09-12-12 – She Blinded Me With Science!

Welcome in JVSPhotos! I’d thought I’d mentioned about updating the rules page, but I guess I’m mistaken. Lots of nice, friendly people here, and now that you know, you can post the images larger next time!

Thanks for the welcome!

Maybe you did post the update somewhere, but I just clicked on the rules link that comes with the first post of each competition and did what it said. It turns out I actually have posted larger every other time, this is just my first in a while so I re-checked the rules and saw 640. Oh well.

People sure seemed to like the more interpretive photos than the photos from my actual nuclear physics lab, but it turns out science really is pretty boring.

People sure seemed to like the more interpretive photos than the photos from my actual nuclear physics lab, but it turns out science really is pretty boring.

We’re always mentioning how we can never figure out the will of the voters. Knowing that a nuc. phys. can’t either is…well, it just means there’s no hope at all. 😛

My neighbor spoke with me yesterday around six saying some things about the explosion I took a photo of on Wednesday (I told her it was a one time science experiment and I was sorry if she was startled), people at my house slamming the back door and causing things to rattle in her house because we share a wall (I apologized and said I’d let them know to be more gentle), and she also complained about the weeds in my yard and I told her it was my goal to clear them up this weekend (it was – I’m not a morning person and pulling weeds in the Phoenix summer heat blows) and that was about it.

Then around nine thirty my girlfriend, my buddy and I were laughing in the back yard and having a few beers and things were already winding down by ten. At ten thirty there was a knock at the door and it was a cop. I am super pissed, and I rarely get angry at all – I couldn’t get to sleep until two in the morning because I was so agitated. Is it just me or is it not that hard to poke your head out the door and ask someone to keep it down if you need it to be quieter? I didn’t even feel that we were being that loud last night and was really quite shocked when the police showed up.

*grumble* *grumble* She turned what would have been a satisfying bit of yard work into a chore that I *had* to do because I might get in trouble if someone else didn’t approve of the state of my area.

Anyway, just needed to vent a bit. Hope you all are having a better weekend!

Conga rats Ravnostic

CISS – It’s a cauliflower. Like I said earlier, I’d done a photoshop years ago, so when my wife pointed them out earlier this year, I shot about 4 or 5. Yesterday when I went into the market office for something, I saw a sign with about 4 different types of cauliflower on it, and this was one of them. The only part i find truly freaky is the geometry of it. I spent some time in a history of math class (it was easier and made more sense than a real math class) and we talked about (among other things) Fibonacci’s Sequence, so a lot of really cool stuff in nature falls into this pattern. Final note, while in Italy last summer, I found Fibonacci’s grave in Pisa. As yet I have met no one IRL who has found that even remotely cool.