Source: observando
Source: observando
hate to say it..
but I don’t particularly like my sisters friends. But then again I don’t particularly like people in general right now. Such an obnoxious group of pasty white people. Oh, I shouldn’t say that. They’re really nice. I just find their humor insufficient for their immaturity…oh. I need to stop. Guess I just miss my friends and home. Gah I’m missing New York like a freaking…argh. I’m way too sensitive to implied insults and I’m so, so, so angry at nothing (well, nothing much, I think), I just can’t deal with this. I want my books. I want my classes. I want just two keys on a lanyard and a big green mug of green tea. Argh. Just a few more months, right?
But back to my main complaint: their sexual innuendos are simply childish. Middle-school-esque. Just shameful.
Anyways. Watching The Empire Strikes Back. Life has gotten better in the last hour..
sidenote: I really like my (other) sister’s new guy. He seems like an overwhelmingly decent person.
I have a new print ‘Pleiades’ available from Knee Deep in Sleep.
Edition of 50 -signed, embossed and supplied with a certificate of authenticity.
Printed on Hahnemühle PhotoRag 310gsm paper. 59 x 42 cm
Please click on the link or the image for further information. http://bit.ly/tLtw0H
Source: byroglyphics
Glamorous NY that never crosses my dash.
Photo: Alec Tabak
Source: Flickr / alectabak
Happy Birthday, Electron (Theory)
120 years ago this month, Hendrik Lorentz published his landmark paper that laid out the basis for “electron theory”. This was not proof of the electron as a particle, as that didn’t happen until 1897, thanks to J.J. Thomson.
Lorentz took the collected equations of James Clerk Maxwell and distilled their mess into simple rules of charge and motion. It laid the groundwork for Einstein’s special relativity, and allowed fields like materials and electronics to exist.
It was elegant work, a melding of a half century’s worth of varied influences and observations, distilled into simple equations that spawned entirely new fields of physics. A true collaboration of curiosity.
Einstein himself said of Lorentz: “For me personally he meant more than all the others I have met on my life’s journey.”
(via Scientific American. Of course, Lorentz would know that electrons look nothing like what I drew above.)
Source: scientificamerican.com
