finally i have found the full version of this pic

more pics for today

disturbingly mesmorising
aah Venice... very wet
those wacky stormtroopers
cockney ATM

thank you and good evening

and unrelated.. some wonderfully crisp aeroplane porn
and even more unrelated... kitty wigs

What men, what atheletes! The 2009 world sauna championship. A field of mostly fins stayed over 3 minutes in a sauna set at 110C, aparrently. Worth a watch. The music is great and it is a real spectator's sport!

Arnie still has the Conan Sword

It is in his office.

Bee's Knees

Etymology

Slang coined in the 1920s. Stories in circulation about the phrase’s origin include: “b’s and e’s”, short for “be-alls and end-alls”; and a corruption of “business”.

A modern misinterpretation of the B’s and E’s and as such has become a piece of slang in its own right.

B’s and E’s pronounced with many colloquial English accents, would be combined as a single Bees-an-ees. The actual saying, “the be all and end all” is still in use in the UK and Australia. The very latest and best, something that cannot be improved upon.

Good enough for Benjemin Franklin

Good enough for me. Enlightenment thinking!

evil baby

cocaine bar

Lazy Irish Shits

This is just descriptive of the Irish. They may be lovely people but if you ask them to do anything that is not part of their job description it is like pulling teeth.

Today i needed to get my dewar filled with liquid nitrogen. I put it at the LN station and usually it is filled by after lunch. Today however, no such luck. There is a queue of dewars, still waiting to be filled. So i go to the building nearest and find someone who knows who is supposed to fill up the dewars. After a few redirects i find out that the guy who is supposed to do it is away, but they direct me to someone who is also qualified to do a LN fill. OK, good. The school of chemistry has two qualified people for occaions like this. I get in touch with the guy and he jaws and complains about how he is so busy and that 150 L will take forever to fill. He saw the one of mine there and thought it was 50L and blah blah blah. Well contrary to my usual inclination i didn't say well thats okay i will wait till tomorrow. Well, it is important the microscope will warm up if i dont.

So the lazy shit is going ot fill me about 30 litres later this afternoon out of the goodness of his heart.

fuckin' paddy shite

Old Guy Mags.

Totaly classy, I love it!

Nintendo fan videos

WTF?!?

This guy has a cool livejournal full of art. He is from Melbourne

Bagger 288

Just for the caption

For those who don't want to wear an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini, Aheda Zanetti has designed the bigsy wigsy sunny screeny crimson plain polyester burqini.

Mario

Unfortunatley this is an imaging artifact. but it does seem quite pretty.

Nature Boy

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy
And sad of eye
But very wise
Was he

And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return"

The Book Seer

He will tell you what to read next!

Stop Calling Me

Yesterday Jules asked me to stop calling her so much. She didn't even say it in person but in one of her usual half capitalized SMS messages which give the distinct feeling that you are being shouted at. I couldn't believe it. I have been calling her once each day because I wanted to talk about stuff. Nothing important, just be in touch. I have been calling her once each day and she hasn't answered for maybe two weeks. It doesn't seem like i am asking much . She says that she doesn't have anything to say and doesn't feel llike talking. I guess that is okay for a while. But i have been dealing with that rationalization for some time. Sure, she is not feeling good about things, but after a while my sympathy starts to harden and her attitude just seems selfish to me. We are, in the end, married. You would think that this road of giving was supposed to go two ways. But i feel like all the time i am just continually giving and giving. Giving from what i thought was an unending well, but lately it seems like maybe it is half empty.

So she says that she will come along to meet me on my immanent trip to London "as I requested". The language is loaded, and stupid me I never know if it is loaded to get me to burst and be angry thus taking the blame away from her. Or if it is loaded because she doesn't want to come at all. Probably both. Ultimately i dont really feel like i want her to come at all. It is like the awkwardness of going out for a night with your ex girlfriend, except this is my (estranged?) wife. Who would have thought that only a couple of months apart could do this to us. I really played this game badly, and i dont mean the game since i have been away from jules. But the game of life, where i chose a partner and thought that it was going to be a sure thing. I guess maybe i always had the feeling. Maybe that is just hindsight.

Anyway, next post back to the usual procession of inane links.

Well I guess adopting the holy orders and devoting your life to God is great and all, but when you've spent your entire natural life chokeslamming dillholes spine-first onto the Great Pyramid of Cheops, some times old habits are a little hard to break.

What if cartoon characters were real?

Paper ready for go

The closing work from my time at the Cavendish is ready for publication. Henning has been kind enough to do a bit of the polishing for me which is nice. So I have been busy the last few days putting the figures into their final configuration and getting all of the references ready. This here is figure one. the part a) shows the molecular sturcture of the pBTTT molecule emphasising that the side chains like to interdigitate, which allows it to become much more crystalline than some other polymers. The part b) shows a schematic of the ribbons that this polymer self assembles into. the ribbons are made of lots of the molecules stacked up. But intebween the ribbons there are faults in the crystal structure. These faults allow for the trapping of positive charges called holes. The paper then goes on to show that we can actually use SKPM to view the holes and the watche them slowly detrap. So, I am happy with the paper. Now I am going to give it a final read over and send it off to the co-authors to get their okay.

physics porn

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how people spend their day

the hot waitress index

people prefer to watch cooking than to do it
I used to loke cooking. but it becomes a chore if you are only cooking for one.

why bother looking around a gallery?
sometimes you just get swamped. institutional fatigue.

i really like this guys art

Videos of the day

Chocolate Bunny from lernert Engelberts on Vimeo.

Revenge from lernert Engelberts on Vimeo.

There is a museum in the building I work in. It is called the science gallery. Every few months they put up a new exhibition. Just this week an exhibition called bubble has opened. I haven't looked at all of the exhibits, but they seem fun. Hanging out to go with Jules. She always enjoys these types of things, and i enjoy doing them with her. She always gives her all at these things. Looking forward to it. Soon.