Category Archives: Cartoon
Oh Wait, I'm an Adult With Money
Stop Making Sense
Nice Asymptote
The End of "2000 Ways How Not to Make a Light Bulb"
Oct. 21, 1879: Menlo Park, New Jersey
Edison invents the celebratory fist-pump. Oh, and demonstrates the carbonized-cotton filament light bulb.
Sorry, Wrong Department
The Naval Observatory makes an appearance in Blondie
I have gotten phone calls from people expecting the voice announcer telling them what time it is. My original phone number was apparently listed as such in some old government handout. It’s a little like the reaction when people call and were expecting (or hoping for) voicemail.
The Eyes Have It
Cartoon Eyes available as a print.
Don't Take 'Any Colour You Like' Literally
If you were to put a lens, with a focal length 1/4 of the distance between the prisms, right in between the prisms, you’d definitely bring the light back to nearly a point at the first surface of the second prism. However, the angles of each color will not be what they need to be so that they’ll all come out parallel to each other out the second face.
How do I know this? Because I know what it takes to get all the colors to come out parallel (though not on top of each other).