The House actually made a bold decision this year. Way to be a Republic, America.

I’m becoming obsessed with editing this movie - that does not bode well for my life.

Subject: make me a zombie (ill destroy all)

alligatortower:

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:24 PM, javad k**** wrote:
im not shy

On Nov 6, 2009, at 1:25 PM, HvZ Site Hosting wrote:
Thanks for letting us know. You should talk to your moderators about this one :D
Thanks, 
Joe Sklover

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:34 PM, javad k**** wrote:
how i go to uga

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Max Temkin  wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_signal

Just doing some customer service. Why are you sweating so much? It’s not even hot in here.

Joel Salatin @ TEDx

This was my favorite talk yesterday. @Nique and I went to Joel’s farm in Swoope, VA.

“We live in a culture today that doesn’t ask about the essence of pig. They simply ask how can we grow it faster fatter bigger cheaper.”

“If we devote ourselves to sacredness and honor and nobility of personal ministry in our vocations - the world will rise to meet us.”

Large Hadron Collider Shut Down

The LHC at CERN has been shut down for the third time after a piece of baguette dropped from a bird’s beak onto a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in parts of the accelerator.

The theory that, if activated, CERN will generate time-traveling particles that will prevent their own discovery (thus creating a paradox such that the LHC will never be able to be activated) is really starting to freak me out. Some bits from that NYT article:

While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus. In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldn’t be trying to make one.

“For those of us who believe in physics,” Einstein once wrote to a friend, “this separation between past, present and future is only an illusion.”

[…]

As Niels Bohr once told a colleague: “We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”

Yes, I know that this theory is speculative and crazy, but the LHC was just prevented from operation (yet again) by a BIRD DROPPING A BAGUETTE IN TO IT.

Any thoughts, science friends?

Reminder: You can watch the live TEDx MidAtlantic stream right here.

Chris and I are having a blast. I have a ton of energy.