Everyone’s favorite mustelid (Weasel from sweasel.com) said she was so going to steal a quote and by golly I liked it. The image wouldn’t leave my mind.
This is nowhere near what I had in mind but I had to work tonight, so this is ten minute’s worth of “I care, sort of”. Think of it as a placeholder.
If you have a physics background, please note the redshifted photon…
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I am shocked… SHOCKED…
As activists from groups as wide-ranging as the Girl Scouts and the World Council on Churches converge on the climate change conference in Copenhagen, some critics say it’s turning into a “circus” sideshow, with 20,000 attendees creating an international echo chamber of climate piety. – foxnews (because no one else will report anything but fuzzy puppies, rainbows, and unicorns)
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The White House is really thin-skinned lately. Challenging the performance of The One is heretical, I guess.
Asked for a response to Monday’s tracking poll, which placed Obama’s approval numbers among the lowest of any recent president in December of his first year in office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs mocked the reliability of the widely respected polling firm.
“I tell you, if I was a heart patient and Gallup was my EKG, I’d visit my doctor,” Gibbs said. “If you look back, I think five days ago, there was an 11-point spread, now there’s a 1-point spread. I mean, I’m sure a 6-year-old with a crayon could do something not unlike that. I don’t put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is the daily Gallup trend.”
He added: “I don’t pay a lot of attention to the meaninglessness of it.”
Love that “… a 6-year-old with a crayon could do something not unlike that…”
Oh, like the hockey stick graph then? I don’t pay a lot of attention to the meaninglessness of it.
His wording is telling. Looks like Gibby has been attending his assertiveness workshops.
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Shot tea out my nose and closely following that were my appendix and spleen.
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The Dude was suggesting we use this for the door to the server room at work. No idea where the graphic came from.
I love the wave/particle duality. Only a particle can leave a splotch.
My take: I have crossed the event horizon of fucked.
Only a particle can splotch, sweat, cry, and poop it’s little quantum pants, too. Another thing going for ’em.
Being in optics/mechanics, I love the song:
“I’m just a Quantum Cowboy… riding the Free Spectral Range… Etalon, little doggie!”
Etalons, mmmm, tasty. I was trying to teach one of my newbies in the use of a VISAR. I asked, “what’s the velocity per fringe constant for that set of etalons?”
The answer… face palm. I surrender, I really do.
Don’t give in to despair… that leads to the dark side.
I tell every new engineer “If you haven’t sketched it out on paper first, you got no business going near a computer. A computer is the LAST step in the process unless you want to end up looking like an asshole.”
Seriously, the old dogs caught more by drafting by hand because they had to think about why every line was where it was. Sure, it took longer, but not longer than redoing the damned thing three times.
For some reason I’m reminded of House quote: Arrogance has to be earned. Tell me what you’ve done to earn yours.
I guess you could tell ’em, you gotta work for it, earn it.
What are Etalons? Are they anything like Thetans?
When your etalon level exceeds that of Tom Cruise’s thetan levels, you get to punch him in the nose and say “THAT was for Mission Impossible I, II, and III – AND – for that embarrassing appearance on Oprah. And let us have Katie Holmes back!”
Sorry. Sore spot.
I’ll give a def of etalons after I get home. Gotta get some stuff out the door. Short explanation is that they are a resonance filter and separate frequencies based on a variety of different variables (too many, at times). They form the basis for many interferometer systems, and you will hear them referred to as Fabry-Perot Etalons, most commonly.
Nice graphic….snorted when I read Allen’s contribution. Reminds me a bit of a friend’s saying:”I am so far out of your league that, if your league exploded, I wouldn’t hear it for three days.” 😀
I am appalled to say the Girl Scouts have become an arm of Planned Parenthood and ecowackos ever since they became a public organization. They are now trying to get rid of “God” in their pledge.
Robert Gibbs is a poor imitation of Baghdad Bob, but entertaining, nonetheless.
The graphic I saw over at McGoo’s, a pic or so after your cat. 🙂