It's Science Friday. And that means a short explanation of Why Physics* Is Made Of Awesome, stolen lovingly from Gnome Garden.



Because, you know, we're not just about string and/or its theory around here. Just mostly.
And shortly I shall leave you all to depart for points Virginian-ly. Behave yourselves†.

( Edit: For the benefit of Lord Whimsy and others, natural & unnatural history rendered in balloon art )

No. It turns out that every classical station within reception range ordered and received Mussorgsky on the same effing day, simultaneously. And proceeded to play it all effing day long.

The pounding in my skull is finally at an ebb. Conclusion: greatly terrible. Let us never do that again.

I think it speaks to the really weird mentality my country has gotten to, when the news media reports on Barak Obama's daily schedule:

• send daughters off to school
• gym
• start briefings by the CIA

A pause after the newscast, and then the rest of my brain catches up with current events and says OH OF COURSE. Wars and Gitmo and all that. Right. He had ( Read more... )

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• 02:20 CMYK vs RGB: The digital camera goes apeshit whenever I try to photograph magenta. Apeshit, which here is a highly technical term. #
• 03:05 Historical Mathematicians Are Made Of WIN: "The History Of Hypatia ( Read more... )

+++ TO PUBLIC RADIO PLEDGE DRIVE +++

YOU CANNOT BE YOUR OWN ZEITGEIST STOP

FUNDAMENTALLY IMPOSSIBLE STOP

PLS STOP SAYING FOOLISH THINGS STOP

I WILL GET YOU A DICTIONARY STOP

+++ CHRONOGRAPHIA +++

OMFG. MO ROCCA. MO ROCCA AMBUSHED THE NPR REPORTER-ON-THE-FLOOR AFTER THE CLINTON SPEECH AND GAVE FASHION COMMENTARY ON THE DELEGATIONS ( Read more... )

Waking up to this news story blaring in my ear, and I emphatically remember why I do not set my radio alarm to any station that plays news at that hour. Even worse, I lay there in a post-r.e.m. state and tried to figure out if I had imagined what I heard or not. The more vivid phrases chased themselves around my head for ten minutes ( Read more... )

Well that's . . . unnerving. I suppose that when one djs a graveyard-shift radio show, one can get rly, rly bored in the studio, and when the addition of a lone soul listening to the webstream pops up on the station's stats, one would probably make mention of it ( Read more... )

I don't quite know how far you have to go to ruin Jane Austen, exactly. But I have to say that watching the new productions of The Complete Jane Austen . . . they're . . . not one of the better examples of her work. When watching them, one is hit in the head with bricks, incised with the words EXPOSITION, and MELODRAMA, and PLOT DEVICE for an hour ( Read more... )

Stolen like a shiny thing from thistlelurid: Corvus corax love snow, because it is fun to roll in. To which I can only say, "Obviously."

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