multi-purpose SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY CHART (12x16”): now for sale on Etsy!
The diagram itself is based on a (ridiculous) pendulum chart, used by (ridiculous) clairvoyants to discern the future… oooOOOoo. Feel free to make up your own rules.
As Anna said, it’s 80s night here at the Permenter-Rascouët residence. Anna won’t stop dancing, and I won’t stop trying to bring the playlist around to Duran Duran. Current status: Johnny Hates Jazz.
Last night, Anna sang an old song about Bastille Day, part of which involved giving Marie Antoinette a broken nose, who totally deserved it. Also included were some words about bombing anyone who tries to mess with France. In any case: I’m at work right now, but I plan on Storming the Bastille as soon as I get home.
Hot on the heels of the FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE series!!
and the LARGE HADRON COLLIDER COLLISION poster!!
comes a NEW LHC PRINT from the design desk of Jason Permenter*
FOR THE SCIENTIST IN YOUR FAMILY! HURRY! WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a $20 billion, multi-national, gigantic particle accelerator spanning the French/Switzerland border. It’s used by physicists to study the smallest known particles, all in an attempt to understand the nature of the Universe. Thought I might try and give it a nice-looking treatment since it’s an amazing piece of scientific technology. The text in the upper corner includes a list of facts and figures about the LHC, as well as a small explanation of what it’s all about.
*that’s me.
So Anna’s been yelling in another language at the World Cup for about two hours. Figured I’d start secretly recording her hooping and hollaring for fun. I’m a World Cup dummy, so I ask her who’s who. She distractedly tells me all I need to know, and her brain’s still in Spanish gear:
“Azul es España; naranja es Estúpido.”
How To Eat A Mangosteen: Step 5
Anna received a bag filled with her very most favorite food today, as a surprise gift from Bailey: mangosteens. She’s still flipping out about ‘em. Click on through to see how these things get cracked into.
The flavor and texture of mangosteens are notoriously hard to describe, but I’ve decided they’re equal parts orange, grape and banana. In the egg case of an alien. That should cover all the bases.
San Franciso Gay Pride 2010.
(n.b. If you’re in SF, do yourself a favor and come watch Anna dance her ass off with some of her new friends.)
Figurative Map of the successive losses in men of the French Army in the Russian campaign 1812-1813. Drawn up by M. Minard, Inspector General of Bridges and Roads in retirement. Paris, November 20, 1869. All salient information, scales and location data subsequently removed by Jason Permenter, San Francisco, June 22, 2010.
