“There is only one god, and his name is Updates”

I think this every time I get the OS X update pop-up.

Hosting My Own Things

Lately, I have been interested in seeing how much of what I do online could be hosted by myself, on my own server, in my house. It’s also a good excuse to play with virtual machines and generally be nerdy. To that end, I have imported my entire Tumblr blog to this WordPress site that I built and am hosting myself. Hooray.

ilovecharts: sign at The Eagle & Child, pub in Oxford where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their friends would hang out. –diplosanti

jtotheizzoe: Just picked up my daily planner for 2014. It’s a Le Petit Prince special edition. Can’t wait to see what I fill it with.

Santa at nearly the speed of light

Santa at nearly the speed of light jtotheizzoe: This time of year, children who know their physics may start to question if Santa could possibly be real. Luckily, Fermilab’s got ya covered! Very enjoyable look at the physics of Santa’s delivery schedule. Fun fact: If Santa travels at 99.999999% the speed of light, not only does he finish his route in 500 seconds and never age thanks to time dilation, but Rudolph’s red nose gets shifted into the ultraviolet range thanks to his velocity and blueshift!

kiggor: If other planets were at the same distance as our moon

jtotheizzoe: Science, Religion, and the Big Bang Here’s a look at the history of intellectual and religious conflict surrounding the beginning of everything, and why the “Big Bang” should really be called the “Everywhere Stretch”, from minutephysics. The idea of infinity really breaks the human mind, and that’s been a source of spiritual angst since we started thinking about it. New science suggests that the universe might be closer to eternal than you might think. Only, in a different way than you might have been taught.

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thefrogman: Biddy the Hedgehog [instagram] I had a hedgehog named Rachel once.

colchrishadfield: Good morning! Perspective – how big is our Moon?

The cutest kitten gifs ever on tumblr

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