By now, you ought to have heard about A/2017 U1 – a large rock that whipped through our solar system at an odd angle off the plane of the ecliptic, moving so fast that it almost certainly could not have come from within our solar system. [rt]
Someone over on facebook did an edit of a music video, and – in thoughtless and talentless homage – accidentally shat all over it. Don’t re-favorite it.
All my life I’ve been embarrassingly lucky. Ever since I did such a fantastic job of picking my parents, I just seem to stumble into the things I need when I need them. I don’t kid myself that it’s anything to do with skill or merit but I’ll take it. Some of you may hate me by the end of this posting, but I’ll try to make it up to you.
Yesterday we went out for dinner, then had a private tour of Yerkes Observatory, up in Williams Bay, WI.
If you like numbers and charts and stuff, you’re going to love FredBlog! [fredblog]
Various links of weirdness led me to this collection of wonders:
It’s been hypothesized for a long time. Rogue black holes.
I don’t believe in god, but I sure believe in dog.
These are incredible artworks, by “Holy Smoke”
If you’re not familiar with Derek Lowe’s “In the Pipeline” blog, you should be. Whether you’re a chemist or not, his writing is witty and wonderful and breathes zing and pizazz into, uh, your breath-mask. [things I won’t work with]
I’ve keynoted and attended a lot of conferences in the course of my career. So, naturally, a piece of spam that looks like it’s a conference invitation goes right through my bayesian spam classifier.