Swans on Tea

It’s that point on the orbit again: Talk like a physicist day. In case you need to brush up on your vocabulary, you can refer to my original post and its follow-up.
It’s getting much harder to come up with new examples, which means in physics-talk I’m approaching a local maximum in entropy. [...]

Brooklyn Dem Felix Ortiz wants to ban use of salt in New York restaurants
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food,” the bill reads.
Now, I know I’ve tried to make the case that food preparation, as practiced by most people, is [...]

Four Bronx buddies facing year in jail after ‘hitting’ off-duty transit cop – with a snowball!
I don’t want any long-lost friends from grade school deciding to have me arrested for hitting them with a snowball.

Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad
Lohan’s lawyer, Stephanie Ovadia, said the actress has the same single-name recognition as Oprah or Madonna.
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“They used the name Lindsay,” Ovadia said. “They’re using her name as a parody of her life. Why didn’t they use the name Susan? This is a subliminal message. Everybody’s talking about it and [...]

The Nobel prize for Food Science
It must be cartoonsday.

Chad is having trouble with rodents chewing on the wiring in his car. It’s a problem in labs, too, where something will occasionally chew through some data cable (which was not as serious as when they chewed into the bag of M&M’s left on the lab bench, but try convincing the boss of that). [...]

Ooh, a government conspiracy that involves some of my colleagues.
The time of the winter solstice on 12/21/2012 has been changed from 11:11 to 11:12. Something sinister is obviously afoot.
Given that the Naval Observatory is probably the most precise observatory in the world I find this highly unusual. A minutes change is huge! What’s going [...]

2010 Resolution Generator

League of nations
The prospect of fantasy geopolitics.
Has the GDP grown? Angola and Bhutan’s astonishing growth in the 2008 season are stories that fantasy geopolitics players will not soon forget.
Inflationary measures and exchange rates are also factored in, making Iceland a bad bet to hold this past year due to its economic meltdown. And if you [...]

Ironic Sans: Forensic Reconstruction of Famous Skulls of Fiction
I recently saw an amazing example of forensic reconstruction. A skull had been found, but police were unable to figure out the person’s identity. So a forensic artist examined the skull and created an illustration of what the person may have looked like while alive. When [...]

I just noticed my Dilbert calendar runs out on Dec 31. Apparently Scott Adams is predicting the end of the world.
I have decided that the last shortbread cookie in the box shall be known as the Forlorna-Doone
How do homeopaths treat dehydration?
On the topic of water, I think you could make a fortune peddling a [...]

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