laundry hamper cat

Or LHC for short.

Also, the other LHC, the Large Hadron Collider in CERN, went online today.

This site amused me: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com

Read the page source for more geek humor.

Then I stumbled upon the plot of Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons, because he staged some of the book around at the LHC site:

“The story involves a conflict between an ancient group, the Illuminati, and the Roman Catholic Church. A film adaptation is due for release on May 15, 2009. The plot follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, as he tries to stop what seems to be the Illuminati, a legendary secret society, from destroying the Vatican City with the newly-discovered power of antimatter.”

What?

According to wikipedia this is book’s “Premise”:
“Robert Langdon is summoned by CERN to investigate a murder victim, branded with the Illuminati ambigram, leading him to discover the cult’s scheme to murder four cardinals and destroy St. Peter’s Basilica during a papal conclave using antimatter.”

I am still at work so it’s taking a significant energy exertion to hold in the laughter.

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sorry spock. you lose to the freaky gourd.

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My coworker’s son is some kind of yoyo phenom:

Ugh. I feel so slow now.

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I’m spending the weekend in Ventura with family. Took all of Friday off and drove down in the morning. Tomorrow, bright and early, we’re taking a boat to Santa Cruz Island for some kayaking, hiking and camping with a return Sunday evening. Considering that I was born in Ventura and looked out at the Channel Islands my entire childhood, it’s surprising to me that I’ve never been out to any of the islands. You know the book Island of the Blue Dolphins? No? Well we had to read it growing up because supposedly it took place on San Nicholas Island. Even my middle school was named after one of the islands: Anacapa. Well I’m happy to finally go. I’ll take lots of pictures.

In the meantime enjoy the following two images, first my sister learned to firedance:

Holy crap! My little sister is swinging fire around on chains. Did you see that move above her head? Nice.

Next, while we were out at dinner tonight my dad ran into a guy that was close friends with my uncle when they were much younger. This friend happens to live next door to the restaurant and we had finished eating so we waved him over for a chat. He looked at me and remarked how much I looked like my dad’s brother. Then, to prove the resemblance, he went and grabbed 3 framed photographs from his house. They used to dive for lobster and this picture shows their day’s haul (I snapped a phonecam pic of it):

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