"Modern astronomers need to know a lot of physics. Unfortunately, the typical curriculum in most graduate astronomy departments leaves little time for the student to learn this material through formal course work. Ideally, while in graduate school, a prospective astronomer with a thorough preparation in undergraduate physics and mathematics would ( Read more... )

The world is full of beauty.

I am a sexy Edward vampire. I am not a sexy Edwardian vampire. I have a pale marble body sunburnt to blood red, to compliment my vampire looks. I am not French. I am obsessed with how rude the French are. I can not walk, yet I can walk now.

I am a man of My Family. I am stumbling with my sisters through the streets of ( Read more... )

Am I a good person? I don't think so. What is the point of doing an action that is genuinely good for another human being (be it help or work or what have you) if you are just going to tell someone about it, just so that you look better? I do this, I hope unconciously, as a habit. AND if I don't tell someone, it is my act of not telling anybody ( Read more... )

You can now make more money than your grandparents ever did. You can also drive really fast, and you can change your sex. You can find friends without having to go to church, and you can see movies in your own house. You can get pictures of naked people almost anywhere, and you can curse out loud freely. You can buy dinner in a box and not have to ( Read more... )

Over the past couple days I have been trying to change my picking style from standard alternate jazz to a Sinti-style gypsy picking.
And, unsurprisingly, it's hard!

Take anything you've been doing every day for a couple of years, like brushing your teeth. A good example for this, I think, is learning to brush properly; instead of up and down (like ( Read more... )

I've found my own mountain to stand on / oh I've made my own song to sing
and though I don't know where I'm going / I'll always know where I've been.

Using one hand to take a long pull from his hip-flask of Giggle Water, leaving his other hand whapping nonchalantly in the wind and the bouncing of the road, and using his knees to steer the stolen limousine up a small rocky hill, Garret Rabinak cut a rather imposing (though currently rapidly vibrating) figure on any first glance. His eyes were ( Read more... )

Listen to this.

Cavaradossi (al Sagrestano)
Dammi i colori!
(Il Sagrestano eseguisce. Cavaradossi dipinge con rapidità e si sofferma spesso a riguardare il proprio lavoro: il Sagrestano va e viene, portando una catinella entro la quale continua a lavare i pennelli)
(A un tratto Cavaradossi si ristà di dipingere; leva di tasca un medaglione ( Read more... )

Bliss it is in this dawn to be alive.

"... This must only hold true for very small values of infinity."

Hm.
A useful resource.