From concentrate and not from concentrate at the same time, this orange juice is part of Schrödinger’s complete breakfast. Or more accurately, the moment just prior to Schrödinger’s complete breakfast.
I’m beginning to realize that Florida is a quantum state.
To this day, one of the most-visited articles on this blog is one from 2008, titled Countries That Don’t Use the Metric System, which points out that there are only three: Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States.
Since it’s from the era when George W. Bush was president, I ended the article with this smart-ass quip: “I say we let them get some decent governments first, then worry about getting them on the metric system.” I believe it’s that line that got the article all that attention, and all the back-and-forth fighting in the comments section.
If you like partaking in debates about the metric system, you might find this passage from the novel Wild Thing by Josh Bazell interesting:
I should pick up this book!
Ouch.
Earlier today, during a debate on legislating abortion, Idaho representative Vito Barbieri asked if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam.
Here’s the relevant excerpt from the Associated Press’ story:
The question Monday from Republican state Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine.
Dr. Julie Madsen was testifying in opposition to the bill when Barbieri asked the question. Madsen replied that would be impossible because swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina.
“Fascinating. That makes sense,” Barbieri said, amid the crowd’s laughter.
These guys have such a terrible track record with women that they should be given standard-issue talking points and refer anything more complex tham “boys have wee-wees and girls have cha-chas” to designated spokespeople. It would save them a lot of embarrassment.
There’s more at Think Progress, and in the meantime, here’s a quick recap of the digestive system, in case you’re a bit rusty or Republican.
Click the graph to see it at full size.
…but then again, I am not most people. Where the Future Missus and I are on this graph is left as an exercise for the reader.
Graph found at dadaviz.
This is amazing: it’s German techno DJ Flula Borg‘s cover of LL Cool J’s 1990 hit, Mama Said Knock You Out, with Mama sayin’, and Papa doing the baseline on the squeezebox. Hang out with me and you too can have moments like this:
This is pure Teutonic weirdness at its finest.
Click the photo to see it at full size.
T minus 12 days…