Timelies all!
Am posting from a hotel in NJ. We're spending the weekend in the NY-area. The original reason for the trip is to see my brother and his family, who live in the city. We are seeing some friends while we're here.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Sheryl - Aug 28, 2009 4:38:15 pm PDT #6012 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
tommyrot - Aug 28, 2009 4:40:20 pm PDT #6013 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is cool - the first time ever that an individual molecule has been photographed. OK, maybe it's more correct to say it was "imaged", as it wasn't done by collecting photons....
That B&W structure is an actual image of a molecule and its atomic bonds. The first of its kind, in fact, and a breakthrough for the crazy IBM scientists in Zurich who spent 20 straight hours staring at the "specimen"--which in this case was a 1.4 nanometer-long pentacene molecule comprised of 22 carbon atoms and 14 hydrogen atoms.
You can actually make out each of those atoms and their bonds, and it's thanks to this: An atomic force microscope.
Info on how it was done: [link]
sarameg - Aug 28, 2009 4:48:33 pm PDT #6014 of 30001
Fun!
I'm impatiently waiting for Mystery! & Inspector Lynley because I miss certain accents. Damn.
Calli - Aug 28, 2009 5:31:52 pm PDT #6015 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Wow! That's deeply nifty, tommyrot.
Hil R. - Aug 28, 2009 5:33:58 pm PDT #6016 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm reading the article about Memorial Hospital after Katrina. I'm not sure I'm quite in a strong enough mindframe to read this right now.
§ ita § - Aug 28, 2009 5:42:08 pm PDT #6017 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm glad that article was so long, because that helped me not read the whole thing. How horrific.
Hil R. - Aug 28, 2009 6:04:56 pm PDT #6018 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I finished the article. That was truly horrifying.
Dana - Aug 28, 2009 6:34:08 pm PDT #6019 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Sorry, Hil. That was what sent me in search of more statistics the other night. I would have told you not to read it.
sarameg - Aug 28, 2009 6:38:41 pm PDT #6020 of 30001
Anna Pou is a case.
Hil R. - Aug 28, 2009 6:39:50 pm PDT #6021 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Being stuck in a dorm in New Orleans during a much less severe storm was pretty damn scary. I cannot imagine how terrifying it must have been to be in that hospital.
Fuck. Crying.