Now I understand why I cannot understand my daughter. She, like her mother, is an alien. They are female, and I have as much chance of understanding a pig with lipstick a duck-billed platypus. Click on the pic to biggerize it.
My daughter is alien to me...
She opened her mouth and uttered some stuff today and I have not even a shred of a clue as to what she said. Either they are aliens or all men are just big dogs that talk.
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The Giant Animal Smasher was fun. Squirrel physics is fun.
Well, I found a physics question regarding squirrels:
The Nano-nut-Dropping Nano-Squirrel
A nano-squirrel on a nano-tree is trying to drop nano-nuts into a small nano-hole directly under itself. If the nano-squirrel is at height H above the ground, if the gravitational acceleration is g, if each nano-nut is a point particle of mass m, and each nano-nut is released with zero initial velocity using the best reproducible nanotechnology, use the position-momentum uncertainty principle to show that, despite the best efforts of the nano-squirrel, the nano-nuts will end up spread over the ground in a region of radius R satisfying the inequality
R >= [ 8 hbar2 H / ( m2 g ) ]1/4 .
where hbar is Planck’s constant.
Source: Professor Henry Greenside – Duke Physics Challenges
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~hsg/physics-challenges/challenges.html
So we can blame Heisenberg for the extinction of nano-squirrels by nano-starvation. Somebody call the nano-brains at PETA.
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Here we learn that (1) squirrels are pretty smart, and (2) they have no taste.
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Lest you feel that we’re focusing on small twitchy mammals too much, here’s a link to the Glass Armonica. It is very surreal and has definite physical bases for why it sounds the way it does.
In case you are wondering, you go from glass to faraday waves to chaos theory to solitons to oscillons and back to faraday waves – here:
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Waves, electromagnetic fields… ohhhhhh yeah. Check out electric fields.
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With a book cover like that, you almost have to go check it out, don’t you? Knitting with dog hair.
That is the perfect example of bait.
Alien. Too funny. My husbandal unit says the same thing about me. Says the huge head is a red flag. I’m glad I was able to incubate a female child in this atmosphere, otherwise I would have noone to communicate with.
You nailed it –> a big ol’ floppy dog.
Ha — I crochet, and have many times said that on the next project, I’m going to eliminate the yarn companies entirely and start straight-off with cat hair … can’t believe how much ends up in there without my even trying.
I think cat fur is the one thing in the universe that is never ever ever found in a neutral state. Always charged, always sticking to something.
I’m surprised cats don’t get zapped by lightning more.
Wait a minute… could the charge issue have any relationship to their ability to always land rightside up….?
I heard it was this:
http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/humor/buttercat.html