The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas

I think I just found my new favorite song. :)

If you haven't noticed already, there are a few things that I am borderline-obsessed with. One might be CSI NY (though I'm in denial), but the other DEFINATELY is mentalfloss. Ah, mentalfloss--where were you in my youth? If I had known about this site/magazine, it's possible I would be even more hopelessly nerdy than I already am.

Anyway... mentalfloss never fails me. Today under the Morning Cup o' Links, I found this link: http://flavorwire.com/86872/mixtape-10-songs-for-science-nerds, which is all about the top ten songs for science nerds(duh). Anyway, it's great... I haven't listened to each clip all the way through, but the few I have are awesome. My favorites so far are "She Blinded Me With Science" by Thomas Dolby and "Why Does the Sun Shine (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas" by They Might Be Giants. I definately recommend checking it out if you like music, or if you like science, or if you like both!

Also--here are the Friday Happy Hour Questions that I love so much (also from Mentalfloss):

1.What movies have you marched out of?
2. Have you ever had a pet with an interesting name, or a good story behind the moniker?
3.What’s the most inappropriate question you’ve ever been asked in a work setting?
4.Did any of you own anything worse (than random jerseys from sports teams)?

1. I have never walked out of a movie, but I did walk out of a seriously disturbing play during college once. It was written about this woman who was struggling with suicidal urges and eventually kills herself, which sounded interesting, but the play was really abstract and the actors liked to run through the aisles and get in your face a lot… and I just didn’t like it. At intermission, I took a bathroom break and didn’t come back.

2. Having had several pets, I think a few of them qualify for interesting names: I had cats named Mr. Meow, Ugly (who wasn’t ugly at all), Lil’Cat (who was a very fluffy and fat) and lastly, Padme, named for Luke and Leia’s mum.

3. I had a co-worker once loudly ask me if I was a lesbian (in front of several customers) because a female friend of mine gave me a rather expensive gift. I found it rather sad that the only thing she could correlate with a nice gift was that a sexual favor was required in return. Also, in college once, I had a male professor ask me in a round-about way if I were dating anyone and then proceeded to make inappropriate sexual comments afterwards.

4.The wierdest thing I ever had was the walls of my room plastered (literally) with Audrey Hepburn, Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett pictures that I had photocopied from books, magazines, etc. Now, I know it’s not unusual for a kid to have celebrity pictures on her wall, but this was the nineties and none of my friends had ever even HEARD of these people. I got some wierd looks.