one of the best inventions ever

you know the thing that allows you to pull out the kitchen sink faucet and its got the little hose that lets it extend. I'm not even sure what its called but its a miracle for dishwashing. love it!

before I sell back my textbook...

"He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him." -D. H. Lawrence, "The Horse Dealers Daughter"

"'The tragedy is not how one dies ,' he thought. 'It is how one lived.'" - Salman Rushdie, "Chekov and Zulu"

microvoids are cool

I realized that I don't express my gratefulness often enough. I am really good at complaining, but I've known that for a while now. So, here it is, some gratitude! And it even concerns the things I am filling my poor, tired brain with...
These images are taken on a fancy microscope (SEM) and I LOVE them. I didn't take them, but I think they are beautiful. They are both fracture surfaces of a 1018 steel tensile test. This is a cup and cone fracture characterized by all the microvoid coalescence (dimples). Each one of those is a little tiny particle nucleating, creating localized strain that leads to necking and fracture. Basically the material tears away in little sections from these voids. crazy huh?

can I . . .

just go to sleep, wake up, and have everything sorted out?

quotes from Amazing Grace (the movie)

''It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself." - Francis Bacon
"I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior." -John Newton
"God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms." -John Newton