Peribothron

From cedarseed:


Ben & Jerry created "Yes Pecan!" ice cream flavor to honor Obama. They then asked people to fill in the blank to the following statement: For George W. we created "_________."

Here are some of their favorite responses:

1. Grape Depression

2. Abu Grape

3. Cluster Fudge

4. Nut'n Accomplished

5. Iraqi Road

6. Chock 'n Awe

7. WireTapioca

8. Impeach Cobbler

9. Guantanamallow

10. imPeachmint

11. Good Riddance You Lousy Motherfucker Swirl

12. Heck of a job, Brownie

13. Neocon Politan

14. RockyRoad to Fascism

15. The Reese's-cession

16. Cookie D'oh

17. The Housing Crunch

18. Nougalar Proliferation

19. Death by Chocolate

20. Death by Torture

21. Credit Crunch

22. Country Pumpkin

23. Chunky Monkey in Chief

24. George Bush Doesn't Care about Dark Chocolate

25. WM Delicious

26. Chocolate Chimp

27. Bloody Sundae

28. Caramel Preemptive Stripe

29. I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of thousands . . . with nuts

This was a good week/weekend. On Thursday, I bought a couch at IKEA, and managed to load it and get it home in the van. Sometimes I really love having a minivan. We needed a new couch, because our old ones were nasty. We moved everything to the den before christmas, so that the floors could be waxed, ad M. decided we weren't moving them back. One of them, a leather one that we both really love and that we brought from CA, is being thrown out 'cause the dog had an accident on one of the cushions. Now we just have to train the dogs to stay off the new one. It was kind of nice shopping for new furniture though, and I look forward to having a real budget to play with as we slowly molt our college furniture away.
We went to Austin Homebrew Supply on Friday afternoon, using my gift certificate to get cheesemaking supplies, and to Costco for milk. Ira doesn't seem to like his car seat right now, and I can hardly blame him after all those long trips. for some reason we were both really exhausted and ended up going to sleep around 10.30, so I set the alarm for 6.30 on saturday. I woke up and got some good work done before the sprogger woke up, getting my revision finished and submitted to ApJ. Later, we started the cheesemaking. We made mozzarella first, which is really easy, and turned out well. I also wanted to do cheddar, but we needed a bigger pot, so I checked a couple of places looking for a good deal on a large stockpot. As an aside- don't ever go to the chinese market on the weekend before Chinese New Year. Gong hay fat choy indeed. The pot I got ended up being too big to fit in the sink, so we used the bath to bring it up to temperature. I got in the tub with Ira, and he helped by vigorously splashing the warm water around the tub. The cheddar is now all pressed and is drying out- later I have to wax it, but it has to age for a few months before we can eat it- hopefully it'll be good. We stayed up late listening to Says You, and watching some TV on the couch- quite nice.
Today I did more cores, played a lot with Ira, and ordered DSL. I figured out that with the deals att is having, we can switch from cable to dsl and save about 65 dollars a month for the first 3 months, and 30 after that. Anyway, all in all a home-productive weekend, if not terribly work-productive, but that's what tomorrow is for, right?

Questions from bobthemole


1. How did you realize that physics was the IT subject for you?

In High School, Physics was the hardest subject, according to everyone I talked to. But I took to it, and it just made sense. I love being able to describe the world through equations, and reduce a series of events down to a simple equation. To be fair, part of it was ego though, since I knew I could do something that everyone thought was hard. That part has kind of gone away by now (PhD programs will do that), but I still really enjoy the math, and also I love to teach physics to people now as well.

2. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
That's a tough one, but I'd have to go for Amy's Zilker Mint Chip. Most of amy's flavors are great, though I don't like Belgian Chocolate, or the beer ones.

3. The TARDIS shows up and the Doctor offers you "Just one trip. Really. Just one." Where and when would you choose to go?
Well, a trick answer would be, "To the future, where I can pick up an encyclopedia and figure out how history unfolds." But barring that, I think I would like to see how the first globally recognized Human-Extraterrestrial meetings go, to see if we can play well with others.

4. What is one food you just can't eat, even though other people seem to like it?
Belgian Chocolate. Too sweet and not enough chocolate. Also, capers. I can't stand them and they remind me of having to clean out the sink.


5. What's the story behind your username?
I heard it from an astronomer at a conference- from 'peri'- close, and 'bothros'- pit, it is an orbit's point of closest approach to a back hole. I thought it sounded cool, so I used it. It's also an anagram of "Brother Pino". It must not be too widely used, because if you google it, the first six links are my pages. My mom says it sounds like a Hobbit from LoTR.


I can give you questions if you want.

Ira seems endlessly fascinated by the mobile above his crib. He cries when it stops, and looks at it in wonder while it spins. So cool.

I'll send the questions if you ask, but you then have to do the meme.

1. mergle
2. superlib
3. Ira
4. mintyq
5. cozmolution
6. danalwyn
7. freeradical42
8. mystavash
9. mintyq
10. mintyq, hippogryph
11. Don't really know anyone like that.
12. mintyq
13. cedarseed
14. Colin.
15. Meh.
16. Biden (sorry, these 5 seemed to good to pass up)
17. McCain
18. Palin
19. Obama
20. Everyone
21. bobthemole
22. yami_mcmoots
23. mintyq- was there a doubt?
24. mintyq
25. Charles Carmichael
26. Bah?
27. Ira - he doesn't know any better yet.
28. Dennis Kucinich
29. Elizabeth Kucinich
30. Most of these aren't serious at all.