I've always been into science... and by "always" I mean always; I learned the alphabet so that I could use an index. I'm not kidding - age three I was looking up things in an index for fun ( Read more... )

You know what annoys me? (well, one of the things anyways...)

When something gives/asks for weight in grams/kilograms. That's not weight!!!

Pounds are weight. Ounces are weight. Newtons are weight.

Grams (kilo- etc) are NOT weight. They are mass ( Read more... )

I came up with the idea when I viewed this on one of my favorite blogs!

Anyways, this is what I made: ( Clicky to see the picture )

1) If you recall, I posted this a while back about when my bag of win died.

Well, I got a new one!

It is made of even MORE win! It's perfect, and exactly what I've been looking for for the past year!!!I got it at this cool store here called Passport to Peru. It's just awesome :D ( Read more... )

Yeah... you know, I don't even know why I bother anymore... everyone who knows me knows I'm a geek!

Anyways, lets see what's been super-geek in the past few days!

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When you're too old for Barbie, what do you do?

Why, have your sister get you a Doctor who action figure with 5 Adipose. Also, the TARDIS USB four port hub :)


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The NASA shuttle Discovery launched tonight from Florida. We saw it from here! It took about 6 minutes to be able to see it, and we were about to go in when I shout "LOOK ( Read more... )

1) You feel that you must know every Greek letter there is (lowercase AND capital) and what they could possibly stand for; when suddenly, out of the blue, you think to look ahead at the next section and think "ωμγ". Then you catch yourself and think "omg, I'm thinking in txt AND Greek!" ["ωμγ" are the letters "omega mu gamma ( Read more... )

1. You are reading a book by Carl Sagan (you know, the Cosmos guy)
2. You are also reading a book by Jane Goodall (Not about her, by her)
3. You have checked out a book on physics from the library recently, and they had to order it specially for you from across the state
4. The three magazines closest to your bed are Wired, National Geographic, and Smithsonian
5. As ( Read more... )

So, we were having a pretty decent sized thunder/lighting storm (whichever you call it by...) Ameila counted the seconds (silently) and then told me it was 11 miles away. I asked which formula she used; point being, I've heard 1 or 5 seconds per mile. She said she used the "2", because she'd been told that recently (by a unnamed professional... to ( Read more... )