Christmas list

Figured I'd go ahead and throw up a Christmas/Birthday list here so everyone can have it if they so desire.

Clothing:
I could use some work clothes. I pretty much just wear jeans to work as of late. So anything that works equally well with kahkies as well as jeans would be best. I could use both long sleeve and short sleeve clothing as well.

I also could use some new t-shirts. Just 3-4 of them. Mine seem to be getting older.

Playstation 3 games:
I recently got a PS3 here are some games I wouldnt mind getting, that I probably won't get for myself at least.

Valkaria Chronicles
Assassin's Creed 2
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
God of War: Collection for PS3
Demons Souls

Movies/Blu-ray ect:
I do have a blu-ray player, so some blu-rays would be awesome though more expensive...

Farscape: The Complete Series
The Dark Knight (on blu-ray though, I already have it on dvd)
District 9

Other:
Printer/Scanner - nothing fancy needed really. Wireless would be awesome.

Anyways I know I don't have too much on here as of yet, but I'll try to update this as I think of things. Hope this is helpful to everyone.
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection

Renn Fest

The past weekend I had Ken and Becky come up from Charlotesville to visit. We then met up with Tom and his girlfriend and went to the Maryland Renaissance fair. A Renn fair of course, as I was trying to describe to Mom, is kinda like a reproduction of a village. Where in each building there will be food, and crafts. Anything from pottery, period clothing, blown glass, swords both real and wooden, to jewelry. It is an oportunity for some poeple to dress up in costumes as they wander around the fair. And of course the shows are free and really lots of fun. Everything from Shakespear Skum plays, to jesters and dancing. The traditional food is the turkey leg, and no good Renn fair is without its jousting. Below are a few pictures I managed to procure.

Heizenberg Principle

Above is an image of a molecule! The incredibleness of this image is nothing short of mind boggling. In order to take this picture they have to freeze it down to 5 kelvin. To put that into perspective water freezes at 273 kelvin. At 0 kelvin a gas is absolutely stable, not moving at all. it is the theoretical minimal of temperature. It was imaged with atomic force microscopy, using an incredibly small cantilever. Meaning, they created the image my touching it. Normally when you think of an image its a capturing of light. Here they are capturing it by touching it, and creating a contour that way. The reason why they do that, is that light isn't small enough. Figure vacuum extreme ultraviolet light is about 10 nm. This molecule above is 1.4 nm. So the wavelength of light itself is too large to be able to give an accurate representation of the molecule.

That brings us to the hiezenberg principle. The more you know about one thing, the less you know about another. You can't know both the position and momentum of a microcopic particle at the same time. To get around that though, as you see.... they had to take away the momentum, thus freezing it down to 5 kelvin. And this is the reason why sadly, as of right now, we are unable to use teleporters like in Star Trek. Unless maybe, you freeze everyone down to absolute zero before you teleport someone.