2014.03.31: Aglets REDUX

Aglets are small contraptions used at the ends of certain types of strings, most notable shoelaces, to bind them at the loose ends and keep them from unraveling. Without them, one's shoelaces would become unbound and slowly fray into a mess of threads and fibers that would be almost impossible to tie properly. Not to mention the bits of material that would very easily become ensnared in the loose ends of the laces.

2014.03.25: Safety, Not Satan

Safety is, obviously, the practice of keeping one's self and others put of harm's way and reducing any possible risks involved in an activity as much as possible, humanly so or otherwise. It is always important to observe proper safety procedures while doing anything at all. One thing that is vital to honing one's safety skills is a magical phenomenon known as common sense. Always practice proper safety and common sense, and one should make it through life with minimal harm done to themselves and others.

2013.03.24: How Very Extremely Nucleic

A nucleotide sequence, or nucleic acid sequence, is the order of nucleotides within DNA and RNA. Given how this sequence holds the information that governs the body and it's functions, it is also known as the genetic sequence. It can also be described as a sequence of letters, given how letters are commonly used to represent individual nucleotides.

2013.03.21: Three-Dimensional Anaglyphic Images of Anaglyphicness and 3D

Image from Wikipedia

A 3D Anaglyph is a stereoscopic image divided into layers marked with two colors, commonly red and cyan. When viewed with the appropriate eyewear, these images appear to have added dimension and depth, appearing to become three-dimensional instead of two. The effect is accomplished by the glasses allowing one to see the two differently-colored images at the same time, which makes the brain perceive the 2D image as 3D.

2014.03.20: The Origins of The Internet

There are two terms that are often used to describe the same thing, and it should be added that said usage is incorrect. There is a difference between then Internet and the World Wide Web, being that the Internet is the global network of connected computers that houses the World Wide Web, which is simply a massive collection of data. Donald Davies and Paul Baran independently invented packet switched computer networking in the US and UK respectively, their work eventually leading to the creation of the Internet, making their work among, if not the earliest points to which the history of the Internet can be traced back to.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies

2014.03.14: The Man With The Machine Beard

I've been put to a bit of a challenge this day. While I cannot use any names, I am able to describe a faculty member from my school in the hopes that someone reading this from said school will be able to guess whom I speak of. Without further adieu, I present a very obvious description of another person.

His beard is a thing of legend within the pale brick walls of the school, said to be able to conquer any razor that challenges it. His glasses are stated to be all-seeing and infallible, a pair of lenses from which none may escape, from which none may know freedom. The man himself is both revered and feared across the entire school, from the lowliest children in kindergarten to the grown men and women of the senior classes. Ever since the arrival of the Bearded Master, the school has become more and more enriched with knowledge than ever before, as well as countless facial hair jokes.

2014.03.12: The Chaos-Bringer's Adventures #2 - The Evils of Boiled Asparagus

Soon after his encounter with the polystyrene planet of endless offenses to the god of darkness, Unicron's fell advent to a planet of strange green hues occurred. Despite the fact that space has little in the way of air to transmit scents, and how Unicron's body was robotic, he could smell a horrid aroma wafting off the green planet's surface. However, the chaotic god's hunger was not impeded by the smell, and he set to work devouring the hapless vegetative sphere. He regretted the decision, it now being too late to shift to his titanic robot form to destroy what he was eating, as it was a planet of naught but boiled asparagus. HORRIBLE!!! He made sure to down the entire planet quickly lest this foul taste linger in his metallic system, and sent out a piercing psionic scream to voice his disapproval. With such curious and offensive objects as the planets he's seen hanging within existence, it was no wonder Unicron desired to eradicate all of reality.

2014.03.11: TIME ITSELF

There are many denominations of time, both small and large, and many in-between. I've always wondered what some of the units of temporal measurement aside from seconds, minutes, hours, single years and the like are, and today I've come to an answer. There are measurements of time for periods of a million years (megaannum), a billion years (gigaannum), and more. People may not think of seconds as very large portions of time, but something on the scale of teraseconds, which is one trillion seconds, would equal out to almost 32,000 years. Ages, epochs, and eons are long periods, but it turns out that they are non-specific and only refer to periods within certain ranges of lengths. Time is very interesting.

2014.03.10: The Chaos-Bringer's Styrofoam Dilemma

An object of vast size hurtled throughout the cosmos, a sentient metal planet seeking other celestial spheres to devour. It's name, if any cared enough to know before their lives were silenced with the oblivion of their respective planets, was Unicron. The mythical god of chaos soon found it's next target, a large sphere of pure white. While it was uninhabited, Unicron cared not as it had been some time since he had last consumed something, and while he did not truly require any physical sustenance at all, he still felt a hunger within him. As the titanic horn-like mandibles flanking his central maw found their marks on the before untarnished surface of the white orb, Unicron realized something - it was a planet of Styrofoam he had targeted. It had become quite apparent with how easily his metallic mandibles had sunk into the surface, and with the scans that followed immediately afterwards. The god of evil would have laughed at the sheer preposterousness of the entire situation he found himself in if he wasn't so angered by it, finding himself devouring the polystyrene planet that much faster. He had no idea why anyone would find themselves motivated to create such a curious planet, and it only added to his desire to consume all of reality. Quite idiotic, truly, that this even had a reason to happen, the god mused to himself in a strange combination of sheer irritation and slight humor, as he continued on through the ether of space to his next meal.

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