because science is power!

[mercat]

Hey, so you know Jason Segel's Muppets movie he's been working on? (astrid087, you're going to want to see this) Jack Black, Paul Rudd, and Lady Gaga may be involved. I WILL BE THERE IN THREE SECONDS PLEASETHANKYOU

Science cheerleaders!

A good comic with a certain movie poster in the background.

Dick van Dyke saved by porpoises, although I have no idea of the date of said incident and I find that... strange.

New Winnie the Pooh movie next year! (Nothing says classic Winnie the Pooh like pop music.) Well I know what I'm doing next summer. Also, Craig Ferguson and John Cleese are in it! OHMYGOD.


Check out this crazy owl:

I find this comic both hilarious and depressing. And fascinating.

OH HEY INDY EXHIBITION. Here's an article on the exhibition. Official website. Post with the tour poster. Unsurprisingly, it's just a conceptual design copy of the classic Temple of Doom poster, however, I am really loving the detail of the walls-covered-in-hieroglyphics. (It reminds me of that damn Egyptian cat mystery puzzle I still haven't finished after... uh... ten years.) (can you tell I'm sick of ripoffs of the ToD poster? I'd honestly love to see the Indy franchise get some other colors besides BROWN TONES. Same problem as steampunk, goddamn. THE JUNGLE EXISTS YOU KNOW. IT'S VERY GREEN. I DO BELIEVE INDY HAS VISITED JUNGLES IN AT LEAST THREE OF THE MOVIES AND IN LC THERE'S STILL A CHASE THROUGH THE GERMAN FOREST-SIDE. [IDK, WHAT IS THE "COUNTRYSIDE" EQUIVALENT OF "FOREST"?]) CAPSRAGE IN CASE YOU COULDN'T TELL I'M A LITTLE BIT OBSESSED. (Also-also, the proportions on that poster are a little...off... those legs/hips look cartoonishly unrealistic. Or the pose does. Or something.)


ANYWAY who wants to road trip to Montreal?!



Prompts time! Initials of my crushes: don't really have any at the moment. But that is also a completely different discussion.

I do not wear glasses. But when my eyes are old enough to need them, I will rock some fashionable ones, that's for sure. Or maybe get LASIK, since I've heard they don't have to cut your cornea anymore. But, sadly, I will probably never be able to wear contacts. My eyes are just too sensitive for me to be putting things in them. I really wanted to get some all-black or all-white or cat/snake-eye contacts for my halloween costume this year, but instead I ended up drawing pupils on my eyelids, which worked okay, but I'm not totally satisfied with how my makeup ended up. It bled A LOT.

Scientists used high-speed video to determine how cats actually drink. I had always been taught (read?) that cats curled their tongues under, which someone had discovered way-back-when with a hi-speed camera. So apparently that was "not quite", though. Rather than curl their tongues under to scoop, they curl them under to "pull" a column of fluid towards their own mouth, which they then catch and swallow.

Science is fascinating!

Comments

[mister-sable.livejournal.com]

THEY CUT YOUR CORNEA?!! Holy crap!! Glasses don't seem so bad anymore. I've been wearing them for 35 years anyway. :S

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they used to have to cut a little flap up, I'm assuming so they had a "flat" surface to work on? As in, not having to deal with focusing/refraction. For the most part it apparently wasn't a problem, they didn't even have to "seal" it back up, but I don't think your cornea can really ever heal so every once in a rare while someone's little flap would pop up and they'd have to come back in and get it pushed down or something.

ANYWAY IT SOUNDED HORRIFYING WHEN I LEARNED ABOUT IT. But I read something a few months ago that the cutting is no longer necessary, which I'm assuming means they programmed the laser to deal with the curvature, since it was already programmed to deal with the fact that your eye isn't completely motionless anyhow.

[mister-sable.livejournal.com]

Just reading about a flap popping up is making me gag. It's good they've come closer to perfecting it and that it's no longer two grand per eye. It's like $500 or so now, isn't it? aaaugh! It's still terrifying!

[mercat.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, I'm lucky in that I have pretty good vision (although my eyes have started having trouble focusing on lights at night). They used to be SUPER sensitive though... To the point where I couldn't even talk about eyes without them starting to well up.

[dancecat89.livejournal.com]

Dude. I am so in for that road trip. We went last summer - it's a cool museum and a pretty fascinating city.
Also, though speaking French is fairly unnecessary since most everyone knows English, it was nice to have enough to get around.

[mercat.livejournal.com]

Yessssss we should do this. We went there with girl scouts and I remember not having to really speak french, I tried like once or twice and it just ended badly, lol. JE NE PARLE IDEK THE WORD FOR FRENCH. All I can come up with is "franglais" damn you dad and your butchered french puns! C'est la gruyere.