Dynamic Stall

Eons ago a friend of mine sent me this fun and quick little meme via email. I hope you all play along and respond with your 4-4-4 in the comments!

Come on! What else ya gonna do at work?

4-4-4-4

1. Four places I go to over and over: Work, teach yoga, home, dreamyland

2. Four people who e-mail me regularly: Sandra, Facebook, some guy from Namibia who wants to give me money, real estate spammers

3. Four of my favorite places to eat: Cafe Bizou & In-N-Out Burger in LA, Brasserie du Soleil & Moe’s in Wilmington

4. Four places I would rather be right now: London, Whistler, a place with hills & mountains, a ginormous yacht parked at Wrightsville Beach

5. Four people I think will respond: Christi, Sandra, the Ghost of Christmas Past & Bigfoot

6. Four TV shows I watch over and over: Stargate Atlantis, Farscape, Doctor Who, Science channel anything

Please respond with your answers in the comments!

The LHC was fired up today and it’s first successful test run went with only a small hiccup. Yay! Oh, for those of you not into physics the LHC is the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland. It’s the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It also takes the award for world’s most expensive scientific experiment according to Newsweek.

Here’s a pic of the scientists all agog. the LHC is trying to recreate the Big Bang in an effort to find the Higgs Boson so that we may understand why things have mass.

European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) scientists applaud at the Cern's control center.

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as if you didn’t already notice!

Please let me know if anything is broken or if you have suggestions as to the placement of stuff.

I’m still tweaking and twonking the sidebar, header and adding loads of new plugins to fancy the place up a bit.

Anyone have a favorite plugin or Wordpress hack they’d like to share? I’m all ears.

but otherwise fine although I’m still not capable of sleeping through a nasty storm without the watchful eye of a companion. Thus, I’m up up up and insomniac at 4 AM.

It looks like I’m on the other side of the storm now. Power went out four or five times but only for a couple minutes each time. Here’s a pic from NOAA hopefully it still works by the time you read this.

NOAA Radar Tropical Storm Hann

I’m off to watch bad internet TV now till the winds abate and it’s less noisy for sleeping.

Stumbling around on Stumble Upon I came across this page.

Oh, the humor and, ironically, the truth!