time reversal

I’ve been pretty…busy…recently preparing applications for various fellowships, and it looks like it will just get worse before it gets better. So I apologize to anybody who has been looking for me to post something to prove that I am indeed alive and well.

I’m afraid I don’t have much to speak about that is very interesting or enlightening. One interesting thing has come up, now that I have written a thesis whenever I am asked to describe my research last year it is SO much easier. It’s now one of those funny moments (which I have never experienced before) where I am asked to write only a page about it, where now I know for a fact I could write 80 pages about it.

I’ve become sadly swamped with work during the week, but I made the time this weekend to go with one of my roommates and visit kitties at the local SPCA….this Thursday Einstein will have a new friend whose name has yet to be determined. Suggestions for Kris are welcome and if you post them here I will pass them along - she is a black cat whose fur is somehow both black and grey at the same time - it might be that she is some sort of demonic spawn…or maybe she is just cool like that.

I finished Brisingr the other day, and if you are anything like me and enjoy the occasional children’s fantasy book I would say it is worth reading. Also I finally saw Hellboy 2 and it was quite awesome as well. For some reason the movie I am most looking forward to at the moment is Max Payne. (Wow, I forgot how violent that game is.) I know it’s going to be bad, but that was probably one of the most fun games I have ever played. I’ve never seen a game since the max paynes take itself so seriously that it was obvious they were mocking themselves with their over the top cutscenes and dialog. I think Penny-Arcade showed off what was most awesome about the game in these two strips.

In keeping with this being a physics blog and all, did you know the second used to be defined as 1/86400 of the average day on earth? How did physicists ever think that was a reasonable thing to do? The more I think about it they should have based it off some number of human heartbeats. Then at least we could talk about people not having “enough time” in a way that made sense. Sorry for that morbid thought, but I think maybe basing it off a pendulum or something would have been better.

a late goodbye

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