I Live After All
I was planning on making a post for New Years', and then I didn't. This post is essentially pointless, but I feel like posting it anyway.
1) There is no alchemical symbol for carbon. This must be rectified. Any suggestions?
2) It is possible to buy hagfish over the internet&mdash but I want live hagfish, darn it! Or possibly a hagfish stuffed animal. Maybe a little plastic hagfish?
3) I got an 11-inch digital picture frame for Christmas (which is a very impractical gift that I have nowhere to put, but it's still awesome), and I want to make it all steampunk-y, kind of like the stuff Datamancer does, but I'm not at all sure what that would look like. And my machining skills are... well, if you handed me a Dremel I'm sure I'd manage to ruin one of my appendages using it. I'm not sure what to do.
4) You know how it's possible to append the phrase "in bed" to nearly any fortune commonly provided via cookie? I've found another phrase like that: "under standard temperature and pressure." (273K and 1 atm, for those of you who may have forgotten.) It makes slightly less sense, but it's just as fun.
"You have the ability to analyze and solve any problem, under standard temperature and pressure." (I received this fortune a while ago, and found its cheerful hyperbole so amusing that I taped it to my computer monitor.)
"You will step on the soil of many countries, under standard temperature and pressure."
And it works for other things, as well:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, under standard temperature and pressure."
It turns out that cnorgard beat me to posting this.
5) Apparently people wanted computers more than world peace this past Christmas. Of course, the source is rather suspect, seeing as the survey was done by the Consumer Electronics Association. I keep trying to come up with some charitable interpretation of this result, but it's very tough. (I know it's way too late for this to be interesting, but since when have I ever been on time?)
6) BoingBoing&mdash I think it was BoingBoing&mdash introduced me to a really neat short film that I can't resist posting about: Terminus. I don't completely understand what the protagonist is so worried about, though; I think it'd be kind of interesting to be perpetually followed by a sort of concrete eidolon.
1) There is no alchemical symbol for carbon. This must be rectified. Any suggestions?
2) It is possible to buy hagfish over the internet&mdash but I want live hagfish, darn it! Or possibly a hagfish stuffed animal. Maybe a little plastic hagfish?
3) I got an 11-inch digital picture frame for Christmas (which is a very impractical gift that I have nowhere to put, but it's still awesome), and I want to make it all steampunk-y, kind of like the stuff Datamancer does, but I'm not at all sure what that would look like. And my machining skills are... well, if you handed me a Dremel I'm sure I'd manage to ruin one of my appendages using it. I'm not sure what to do.
4) You know how it's possible to append the phrase "in bed" to nearly any fortune commonly provided via cookie? I've found another phrase like that: "under standard temperature and pressure." (273K and 1 atm, for those of you who may have forgotten.) It makes slightly less sense, but it's just as fun.
"You have the ability to analyze and solve any problem, under standard temperature and pressure." (I received this fortune a while ago, and found its cheerful hyperbole so amusing that I taped it to my computer monitor.)
"You will step on the soil of many countries, under standard temperature and pressure."
And it works for other things, as well:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, under standard temperature and pressure."
It turns out that cnorgard beat me to posting this.
5) Apparently people wanted computers more than world peace this past Christmas. Of course, the source is rather suspect, seeing as the survey was done by the Consumer Electronics Association. I keep trying to come up with some charitable interpretation of this result, but it's very tough. (I know it's way too late for this to be interesting, but since when have I ever been on time?)
6) BoingBoing&mdash I think it was BoingBoing&mdash introduced me to a really neat short film that I can't resist posting about: Terminus. I don't completely understand what the protagonist is so worried about, though; I think it'd be kind of interesting to be perpetually followed by a sort of concrete eidolon.