Man caught changing traffic lights
Man caught changing traffic lights - This guy was changing traffic lights for two years with something called an Opticon, and was only charged $50 when caught. I would think it would be way way more.
Man caught changing traffic lights - This guy was changing traffic lights for two years with something called an Opticon, and was only charged $50 when caught. I would think it would be way way more.
In the grand Tumbledry tradition, I bring you another round of “5 Questions.” Five questions is presented here on a very irregular schedule; that is, whenever I think of it. It is a tumbledry feature, just like “Food at the Binz” or “boring posts about my life” (the latter category receives many many entries). For those of you who are new to the game: the first five questions asked of me via the comments attached to this post will be answered. Plain and simple.
I will leave a comment below to answer the questions after five have accumulated. If I have not yet written answers, yet 5 questions have been asked, you may still write questions — but there are no guarantees about whether you will receive a response.
Ask away.
Credit to Jimmy Eat World for these lyrics. On their newest (amazing) EP “Stay On My Side Tonight” (recommended by tumbledryer Nils) is a great song called “Closer.” The lyrics follow.
Every day I get a little closer dear
Will you love me darling when I get there
I’ll need sunshine
I’ll need rest
Pour us whiskey, water, kiss
Remember me she said smiling
Write my name somewhere safe
Touch and taste fades with space
I’ll never be who you dream
Every day I try a little harder dear
But those things you do I don’t wanna hear
You’ll have yours I’ll have mine
No one guilty
No one right
Every day I get a little closer dear
Gonna drive fast all night ‘til I get there
Not much time we can waste
Nothing pretty left to say
Mentos in Diet Coke Explodes - An NPR investigation with video and a scientific explanation for this strangeness. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got an experiment to do now.
Jesus may have settled down in Japan - I must stress the use of “legend” in this _opinion— column. I think the most interesting aspect of this story is Jesus as a traveler, who knew many cultures. Thank you, wise Sagert Sheets, for your link to this. Japan truly is awe-inspiringly strange sometimes (I speak of their blindingly bright packaging, etc.) I would love to visit.
From: Micek, Alexander J.
Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 11:50 AM
To: Dr. West
Subject: Lab Schedule
Hello,
Just checking - we have no lab this week, but lab next week (I’m in the Thursday afternoon lab), correct?
Thanks,
Alex
From: Dr. West
Sent: Tue 4/11/2006 11:54 AM
To: Micek, Alexander J.
Subject: Lab Schedule
Alex,
Actually, this week, labs that normally meet on Thursdays will meet this Tuesday, and labs that normally meet Tuesdays will be next Wednesday.
Just kidding, you are correct.
Today in quantitative chemistry, the lecture topic was the difference between detectors in common spectrography equipment. One detector (the photomultiplier tube) is extremely sensitive, while the other (the photo diode array) is significantly less sensitive (but cheaper). So the professor proposed the following question:
If a PMT yields a limit of detection of 2 zeptomoles (10E-21) and a PDA has an LOD of 1 picomole (10E-12), how much more sensitive is one than the other?
I said “about one billion times” and another kid said “2.” Thankfully, I got the answer right, but I got to thinking about it. I mean, this kid was 500 million off from the right answer. And he wasn’t 500 million units away from the answer - no - he was off by a factor of 500 million. He responded with “oh … whoops.”
He saw the humor, and we all had a good laugh.
Great idea, great photoshop - This great picture flawlessly merges images of an iPod and Swiss Army knife to give the appearance of a great idea: an iPod with flip-out multi-tools on its sides.
Calvin and Hobbes - More! - Look at this: the Calvin and Hobbes on my birthday in 1993. Just start messing around with the dates in the URL, and you can find quite a few comics in this link. With a name like “transmogrifier.org,” that’s not surprising. A rather hidden archive of Calvin and Hobbes.
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