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5 good things
Jul. 5th, 2012 12:07 am1. Happy Fourth of July! ...Even if you do not celebrate the commemoration of American Independence from Britain, it's still the Fourth of July (except in those parts of the world where it's not). And in any case, I want the day to be happy for you. Or you to be happy for the day.
( Here, have a compicatedly-patriotic poem read my good friend and mentor for the last ... 25 years? )
2. On American Father's Day, I posted a picture of my dad as a young man (around 40 -- younger than I am now o_O). On American Independence Day, here's a picture of him toward the end of his life, posing with two of his fellow Coast Guard veterans:
( He's the one on the far left, with the Santa / Father Christmas Beard )
3. They found the Higgs boson (kinda, sorta... maybe?) Father would have been pleased. He was a great fan of bosons.
4. Good in the "Weird and wonderful way Real Life decides to act like a fantasy or sci-fi novel": This morning, I couldn't find my glasses. That's not unusual, or weird or wonderful; I often don't start for bed until I'm already so tired I'm half-way to REM sleep, so I could put my glasses down anywhere between my computer room and bedroom and have no conscious memory of where'd I put them, upon waking again.
The weird and wonderful thing is where I finally discovered they were: they were in the precise point I habitually put them down, on top of my bedside table -- same orientation, position, distance from all four edges of the table, Except they were on the floor under the table.
It's as if there was a shift in the particles, either in my glasses themselves, the table itself (or both) and my glasses did a little tiny quantum through "solid" matter, landing two feet straight down. Or maybe they jumped to a parallel universe, and miscalculated the jump back. Or Douglas Adams was right about the universe disappearing and reappearing the moment its secret is discovered, and we're in a totally new universe, with just one or two things different then they were before... (this is precisely the kind of thing that makes fantasy and sci-fi feel more realistic to me than so-called realism of mainstream fiction... doesn't happen often. But often enough)
5. Cheez-It crackers now come with a "Scrabble" design. I'm geeky enough that I bought some today (I was thinking of getting cheese crackers anyway). And no, the serving size is not seven crackers ... I'm geeky enough to have checked for, too.
( Here, have a compicatedly-patriotic poem read my good friend and mentor for the last ... 25 years? )
2. On American Father's Day, I posted a picture of my dad as a young man (around 40 -- younger than I am now o_O). On American Independence Day, here's a picture of him toward the end of his life, posing with two of his fellow Coast Guard veterans:
( He's the one on the far left, with the Santa / Father Christmas Beard )
3. They found the Higgs boson (kinda, sorta... maybe?) Father would have been pleased. He was a great fan of bosons.
4. Good in the "Weird and wonderful way Real Life decides to act like a fantasy or sci-fi novel": This morning, I couldn't find my glasses. That's not unusual, or weird or wonderful; I often don't start for bed until I'm already so tired I'm half-way to REM sleep, so I could put my glasses down anywhere between my computer room and bedroom and have no conscious memory of where'd I put them, upon waking again.
The weird and wonderful thing is where I finally discovered they were: they were in the precise point I habitually put them down, on top of my bedside table -- same orientation, position, distance from all four edges of the table, Except they were on the floor under the table.
It's as if there was a shift in the particles, either in my glasses themselves, the table itself (or both) and my glasses did a little tiny quantum through "solid" matter, landing two feet straight down. Or maybe they jumped to a parallel universe, and miscalculated the jump back. Or Douglas Adams was right about the universe disappearing and reappearing the moment its secret is discovered, and we're in a totally new universe, with just one or two things different then they were before... (this is precisely the kind of thing that makes fantasy and sci-fi feel more realistic to me than so-called realism of mainstream fiction... doesn't happen often. But often enough)
5. Cheez-It crackers now come with a "Scrabble" design. I'm geeky enough that I bought some today (I was thinking of getting cheese crackers anyway). And no, the serving size is not seven crackers ... I'm geeky enough to have checked for, too.
