Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Zeitgeist

Greetings. Wednesday is the new Friday. Or at least it is if you are me and only work 3 days a week. Rest of my week is work on Top Secret Project. Hopefully ready to launch pretty soon. How excitement.

Otherwise, nothing to report.

A sexual arms race waged with twisted genitals has been discovered in waterfowl.

Jazz Mutant - some weird-ass music console mixing effects pad thingy. Bjork has one.

I want a Kaoss Pad. Just so you know.

For your perusal and edification: Dragon Precinct. Fantasy Crime Fiction. I kid you not.

Eta Carinae - the most massive star that can be studied in detail



The Homunculus Nebula surrounds Eta Carinae. The Homunculus was created in an eruption of Eta Car whose light reached Earth in 1843.

Homunculus.

I just love that word.



I read "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" and all I learned was this word:

Revanchist
1. The act of retaliating; revenge.2. A usually political policy, as of a nation or an ethnic group, intended to regain lost territory or standing.

Quantum physics says goodbye to reality: "physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not exist when we are not observing it"

On that note ...

The End.

3 comments:

mskp said...

i wonder if you'll ever need the "duck dicks" tag again...

elaine said...

things only exist in a state of quantum superposition until they're observed. The act of observation collapses the wave-function leading to what is seen.

too much fancy talk?

It helps to understand that this occurs on a quantum scale too - to a certainty/uncertainty of hbar/2.

Maybe it's easier to not look sometimes...

richardwatts said...

The fantasy crime fiction reminds me of a film I so desperately want to see: a gothic horror crime film, in which HP LOvecraft is a hard-boiled detective (I was going to type 'hard-boiled dick' but then remembered the duck post above, and thought better of it...)