pathologies

boy, i sure hope i never get this:

funny

Comics - Explosm.net

the west bottoms

here's a pair of pics from google street view of the creepy KC West Bottoms, and a huge warehouse that they call "The Edge of Hell."
(took me a while to hunt it down on street view, as the address on file for "The Edge Of Hell, Kansas City, MO" doesn't take you to the right side of the warehouse.)




and here's me there earlier this year, when we stumbled upon it while leaving the circus. no joke.
(i'm the one groveling for mercy and begging the gargoyle not to eat me)



click around in the map to explore the west bottoms yourself:


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neat graphic

The relative sizes of, and distance between, Earth and Moon, to scale,

with a beam of light travelling between them at the speed of light.

(from wikipedia)

hahahahaha

a quote from a forum (edited for clarity):

Me and a few friends attempted to naked ninja someone last night(refer to bottom of post).

We went into the wrong room, the room of someone none of us knew, and he got incredibly angry with us.

He came downstairs with a fucking sword (yes...a fucking sword) swearing that he would cut all of our wieners off. He proceeded to call us a bunch of "fucking indie faggots"...we laughed...he cried...the end.

Naked Ninja - Trying to run, naked except for only a belt, into a room where a friend is having sex.

it's "see tee" not "cat"

urrs

Imagine that you stretch a pillowcase tightly across the opening of a
bucket, and different people throw ping-pong balls at it from different
distances. They can each throw as many balls as they like, and as often
as they like. Your job is to figure out, just by looking at how the
pillowcase moves up and down, how many people there are, who they are
and whether they are walking towards you, away from you or standing
still.







This is essentially the problem your auditory system has to
contend with when it uses the eardrum as the gateway to hearing.




MAN HOW AWESOME IS THAT? it's just neat to think about how good our ears are at stuff.


Music special: The illusion of music - 23 February 2008 - New Scientist

ugh

Blue Planet: an undersea lake

i know, i know, it was just on digg, and i'm just recycling the story... BUT, i had told some people about this before, and now i have a video to show it to them.

really cool.

look at this happy little tree

singin with the devil

OH MY GOD. van Halen's "Runnin' With The Devil." Acapella. Original lead vocals recording from the studio. It is SO, SO horrendous. There's a "WOOH!" about halfway through that is priceless, and the last 20 seconds or so is just mindblowing in its awfulness.

mash SF soundtrack excerpts

SeeqPod - Playable Search

dammit

my mac power cable just crapped out. and the battery on the damn thing is shot. SO, the thing is basically useless, until i buy a new charger.

propose THAT!

i just wrote my first research proposal. i wanna punch a robot in the face and have him blow up, TMNT style, in celebration. will get it submitted this week. Then have another proposal to write up, I guess to see if i can get 2x as much money this summer? i don't even know if that's possible, but lord i hope so.

another mystery diagnosis

got another one right. this one seemed easy. diabetes insipidus.