Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

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12:54p	My neighborhood is feeling kind of surreal lately.  Yesterday, I walked out of the office to see a superhero staring at me through my second-story window.  The neighbor's kid had dressed up in a mask and cape and was standing on their roof, striking heroic poses, cape blowing fantastically in the wind.  Today, I'm being haunted.  For the last hour, I've been just barely hearing what I would have sworn were bagpipes, so faint that I thought I was just imagining tones in the background noise of the apartment, fading in and out.  It was making me nuts, I kept trying to figure out where the heck it was coming from or if I was just getting a ringing in my ears.  But I finally spotted him out my kitchen window, on a straight shot past the Schwab building, on the other side of El Camino - a guy in a green kilt playing the bagpipes all by himself out on the corner.  The guy's like 1000 feet away, across a busy intersection and mostly behind a six-story building, but I'm still getting the bagpipe music. (Comment on this)
6:18p	Random cool fact:  Tennis shoes occasionally fall off ships in the ocean.  Wait, that's not the cool part, that's just litter.  The cool part is that when they eventually wash up on beaches around the world, certain beaches only get left shoes and other beaches only get right shoes.  Why is that? Take off your shoes and flip them over (shoes float with the soles toward the sky).  Notice that the curve along the inner parts of the soles are not identical, they are mirror-images of each other.  When wind and waves push against the shoes, they catch along the curves differently, pushing left and right shoes in slightly different directions.  Over the vast expanse of the oceans, this adds up to left shoe beaches and right shoe beaches! (2 Comments | Comment on this)

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