GinohnNews! 2005 01 19

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19 JANUARY 2005

Gravity, Light, and Other Attractions

Haiku Movie Reviews - Ocean's 12

J: We dropped Booda at the animal hospital again today, to check up on his stitches, lymph nodes, and lungs. According to the vet Booda's doing really well; he's healing nicely from the surgery, his lymphs aren't swollen and his lung x-rays came out clean. Even so, Booda's recovering verrry slowly. He's still obviously in pain, his head hangs and he often has a big string of drool hanging out of the right side of his mouth, but at least he's still eating.

Last Thursday three students—Peter, Peter, and Robert—came down from New Jersey to meet Ginohn, perform in a 2005 World Celebration of Physics standup comedy open mike at the New Deal Cafe, and then meet the Looneys for a night of gaming. Peter and Rob put on a good performance at the New Deal, singing parodies of Breakfast at Tiffany's and For the Longest Time, which I called For the Longest Twine because it traced the history of physics from Galileo through Newton to Einstein, all the way to Quantum and finally Superstring theories. They got a lot of applause. The rest of the show was bizarre, nerdy, and very entertaining.

The next day I gave the three a short improvised tour of Goddard Space Flight Center, and then they took off back to New Jersey. Thanks for visiting, guys!

Over the weekend I put up some nice track lighting in our living room, and two wall-mounted bedside lamps in our bedroom. Let there be more light! I also did some other household projects and chores, the worst, most tedious of which was opening boxes from our last move and throwing junk out or finding places to put stuff. Awful, dusty, psychologically difficult work, and we're still not done yet. Give me more lights to put up, or something to construct, please.

This Thursday I'm taking off from work to go downtown and not see the inauguration with Stacy and Dorian. Hope we don't get too cold.

Looky, here are a bunch of pictures from DnA's New Years Party! Good times. Good times. (Ran out of space on the server though, so some of these might not be linked yet.)