The Glowing Edge

Tag: quantum physics

  • why I love xkcd

    I spent a good part of the last two days reconfiguring my hardware set-up, and trying to add some software as well. There were moments in which I felt like I was wobbling along the event horizon of a black hole. Then there was xkcd (which, dear reader, I have added to my must-clicks for you, although honestly, if you are a geek like me you should just subscribe and have done with it!). Nerdvana!

    I know it’s impossible to read it here since Blogger compresses images so painfully, so just click on the image to go to a nice, ginormous, jumbo double-venti version.

  • Get Back Wonder Woman!

    The features of Wonder Woman’s wrist cuffs:
    1. Can stop bullets

    The features of the Maker’s wrist cuff:
    1. Screen One: Text messaging
    2. Screen Two: Video conferencing
    3. Button One: Ice (“If you are on a cliff, and there’s another cliff across from you, you can make an ice bridge across to the other side.”)
    4. Button Two: Flames (“If a bad guy is throwing ice at you, you can flame it up.”)
    5. Button Three: Invisibility (“This button also lets you go through things, so if your Mom sends you to your room, you can still go through the walls to go outside and play.”)
    6. Button Four: Speed (“If you only have 10 more seconds to get to work, then push this button and maybe you’ll get there in only 2 seconds. Also if your brother is sick and there’s no hospital in America, you can carry him really fast to Africa.”)

    After a bit of thought The Maker said he’s also adding Underwater Breathing and Super Strength (presumably since the technology is so readily available), and Fly because it’s a short word and fits.

    All this on only one cuff. Just imagine what he could do with two of them.

  • Slice of Life: The Perfect Saturday

    For the first time in over a decade I have some Saturdays off. It’s astonishing how wonderful they are, assuming you have no intention of grocery shopping or cleaning bathrooms. Here’s what my fabulous Saturday looked like:

    1. Sleep late
    2. Join the Ice in the kitchen where he’s making a double batch of biscuits. Cook the whole package of bacon at once by using three skillets at once (how very extravagant!)
    3. Enjoy a sit-down breakfast with four-fifths of the family (the First sleeps even later, now that he’s practically a teenager)
    4. Get back in bed.
    5. Watch movie trailers on the internet with all three boys and two cats, who have joined me on my bed: The Bee Movie (all four trailers), Enchanted, Fred Claus, Step Up 2, Dragon Wars, 27 Dresses, The Golden Compass, I’m Not There (the Bob Dylan film), Moondance Alexander, The Final Season
    6. Surf lolcats.
    7. Get up, shower, wear my favorite shirt (Death Cab for Cutie) and jeans. Also Doc Martens.
    8. Lounge around lookin fine
    9. Blog
    10. Read other blogs
    11. Fix Husband’s website
    12. Make tomato sandwich for lunch. Eat leftover bacon. Drink Diet Dr. Pepper with maraschino cherries out of a wine glass.
    13. Pet / annoy cats
    14. Go thorough boys’ Halloween candy. Eat Take 5 bar and Almond Joy.
    15. Eat pizza for dinner
    16. Seuss-a-Palooza! Read to boys: The Sneetches, The Zax, The Pale Green Pants, Too Many Daves (a personal favorite, I used to have it memorized), Horton Hears a Who
    17. Go to be early
    18. Read string theory, quantum physics

    Ahh, perfection. I honestly can’t see any room for improvement.