the lhc and you » So two days ago I put the site mentioned below up, as a sort of public service. Got a few dozen hits the first day, and something like 50k yesterday, so it's good to know that I'm helping people stay informed about the state of the world. There's also another similar site out there, in case you need independent verification or don't believe me.
The funniest thing about this all is that I was talking about it with Katie last night as we were going to sleep & so my last thoughts before drifting off were all along the lines of What if the world really DOES just blip out of existence? I should've done more with my life! Maybe I should put some underwear on, just in case! Not the most pleasant pre-sleep thoughts, of course. And then, around 4am, not one but TWO of our smoke detectors started giving off that annoying once a minute PLEASE CHANGE MY BATTERIES beep-beep-beep. Of course, given that I'm usually a dope when I wake up anyway, and my final thoughts before I drifted off, I woke up with something along the lines of
The funniest thing about this all is that I was talking about it with Katie last night as we were going to sleep & so my last thoughts before drifting off were all along the lines of What if the world really DOES just blip out of existence? I should've done more with my life! Maybe I should put some underwear on, just in case! Not the most pleasant pre-sleep thoughts, of course. And then, around 4am, not one but TWO of our smoke detectors started giving off that annoying once a minute PLEASE CHANGE MY BATTERIES beep-beep-beep. Of course, given that I'm usually a dope when I wake up anyway, and my final thoughts before I drifted off, I woke up with something along the lines of
"OHSHITTHEWORLD'SENdingohwaitnoit'sjustthesmokedetectorseverythingsok."