This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a teeny weeny knitted dalek.
if this doesn’t show the two most evil forces in the universe, I don’t know what does
Which one would you bet on in a cagematch? (The full story behind this photo is at Craft Is The New Black: EX-SQQQUEEEEE-MINATE.)
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
NB: the whimsy threads are a stoush-free zone.
That unimpeachable source, the UK Daily Mail, has confirmed what we have all long-suspected — right-wingers have a brain deformity!
Clearly, the best available treatment for them is a lobotomy
Boing-Boing has a neat time-lapse video of the New York blizzard.
FailChef: why you shouldn’t deep fry Gnocchi.
Dr Andrew Prentice is an awesome professor of mathematics and astrophysics, having made not one but several predictions which have been tested by NASA and found to be eithr correct or not far off and leading to other discoveries. By day he is a much loved lecturer in Mathematics at Monash University who has his own Facebook fan page due to the Prentice-isms peppering his lectures. Here’s a sample:
“This bottom row is like Cinderella; normally she’s down the bottom in the cupboard with a broomstick, but now she’s out and giving her two sisters a good BASHING!” (trademark single word shout.)
- About matrix row operations:
“This row is a bit vulnerable, he knows he’s above his station. He’s in the lounge room when he should be in the outhouse. We really should make him sit in the corner or something. He’s been a naughty row.”
“It can be elongated, a bit like a couple of disturbed melons”
“It’s as if all the variables are at kinder and it’s x’s turn for show and tell, so the other variables have to sit back and be quiet while x tells them all about his Christmas holidays, or maybe what he got for his birthday…”
“If you bring the 1 inside the brackets, it’ll prowl around looking for x’s”
Link here.
Two views of Japan:
The Orbweavers – Japanese Mountains
GB3 – Nectarine
Helen @ 3: Mrs Andyc has had some exceedingly nice fried gnocchi at a Certain Establishment in Westralia, but they definitely weren’t the store-bought kind!
Helen @ 5, thank you – such fun on a beautiful Melbourne day (but brace for tomorrow…).
When one William Shatner just isn’t enough.
Oh thank you, terangeree. It’s ages since I’ve seen that brilliant bit of high camp tosh.