Sunday, November 21, 2010

In the evening...

It's a strange night here at Chez McGhandi, not externally so much as internally. I had a hell of a weekend, most of it spent unconscious. This is not a bad thing. It was an unrelenting week. New project after new project, meeting after meeting, student conference after student conference. I have not had a chance to work on my own scholarship for a while now, and I am concerned that I will not be able to for a little while yet. On Friday I was watching on the couch watching an episode of Dr. Who season 5, and at some point my brain said, "Bing, you sleep now." Then I imagine there was an audible thud. About half an hour later, I came to in the least comfortable position ever achieved on a couch and decided that I should go to bed. It was really early for me--no later than 7:00 by then--and I slept. I knew I was going to sleep, just not so much.


At any rate, I am trying to get across the idea that I slept like a crazy person this weekend. I got some work done, never as much as I would like, but a good deal of work. Most of it of a grading nature.

There was a meeting of the Atlanta Skeptics this weekend. Bart Farkas, Development Officer of the JREF was there, and he introduced us to the sorts of applications that the JREF received for the Million Dollar Challenge. Some are out there. Really quite remarkably far out there. Like once they received an application in macramé. Yeah.

Here. Enjoy Time Cube:


HJ

5 comments:

William said...

I just finished season 4 of Dr. Who!

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Ithonicfury said...

I really miss Unscrewed, Martin's ability to interview somebody while making fun of them without them noticing was great.

There was an episode where he went to a crop circle with a stick and convinced the people that it had absorbed alien energy and that it was vibrating and warm, and of course they felt it when he handed it to them...

He also interviewed the leader of the Raelians

Plus they taught how to make a flamethrower out of a super soaker and how to make gloves with a built in taser, or to add a dog shock collar to a game controller.

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