October 2010 | wodeces

Friday, October 29, 2010

Glass

I read in this one article that the breaking of electroweak symmetry is the reason we have SOULS. This guy with a degree said so!

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Starlight

Don't worry! From the light's point of view, home and your eye are in the same place, and the journey takes no time at all! Relativity saves the day again.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Constructive

And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ... oh.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Los Alamos

The test didn't (spoiler alert) destroy the world, but the fact that they were even doing those calculations makes theirs the coolest jobs ever.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Economic Argument

Not to be confused with 'making money selling this stuff to OTHER people who think it works', which corporate accountants and actuaries have zero problems with.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Connected

Or love in general, for that matter. It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect, and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you'.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Tech Support

I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Paradise City

Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Pumpkin Carving

The Banach-Tarski theorem was actually first developed by King Solomon, but his gruesome attempts to apply it set back set theory for centuries.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Airfoil

This is a fun explanation to prepare your kids for; it's common and totally wrong. Good lines include 'why does the air have to travel on both sides at the same time?' and 'I saw the Wright brothers plane and those wings were curved the same on the top and bottom!'

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Online Communities 2

Best trivia I learned while working on this: 'Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?' Then you wait for the listener to do a double-take.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Golden Hammer

Took me five tries to find the right one, but I managed to salvage our night out--if not the boat--in the end.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Beautiful Dream

Lucky. In MY dream, all the people who grew up loving The Giving Tree paired up with all the students who had weird dreams after reading The Metamorphosis. That one was more confusing.