300 Big Boys

No I am not talking about a Frank Miller comic or a movie based thereon or even the excellent Samurai Jack episode. Check out this website to see if you should spend your next tax refund in the same inspired way Fry did here:

I choose neither.

I suppose this article is working on proving Darwin wrong, at least if you assume that the intelligent are more likely to be successful in our society. That is assuming of course that since humans are a product of nature, everything we do is part of nature.

And I got a new plot to post next to my plot correlating the average global temperature to the number of pirates.

What do New Zealand and Switzerland Have In Common

Not only is most of the Swiss sailing team from New Zealand (they are suprisingly excited about sailing over here) but much more importantly let me introduce you to the village of Lauterbrunnen:


Does that look at all familiar to you? Think about a big stream flowing though the center, an elaborately carved caslte to the right, and a lot of elves running about. Still not quite there, wel let me give you a visual guide:


Welcome to Rivendell! Allow for Tolkien's fantasy and I would say that is about as close as it gets. So Switzerland has something else to offer than cheese and chocolate, although that is already pretty good :)

ATLAS Movies

Well it appears my workplace has decided to make a few movies about ATLAS and the LHC, hopefully to raise public awareness, and maybe to debunk some of the myths that have been building up during the lengthy construction of this new accelerator. Check out the videos on the ATLAS YouTube site. They are pretty cheesy (and some of the stuff they say is actually wrong) but either way the videos are awesomely geeky, or geekely awesome.

When I got back from lunch today I saw this:



and thought it must be a sign that this afternoon my code will work. And life will be good.

It is good to be a geek

Well it looks like next year will be a celebration of awesome:

1.) You know ...
2.) Fallout 3 (I'm giddy)
3.) LHC (I work every now and then you know ;)

And talking about awesome. It's a tribute to TBS really is.

I <3 Blizzard

This is the happiest day of my life.