Ooh, thanks Barb.
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.
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?
Whoa thunderstorm. With hail. Cooled things nicely off, if making the power a little flickery. Now that the rain isn't going sideways, have all the windows open.
The bathroom is really noisy in a hailstorm.
Unfortunate phrasing on the radio: "Springer was allegedly killed in Iraq by someone..."
Surely he was actually killed. It may be a point of allegation as to who did it, but death of soldiers is pretty well into the factual realm.
Timelies all!
Am quite tired of rain and thunderstorms.(Got woken up this working by thunder, followed soon after by Nova meeping at the door)