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Complementarity and ‘America the Beautiful’

eljefe — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:06:18 +0000

Mouseover text: Colorado is working to develop coherent amber waves, which would allow them to finally destroy Kansas and Nebraska with a devastating but majestic grain laser.

It’s a physics joke. If you don’t get it, look up wave-particle duality and the Uncertainty Principle, which only exists as a Wikipedia entry when you are looking at it.

Quiz on Monday.

Anthropomorphic names are OK; consciousness, not so much

eljefe — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:48:09 +0000

Mouseover text: Funding was quickly restored to the NHC and the APA was taken back off hurricane forecast duty.

It’s an Educational Psychology joke (if such things really exist).

Oh, snap!

eljefe — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:11:02 +0000

The mouseover text says: “And they both react poorly to showers.”

The next Congressional sex scandal?

eljefe — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:16:49 +0000

After all, why just send boring cellphone pix?

As t –> ∞, teaching physics –> teaching math

eljefe — Fri, 06 May 2011 09:38:23 +0000

But only as a first approximation …

Gotta keep up with the lingo, man

eljefe — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:38:03 +0000

In case you can’t see the mouseover text, it says, “2017 called, but I couldn’t understand what they were saying over all the screams.”

Another classic from xkcd.com

When you wish upon a (non-main sequence) star …

eljefe — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:30:27 +0000

Don’t you just hate it when the star you wish on explodes?