…waiting…
Well, here it goes again… I just found another good place, I should hear back tomorrow by noon about it. Once again, there’s competition for it, but I may be able to achieve something with negotiation on it.
*sigh* Ah, the joys of apartment-hunting…
For those of you who (like me) have no television, or otherwise haven’t seen this – a new Honda ad that’s somewhere between beautiful and frightening.
No, that’s not CG. Yes, it took a lot of takes to get that right.
This has been your work avoidance for the night.
Wow…
The new job is starting to feel real. I got asked yesterday “What username and machine name would you like?” (Yes, that makes things more real. The answers were zunger and hasufel, respectively. And anyone who can recognize the latter picks up some geek points.)
Dammit…
I just went and saw the perfect apartment. It’s got absolutely every feature I wanted, it’s pleasant, in the right location, the price is right. And I’m currently the third applicant in line for it.
Bugger.
Your random physics thought for the day
(From a problem set my students just handed in…)
The amount of energy it takes to bring water from room temperature to a boil is enough to launch it 34km straight up. The amount of energy it would take to boil it down all the way – until it all evaporated – would launch it 270km.
Compare this to a typical altitude for a 747, about 11km, or for a space shuttle, about 150km.
Damn. Water has a very high heat capacity.
And the idea of launching a liter of water 34km into the air is pretty cool.
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