Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yeah, Lisa, I recommend against falling. It is overrated as a course of action.
We don't have ac at all here, but lots of ceiling fans, and with the day/night temperature swings we get, so far so good. We just open up the windows at night and close them first thing in the morning. Which reminds me, I need to finish washing the windows and putting in the screens. Not happening today, though, we've got 35mph winds again.
I just almost typed \\o/ in an IM to an associate.
I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have gotten it.
Hah! Someone at work just sent me a link that turned out to be our own erinaceous speaking at TED: [link]
Question for some of our craftier buffistae:
We made tie dye t-shirts at a party this weekend, and were sent home with wet shirts, still tied, in baggies. What do I do with them? Wash and then dry? Or just dry?
I think air dry completely first, Burrell, then wash and dry again.
Ooh, thanks Barb.
I think barb is right. I vauguely remember doing it that way as a kid.
I agree with Barb
I stopped by the department admin's desk to score a doughnut (leftover from today's meeting) only to find she also had fruit leftover from last Friday's meeting. When I asked her if those were available for snagging, she gave me a bag and told me to take the whole lot. Four oranges and two apples for free--yay!
Popular Giant Star Shrinks Mysteriously
In 1993, measurements put Betelgeuse's radius at about 5.5 astronomical units (AU), where one AU equals the average Earth-sun distance of 93 million miles, or about 150 million km. Since then it has shrunk in size by 15 percent. That means the star's radius has contracted by a distance equal to the orbit of Venus.