It seems that the sausages, electrostatically speaking, are close approximations of the human finger.
Category Archives: Weird
The Thing Geeks Worry About
So we have dinner, take down a couple of plates, wash them, dry them, put them back. Have soup more rarely, take down a couple of bowls–big? small?–put them back.
And this is what I sometimes worry about: do I put them back on top of the stack? Do I put the bowls back in the empty front spot on the shelf? Because if I do that, then guess which dishes are going to get reached for the next time? That’s right, the same ones.
So do I rotate them, put the dishes away at the bottom of the stack? Because the glass dessert plates are underneath the glass dessert bowls, and that means lifting the entire thing up and/or out to put the plates underneath. And the dinner plates are kind of snug under a rack that holds the salad plates, not so easy to get–anyway, I’m rationalzing now; the reality is, I don’t really rotate the dishes that much. Not as much as I feel I should.
Cthulhu Calling
The Bloop, which has its own Wikipedia page (OK, what interesting subject doesn’t, the Wikipedia Paradox notwithstanding?)
Aaaaanyway …
[T]he sound is believed to be coming roughly from 50oS; 100oW. After reading that, I wondered how close that was to the coordinates given in “The Call of Cthulhu”. Allow me to quote: “Then, driven ahead by curiosity in their captured yacht under Johansen’s command, the men sight a great stone pillar sticking out of the sea, and in S. Latitude 47°9′, W. Longitude l23°43′, come upon a coastline of mingled mud, ooze, and weedy Cyclopean masonry which can be nothing less than the tangible substance of earth’s supreme terror – the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, that was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.”
Also: NOAA: A Collection of Sounds from the Sea
Spectrographs of underwater sounds, including The Bloop
Whisky Tango Foxtrot, Norway?
My first reaction was “Photoshop,” because it’s just too good. But there are other pictures taken by many people. So I discard that hypothesis.
Adultery is Good for Physics
An unexpected result of Tiger practicing his putting on someone else’s green.
Tiger Woods drives sales of physics book sky-high
A photograph showing a copy of Get A Grip On Physics by John Gribbin on the floor of Tiger Woods’s wrecked SUV has seen the book rocket up Amazon’s bestseller chart
Creative Soap
Blowing Up Weird Stuff
Billed as “the world’s first inflatable pub”, this pub in a box holds up to 50 guests (or 200 college students), fits in the back of a van, and assembles in under an hour. All pub-like features are painted directly onto the PVC walls (now anti-fungal and flame retardant!). The pub also have a built-in fire escape. It can cost up to $ 28,000 but what the hell, it’s an inflatable pub!
Boy Scouts or the Army?
Letters of Note: Prepare For Contact
1924 telegram from then Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, Edward W. Eberle, instructing all Naval stations to monitor the airwaves for any unusual transmissions due to anticipated contact from Martians. August 22nd of that year was witness to the closest Mars opposition since 1804
Drilling for Whisky
Ernest Shackleton’s whisky aged, well chilled in Antarctica
A bid will be made to drill through Antarctica’s ice to reach a lost cache of Scotch whisky that has been on rocks for a century – since it was delivered to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.
Drillers will try to reach two crates of Mackinlay and Co. whisky that were shipped to the Antarctic by Shackleton as part of his unsuccessful 1907-1909 expedition.
Would a successful expedition have had more or less whisky?
Drop the Chalupa
Customs officers find a chihuahua being smuggled in a duffel.
‘In my 20-odd years in customs I have never seen a dog going through a customs machine.’