Not since the fabled Giotto circle (sometimes attributed to Da Vinci), has anything so perfect been created by hand.
Category: Geekdom
Universe Today
I just signed up for a new RSS feed for UniverseToday
One of the things on their blog right now is this:
Apparently some dude took a look at the Cat’s Eye Nebula and through careful scientific research figured out the approximate distance of each feature of the nebula. Then he converted it into a magic eye. GENIUS. What’s also cool is that he made the image in two different ways. The first (top image) is for those people that like doing magic eye by looking past the picture. The bottom one is for people who prefer to cross their eyes.
Note: Magic eye’s work best when they don’t require significant eye manipulation. This one has the two images really far apart. I found that my eyes got a bit sore after looking for a little while.
Jesse’s Fat Cat.
Jesse tells us about his Cat adventures.
I thought our cat was getting fat, or at least eating too much (aka we have to clean the litterbox too often). i suggested we cut back on her food. she would be “healthier”, OR at least she’ll poop less. Alicia thought this was mean and also incorrect (she thought we fed her the right amount), so we looked up what a cat her size should eat. The general consensus for an “inactive adult female” of her approx. weight was 1.7-3.0 oz./day. We have been giving her 1/2 cup per day. So i supposed this was more than the recommended amount, and Alicia disagreed. Naturally, it had to be put to the test of science, and clearly, a mere scale would be too easy (OR we don’t have one…. you decide) AND CLEARLY lego’s, seran wrap, string, and pocket change were involved.
i was wrong. sue me.
Character
My least favorite engineering character is unquestionably lower case zeta.
In vibrations, this little guy is the damping ratio. Why don’t I like this character? I guess there are two reasons. Firstly, it’s really tough to draw. Try it. At least for me, it took a bit of practice before it stopped looking like a random squiggle and started looking like its true Greekish form. Secondly, it’s not as widely recognized as, say, the ampersand. That means, that if you screw up in your artistic attempt to draw the little guy then no one will have any idea what you’ve written down.