Schroedinger’s avocado: you’re thinking about guacamole. There’s an avocado on the refrigerator. Someone may or may not have already made guacamole. Until you open the refrigerator door to check, the avocado exists simultaneously as both whole AND all mashed up. Kinda like Schroedinger’s cat, only tastier.
Cat baths and other hazardous activities
Giving a cat a bath is like trying to sharpen a chain saw while it’s running. It will not end well.
~ Tom Plumpton
Choose wisely
You’re all seen Google Ads on the side of various web pages. This is what I saw today:
CUSTOM GENE SYNTHESIS
5 free DNA sequencing reactions with every synthetic gene order
If you see something strange as you’re walking around, perhaps this is the reason. It could be that someone did not choose wisely.
Casting
“My life has a superb cast but I can’t figure out the plot.”
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Reversible knitting
I was in a bookstore today, and saw a book with the title “Reversible Knitting.” I don’t knit, but I thought, “Brilliant! You make something, you get tired of it, and then you un-knit it and turn it into something else!”
Sadly, that wasn’t what it was about at all.
All the kids are doing it!
The Arctic Oscillation is either a meteorological term, or the latest dance craze. Take your pick.
… and which parallel universe is THIS?
If there is an infinite number of alternate universes, in one of them there is a universe which does not have an infinite number of alternate universes.
This paradox will keep me awake tonight thinking about it. Well, OK, probably not me, personally, but some alternate version of me will be fretting about it somewhere.
Season’s Greetings!
Best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most joyous traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, but with respect for the religious persuasion of others who choose to practice their own religion as well as those who choose not to practice a religion at all.
In which I get my viewing of epic movies all confused
Watching Avatar. They haven’t spotted the iceberg yet.
Oh, wait, that was another James Cameron epic. Never mind.
A new slogan for Lunesta?
I just saw an ad for Lunesta, the prescription sleep aid whose side effects include possible dependency, sleepwalking (or eating, or driving), aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion, allergic reaction, risk of suicide, unpleasant taste, dizziness, headache, and morning drowsiness.
So I have a new slogan for them:
“Lunesta. Sleep like a baby! An addicted, sleepwalking, aggressive, agitated, hallucinating, confused, suicidal, dizzy, headachy and somewhat drowsy baby!”