Boiling eggs for 2 and a half hours fail.

I have been craving an egg salad sandwich. So I bought the eggs. And I waited two weeks before I was going to boil them. And even when I was walking home from school and people were asking what I was doing for Friday night. Y'know what I told them? "I'm gonna boil eggs!" Yeah!

There is only one problem with boiling eggs. They take a while to boil and you kinda sorta set it, and forget it. Y'know? Okay, maybe that's just me. So I kinda sorta left a boiling pot of eggs while I browsed the internet for 2 and a half hours. It was around 9:20 while I was browsing through a large list of fail pictures, I started to smell an egg smell. It was at that instant I shouted "OH MY GOSH!!!" And ran into the now smoky kitchen. I turned the stove off immediately. And then I grabbed a cup of cold water and poured it into the now completely bone dry and burnt pot of egg shells and egg product. I then opened up the window to let the smoke out. Thank goodness the fire alarm didn't go off. But there was a considerable egg mess. I had no idea egg shell could fly so far, I kept finding new bits and pieces of shell around the kitchen.

It was at that point I grabbed my camera.

Fail, lot's of fail.

I wasted 13 eggs and I'm no closer to an egg salad sandwich.

And I spent a good hour of my Friday night cleaning up the kitchen before my roommates came back. Incidentally, I was literally taking an after photo when my roommates walked through the door. They haven't mentioned anything about smelling a weird smell, so it looks like I'm safe.

Until they find this blog.

Carl Sagan's Cosmos

So I was listening to an episode of the GeekNights podcast, and Rym's thing of the night was this strange song. The first time I listened to it, it was weird and I didn't like it. But after listening to it a couple more times, I really liked it; especially this amazing chorus:

"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"

This "song" doesn't rhyme and it's really just a techno remix, but it's so interesting. Particularly this line: "The sky calls to us if we do not destroy ourselves we will one day venture to the stars." I think I could base an entire novel around that one line.

Apparently this entire song is based on a documentary done in 1980 called Cosmos. According to Rym on Geeknights, this one documentary is the basis for why a lot of people got into astronomy. Conveniently enough, the entire 13 episode documentary is on Hulu.

So I just watched the first episode and it all felt like information I had heard before. But I did learn about this Eratosthenes person. He was able to figure out the earth was round and calculate the exact circumference of the earth by using shadows at the exact same time of day in two different locations 800 km apart. I had learned in elementary school that it was Christopher Columbus that discovered the earth was round when he didn't fall off the earth on his way to the new world. Eratosthenes needs WAY more credit for his discovery.

The first episode of Carl Sagan's: "Cosmos" interested me, and I think I'll be going and watching the rest of the series on Hulu slowly over the next few weeks.

XKCD's relationship advice

Wow, XKCD does it again. Oh, the awkwardity of it all.

Why am I getting a blog?

See, the thing that's stopped me from getting a blog in the past was the whole "privacy" thing. I don't want anyone to know who I am. And I especially don't want them reading what I write. So why I am getting a blog?

I dunno lol

I chalk it up to... it sounded like a good idea at the time.