Long Live The Squirrels

Today I witnessed a newsworthy event in a state of complete and utter amusement as I crossed the four way stop at E. Jefferson and Thompson: A woman driving a Honda Civic Hybrid made it through the intersection and then after making a complete stop for a SQUIRREL, she honked at it, waited until it was clear of the danger of her tires, and then continued on her merry way. I started laughing out loud, but was quickly silenced by quite a few not-so-nice glares...it might not have helped that I had my iPod in...who knows. Judger McJudgersons.

In other news..."Your Cosmic Context: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology" by Sirs Todd Duncan and Craig Tyler is one of the most entertaining textbooks I have encountered in quite some time. This might be due to the fact that it was really late last night, the construction was blaring at its usual noise level, and I was kind of delirious, but there are so many little tidbits stuck in parentheses throughout that are straight up hilarious. They are things I think in my head and laugh to myself about, but are never actually written. It was great! Naturally, I was laughing out loud. RM was questioning my sanity, buuut it's alright. When is someone not questioning my sanity these days?

A couple prime examples for your enjoyment:

"If you had all-encompassing power over the world, and you wanted to quadruple the gravity force felt by the rest of us lowly earthlings, just to amuse yourself, how would you do it?"

"The idea of being bound is simple. It means that, without acquiring some additional energy, you can't escape. Without additional energy provided by a large rocket engine, your body is bound to Earth. (Of course, your mind can go higher by studying cosmology.)"