Winter Exercise
The problem: It’s cold and wet outside, and my desire go to cycling has consequentially disappeared.
The solution: Dance to progressive rock (such as this, or this, or this). It’s fun, fast, and exhausting. Also, figuring out how to dance to “experimental” music can be a challenge in itself.
Vandalism
Graffiti doesn’t seem to be a very big problem in Seattle, so I was more than a little surprised the first time I spotted this van (pictured above) parked on a quiet residential street on Beacon Hill. At second glance, it became clear the graffiti artist behind this striking sight was also the van’s owner. [...]
Snowflake Physics
In the course of my efforts to design an original theme for this blog, I went searching for snowflake photos; what I found was quite beyond what I had been looking for. Ken Libbrecht of Caltech has an amazing website devoted to the the physics of snowflakes and ice crystal formation. His lab does a [...]
