Some talk on Twitter yesterday by @samharrelson and @dtonhaeuser reminded me to go dig up this picture. I don't remember posting it to anywhere more permanent than Twitter.
This is from a few summers ago, I randomly ran into Justine in NYC at the apple store. She was there with her sisters.
I love the idea of examining this idea of a “philosophy of cosmology”…
Form the original article:
What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology by The Atlantic: “This question of accounting for what we call the “big bang state” — the search for a physical explanation of it — is probably the most important question within the philosophy of cosmology, and there are a couple different lines of thought about it.”
As a closet philosopher, I love this stuff.
My favorite quote from the article:
Well gee, you're telling me the universe began in some extremely unlikely or improbable state" and you wonder is there any explanation for that. Is there any principle that you can use to account for the big bang state?
Exactly. Something just doesn't feel right about the current "as simple as that" explanation that has at least made it out to the lay person.
Though as soon as I open my mouth about it, I'm instantly over my head. Thus my "closet" status.
Regardless, this is a fun read. And he disses on Hawking, which is pretty ballsy.
I can't even describe this. Just watch the awesomeness.
Stop motion is so awesome.
By the way, the characters in this video were made with "Perler Beads". It's a tedious job to put these together for anyone with hands larger than a 6 year-old's.
As a father with kids who love making things with these beads, all I can say to these guys is, "respect". Must have been a bitch making all these props -- unless they've got a sweatshop of 4 year olds with tiny hands putting these together.
This video makes me want to go get my kids' plastic iron beads and make my own.
This is the morning after the big Nor'easter that came through the northeast last night.
Massive damage everywhere.
A few years ago we had a similar issue which I wrote about here
While we had some major damage outside to our cars and property, were lucky in some ways. People all around us lost power, which we managed to avoid.
I just wanted to make a quick post to say, "Thanks!" to the awesome people who take the stuff that I put here and turn it into remarkable conversations.
This week's post, Affiliate Marketing, Get Paid for Nothing, spurred some fantastic discussion, provided many points of view, and speaking for myself, taught me a few things.
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...Last night in New England we got a massive ice storm. According to reports there are hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power this morning.
We've been without power for six hours now. I drove around in it this morning and there is no power for miles around. We could be in for a long outage here.
Thankfully, I got us set
...I take a break from battling it out with my fellow affiliate marketers over bullies and boogeymen to bring you a few random thoughts that have been kicking around in my head for the past few weeks.
First up, iTunes movie rentals.
Brilliant idea. Worst possible execution. ever.
I rented 300 the day that the service launched. I had 30 days
...Facing the fact that substantial affiliate marketing related content doesn't come to me with any regularity, I'm going to try mixing it up a bit and write about some additional topics.
Ironically, aside from some really hot affiliate marketing topics (cough LMI), my most popular posts seem to be related to non-affiliate marketing topics.
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