Celestial Time Travel

Last night while going to bed, my thoughts went back to a previous thought about time travel that is related to my post October Thoughts about Closeness.

When you look through a telescope at celestial objects, you are in a sense, time traveling. the image you see has a time delay due to the speed of light. In other words, when you look at the the moon, you are seeing a moon that existed 2.6 seconds ago. Looking at Alpha Centauri, is a time delay of 4.2 years. So as a person goes from one object in the sky to another one, they are essentially time traveling through thousands of years. So the question is, in what time is the space between the objects? How far away is the space? In the absence of mass, does time exist?

You Know You Are A Bad Typist When...

after typing in a word that is so mis-spelled, spell check's suggestion is "no suggestion".
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you right click on the mis-spelled word and it does not even show you a spell check menu.
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Spring Is Coming

Spring is coming ... at least spring semester at UVA! It looks like Esh will be returning this spring. After he took a significant break from classes this fall, he was still able to get a 2.4 GPA. This could certainly be better but considering that more than a third of the classes were skipped and each class had several grades of zero, this shows that he really pulled at the end of the semester. His graduate math (Math 521) even came in with an okay overall grade with a B on the final exam.

Recipes

I just discovered that our grocery store has recipes on its web site! Yum.

http://www.ukrops.com/email_2008/meal_ideas.asp

Wonderful Friends

We have wonderful friends. One of them decide a few months ago to begin running for various charities. She is around our age, so her kids are all grown (in fact, she has several grandkids). About a year ago she began to do marathons and at the same time, raise money for charities. We donated to her most recent run for St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis. She and her daughter finished the entire 13.1 miles (we got a beautiful postcard)! Bravo, A!!!!!!! Can't wait to see where the next postcard is from!

Today's Meal

We pretty much share equally the making and cleaning up for all of our meals in this house, with whomever is in attendance at any meal. So what are we having today? Yummy pot roast.

Here the pot roast is prior to going in the crock-pot. Beef, onions, carrots, peas, and canned tomatoes.







And here it is in the crock-pot where it will sit for several hours on low heat. We will eat it with crusty bread in big bowls. So easy!

Writing Poetry

Gnomie is getting ready to write a poem in our downstairs half-bath!

Dark Knight

Last night we watched The Dark Knight. Very powerful and well done movie. During it, the fact that one of Gotham's wealthiest men is being a vigilante made me think. Gotham City is definitely an analogy to any American city. Wealthiest men being vigilantes.....hmmm.

What they must REALLY be saying is Bill Gates is a masked vigilante! See the comparison below:

Even the names are similar; Bruce Wayne (ten letters) and Bill Gates (9 letters) - both first names begin with "Bs"! Too close to be a coincident! They both have technology companies and they part their hair on the same side of their head! So now that we have figured out Bill Gates secret identity will our lives be at risk??? Oh no! And where does Bill Gates keep the Batmobile?

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Gravity Well adds: I don't know about Bat Mobile but there is Windows Mobile

Gnomie is on the move again!! This time he is by Einstein's equation for General Relativity painted on our front hall wall. Gnomie warps space-time!

Never Dies

Right now on the Today Show it was mentioned that anything placed on cyberspace never dies. This is true. Once something is out in cyberspace it is always there. Many people do not fully embrace this and realize this is true just like nothing is ever actually private out on cyberspace. Another thing is that people do not realize that if you use a blog engine like blogger or inkspot or any of them, they own your entries and they keep records for forever. This does not bother everyone but people need to make the choices that are right for them. They will not be able to change the cyber-world so they need to make wise choices.

Final Exams

Final exams are underway at UVA and the dorms have quiet hours in order to facilitate studying by all. Bud has 5 exams, one of which is a take-home. We both wish him the best of luck! And grades with results high enough to return to UVA in the spring!

Angels and Demons

All three of us have enjoyed Dan Brown's books. Are they award winning pieces of literature? heck no; but they are fun and entertaining and very light on the brain. Da Vinci Code was all of our least favorite book although it got so much media attention. High on all of our favorites list (of Dan Brown's books only) is Angels and Demons; and we are happy to hear there will be another Tom Hanks movies released this spring!

Better Than Last Year!

Gung-Ho

I went gung-ho today. I got an XBox 360 Elite and a whole crap load of games (this description fits!). The new Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider- Underworld (fashioned after me as I look exactly like Lara Croft - hahahaha), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Star Wars The Force Unleashed, and ........... about 6 more that I can not even remember but were recommended by the store personnel (yes, I fell prey to their tactics). It should keep us busy in this house over winter break that's for sure! I will be sure to write reviews and keep everyone posted on our experiences.

Sheets and Towels

Hallelujah! Bud's sheets and towels will come home and get washed over winter break. Yes, that's correct. They have not been washed since August! The question now is will we have enough water and soap to do the job?