Daily Archives: April 9, 2009

Important Physics Public Service Announcement

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Ten things to do In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson

6. If the Higgs boson begins creating mass in your esophagus or stomach before you reach a hospital, you will need to perform an immediate bosonectomy on yourself. Luckily, surgical knowledge is not necessary. Just choose from the array of probable outcomes that will manifest themselves upon your decision to perform surgery, and make the one most favourable to yourself into reality. Be sensible—do not wait for the outcome in which you successfully remove the boson and win the lottery and grow wings.

Bosonectomies aren’t nearly as complicated as the corresponding operation, a Fermiplasty. The Pauli exclusion principle applies to the latter, so a hospital can only treat one patient at a time.

Colour My World

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All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts

Crayola crayons currently come in 120 colors including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 coppers, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold and 1 silver. Although Crayola crayons come in 120 different colors, the labels are only made in 18, which cover the full color spectrum. Nearly 3 billion crayons are made each year, an average of 12 million daily. That’s enough to circle the globe 6 times with color!

Also, the Hex and RGB values of the crayons.

Seeing in the Dark

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On Saturday after the Open House, I stopped off at the Marine Corps memorial (depicting the flag-raising at Iwo Jima) to take some long-exposure photos. (“Long” in this case is ~5 seconds) I pass by it every day going to and from work, but had never actually stopped. Lots of tourists there, even at 10 PM on a Saturday.

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From that area there’s a view of the Capitol almost lined up with the Lincoln memorial and Washington monument.

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