#2776 Crystal BallThey often use ball lenses to collect light at the ends of optical fibers, so when you look stuff up on the internet you're actually scrying through a crystal ball.
#2777 Noise FilterParty Mode also enables the feature, but reverses the slider.
#2778 CuisineMy connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.
#2779 Exoplanet High-5Tau Ceti is farther away, so it took me 36 years to start the war over updog.
#2780 Physical QuantitiesThe Hubble length is about 1.9 meters lying down; Edwin Hubble was a tall guy.
#2781 The Six Platonic SolidsPlato made the solids, and five were gifted to the mathematicians. But in secret Plato forged a sixth solid to rule over all the others.
#2782 Wikipedia Article TitlesI would never stoop to vandalism, but I'm not above discreetly deleting the occasional 'this article contains excessive amounts of detail' tag.
#2783 Ruling OutWe were able to replicate and confirm prior authors' detection of a moon orbiting the Earth with high confidence.
#2784 Drainage BasinsAfter a pail of water was thrown on the Wicked Witch of the West outside Salt Lake City, Utah's Great Salt Lake was measured to be 7 parts per trillion witch by volume.
#2785 Marble RunI have so many plans. It would incorporate a Galton board, a Ranque-Hilsch marble vortex tube, and a compartment lined with pinball bouncers with a camera-and-servo Maxwell's Demon that separated the balls into fast and slow sides.
#2786 UFO Evidence[Decades in the future] "Well, the good news is that we've received definitive communication from aliens. The bad news is that they're asking about Cats (2019)."
#2787 Iceberg90% of the iceberg is hidden beneath the water, but that 90% only uses 10% of its brain, so it's really only 9%.
#2788 Musical ScalesIn the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper.
#2789 Making PlansOh no, I haven't checked in with Yvonne in YEARS.
#2790 Heat PumpIf I'm not going to upgrade to a powered one, I should at LEAST stop leaving the door open so often.
#2791 Bookshelf SortingOf course, I sort all my bookshelves the normal way, alphabetically (by first sentence).
#2792 Summer SolsticeThen I'll start work on my lunar engines to line the Moon up with the ecliptic so we can have a solar eclipse every month (with a little wobble so they're not always on the equator.)
#2793 Garden Path SentenceArboretum Owner Denied Standing in Garden Path Suit on Grounds Grounds Appealing Appealing
#2794 Alphabet NotesListen, you're very cute, but if you rearrange the alphabet to put U and I together it will RUIN the spacing!
#2795 Glass-Topped TableYou can pour a drink into it while hosting a party, although it's a real pain to fit in the dishwasher afterward.
#2796 Real Estate AnalysisMars does get a good score on 'noise levels' and 'scenic views,' but the school district ranking isn't great; the only teacher--the Perseverance rover--is too busy with rock samples to teach more than the occasional weekend class.
#2797 Actual ProgressSlowly progressing from 'how do protons behave in relativistic collisions?' to 'what the heck are protons even doing when they're just sitting there?'
#2798 Room TemperatureThey're also refusing to fund my device that demonstrates uncontrolled hot fusion.
#2799 Frankenstein Claim PermutationsWhen I began trying to form a new claim by stitching together these parts in such an unnatural way, some called me mad.
#2800 DownIt's just that I get nervous about heights.
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