Hah! Someone at work just sent me a link that turned out to be our own erinaceous speaking at TED: [link]
'Bring On The Night'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
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.
This kitten has one seriously weird meow....
Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Kitten Says "Meh" To Everything (VIDEO)
How could the bandwidth for a podcast of This American Life cost $120,000? Couldn't they just have Itunes host it?