can also get this shirt.
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Math dude plots the roots of polynomials, result...
Some cool math dork plotted the square roots of all the numbers, out to 5 decimal places, between 4 to -4 and the result was bitchin. What would that be… [drum roll as I try to think through the math] nine million points? I do that right? Here’s the website, they go on to show a point density plot and discuss the bitchin fractal-lined holes that occur.
Neat!
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RIP Green Ranger 2007-2009
The Green Ranger died. Purchased to back up my IS, the Green Ranger has been my go-to USB flash drive for almost two years. His bountiful 2 GB of space were always there to reliably store my files and stupid .gifs. I knew this day would one day come, but I still wasn’t ready for it.
goodnight sweet prince
Alas, there is one ray of hope. I named this thing after the Power...
Victorious
I just got back from an unofficial ‘make gross noises while you’re on the john’ contest and I kicked some serious ass. I entered the bathroom, not expecting a competition and sat down in the unoccupied stall to take care of business when the guy next to me starts making noise. Now nobody likes dropping a deuce when there’s someone within 5 feet of you doing the same thing...
Meta junk food review #2: T.G.I. FRiDAY'S Pizza...
Obtained from: City Convenience
Along with: Hydrive citrus burst energy beverage
Favorite Ingredient: Tomato powder, if that’s not space food, I don’t know what is.
So today I had 20 minutes to buy and eat something for lunch so that I didn’t swoon during a lab I had to teach, and I thought to myself “a slice of pizza?” Then I thought again, “fuck that weak...
