Apple offers a "login picture", and on many of my accounts I have a selection of astronomical pictures to choose from, rather than the default set.
Mostly HST images, natch.
So... one evening, sitting on the sofa cuddled up with the laptop, the Dynamic Wife leans over and says: "what's that then?".
"My login picture" says I.
"And what is it?" she asks rhetorically.
"er, a supernova..." says I.
She looks at me.
There is silence.
So, now my login picture is a globular cluster...
one of the nice old Messier ones.
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I'm currently reading "I am a Strange Loop" by Douglas Hofstadter. I'll be posting a review of it after I finish it. A "strange loop" is Hofstadter's term for a Gödel-esque self-referential cycle.
I like MySpace, it brought me over from Friendster and now I use it almost exclusively. I've found old friends, new friends, and also a nasty virus which hijacked my profile last week and used my name to post a bunch of crapola ads on the Message Boards.
They are on the left column and come out of Picasa servers. Yet another part of my life inexorably eaten by the Google Monster.
We want to see all your amazing Intel ISEF photos and videos - from 2007 and from years past. Upload your photos to Flickr.com and upload your videos to YouTube. Once they're up, tag them with the word "intelisef".
I visited my 8-year-old and 10-year-old cousins last Christmas. They went on an eating spree that day. Really.
They also asked me about black holes, if the Sun could become a one, etc. I explained a bit about it to them.
I also gave them nicknames: quasar (the one who eats more) and Seyfert. Their sister, who eats very little, is a LINER. I wrote it down to them and they tried to memorize. Now they know their nicknames, love them and live happily ever after.
Hah, maybe you could be M87's X-ray halo.
oh, and, "the Dynamic Wife"? As opposed to "the Static Wife"?
yeah, but what are you?
Dynamic Wife: chases the Dynamic Kids and of course the Dynamic Cat...
token nod to customary blog pseudonymity.
so I have to wonder; is it M80, or M15? Nice well-behaved King-model (but still with lots of exciting activity), or the devilish core-collapsed type, with perhaps a dark hidden monster? Insights into your personality, perhaps.... ;-)
what am i? i'm easily a nova of some sort. normally dormant, but every so often enough **** falls on my head that i erupt in a violent outburst, before settling down once again.
That's a pretty good, funny and short blog entry. Which globular are you? M5? M13?