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June 7, 2005
sunshine and chocolates
It was a two pug, one schnauzer run this morning. I’ve been missing Boris, the bulldog puppy lately. I’m quite sad at this.
When I stepped out this morning, the sky was filled with helicopters. There was five of them, all fixated on a place a tad west and south of my apartment. I didn’t, of course, know what was going on, but quickly figured that, though I was about to run toward them (on my normal running route), that I didn’t think I would run into whatever they were watching. Truthfully, I figured it was a bad traffic accident on the highway.
By the time I was running back toward home, the ‘copters were gone. I heard on NPR during my shower that there was a serious fire at this intersection a block from the edge of my route (about half a mile from home).
Here is what they were taking pictures of. It is very sad. 3 guys died in this apartment fire. I just realized that this is exactly where our friend Chipper the med student lives. Dude. I hope he’s okay…..just talked to hunk o’ man. We determined that he lives a little east of there. Whew.
No word on what happened.
I’ve been planning this conference for a while now. It is Monday. It is sucking up a lot of my time. But that is okay. It is going to be swell. And I am going to so glad when it is done.
What is wet? Steve defines wetness as the interface between water and something else. Therefore water itself can’t be wet. Ben defines wetness as the feeling of water evaporation off his finger. Therefore water can’t be wet. Actually, scientifically, the definition of wetness is the ability of a molecule (or set of) to wet a surface, which has to do with the difference in surface energy of the two surfaces. The smaller the difference in surface energy, the more one set of molecules will wet the other. See so asking if water is wet is an incorrect question. Steve is correct, wetness can only be defined by interfaces. Therefore water can’t be wet. But if you decided to define both of your molecules as water, than both the surface energies will be the same, causing complete wetting. So water can be wet. The question is unanswerable.
Posted by christina at June 7, 2005 3:45 PM