Thursday, September 29, 2005

Soup's On

We are gett'n Mad Mushroom for dinner. Who's in?

Interesting Linky

OBoyle Photo: Shows modern ruins. I found Holy Land, USA to be a bit distrubing.

Monday, September 26, 2005

Friday?

Been out of it for a week, so my mind is completely gone. Are we due to play this Friday evening?

Thursday, September 22, 2005

If someone had thought of this sooner latch-hook might still be popular today...

Check out these archived images from the exhibition Trashy at The Woman Made Gallery in Chicago. Very interesting...

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Good Thing

It's a good thing that at least one of our arcane magic users doesn't read OOTS. I am of course talking about the one who is now 8th, soon to be 9th level, not the one who slings rocks. Did you all see strip#220?

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Midweek Linkies

I've ran across some pretty good sites that I thought I'd share; hope you enjoy!

Steve Don't Eat It!: One man's struggle to eat every disgusting food type in the grocery store and then some. The fermented soybeans are heinous and the corn blight is just disgusting - NOT recommended lunchtime viewing. (Learn from my mistakes...)

Indiana State Museum Lord of the Rings Exhibit Setup Blog: Blog about setting up the Lord of the Rings museum exhibit that's due to open next month. Much less disgusting than my first linky, but not as "I'm-stuck-in-my-cube-and-cannot-laugh" worthy. :)

Monday, September 12, 2005

This Friday, the 16th

Last week things were up in the air with Saphira and the BOD, I don't know if they have resolved anything, but we made other plans for this Friday. I hope that is okay with everyone.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

The Physics of Hell

I'm sure this is one of those things that has been forwarded around a bazillion times, but just in case you haven't seen it...

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington Chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was "so profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats). One student wrote the following answer:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.

Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that: "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze.

The student received the only "A" given.