We’re Still Alive!

So good news on the “World being plunged into a matter splitting black hole” front.

It wasn’t!

This morning at 3:30 am (EST) some scientists thought it would be a good idea to collide protons at super high speeds with a Hadron Collider, thus recreating the milliseconds after the Big Bang. That sounds cool and all, but it worried me for one reason.

Hadron Collider

Tiny black holes would be created in the process. Here, on Earth, would be tiny black holes.

My knowledge of black holes is solely derived from Star Trek and other sci-fi shows and movies. And in all of these examples, black holes are never used as a vacation spot.

But, as of right now, I’m alive, and tens of you are reading this, so everything must have gone okay. Huzzah for science not destroying our reality!

Now I can go about my life as I did before, not changing a thing about it, despite being threatened with non-existence.

I’m Far Too Easily Awed

You guys. I’m on a bus right now THIS VERY SECOND blogging. This bus has free wi-fi.

Does that register as FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC on your radar screen?? Because I’m overdosing on awesome right now.

I was on vacation this past week, having spent Labor Day weekend with friends in New Hampshire, and the rest of the time back home in Boston. I’ll be posting pictures sometime next week of the New Hampshire expedition, but in the meanwhile, let me gush about being on a bus. And on the internet. Both at the same time.

I usually take Greyhound or Peter Pan to go back and forth between NYC and Boston. If you bus the tickets online, it’s fairly cheap [somewhere around $30-$40] and not that bad of a ride. However, I’ve been hearing about this company Bolt Bus for the last few months, so I decided to try them out for the return trip today.

You guys, I’m totally on the Harry Potter bus right now, it’s so great.

Not only do you get free wi-fi, but the seats are super comfy, and I have plenty of room for my legs. I’m about 6′2″ or so, with about 5 feet of that being my legs, so sitting comfortably has always been a problem on buses. But not here!

Bolt only travels between DC, Philly, NYC and Boston, I believe, and I haven’t heard about any expansions, but I could be wrong. I assume, though, that for people in the Northeast, this will be an amazing new adventure for you all to try out.

Pricewise, I figure it is comparable to Greyhound et al. And even though I’ve only been on the bus for less than 2 hours, I can say with full confidence it is already better than my ride into Boston last week. Primarily because the bus driver is sane and vocally moderate. Whereas ‘Frank’ from Greyhound consistently talked to himself, spoke as if he were surrounded by deaf children, and pulled over at a rest stop for just 5 minutes. Just so he could use the bathroom in the back of the bus. While we sat and waited for him. Because he didn’t let us out.

The only benefit of that ride was the bonding the passengers experienced as we sat in southern Massachusetts while being forced to listen to Frank pee. Honestly, an experience I’d rather have passed on, but I guess you have to take what you can get.

Anyways, the short of it is I’m on the internet and in a bus and I’m pretty ecstatic over it all. Bolt Bus all the way, baby!

Time Waster Tuesday – Researching Sarah Palin

Whether you want to waste time on it or not, the new time waster of the week is totally Sarah Palin. It’s like you can’t go to the internet about anything nowadays without it yapping in your face about Sarah Palin. Ask Internet about foreign policy, and Internet gabs about a video of Palin shooting guns in Kuwait. Tell Internet you’re interested in some celebrity baby gossip, and BAM, there’s Sarah Palin breast feeding what may or may not be her daughter’s baby.

Internet just won’t shut up about her. If this were the biblical era, and trackbacks were the equivalent to locusts, we would be in full fledged plague mode right now.

This, though, is by far the best thing I’ve seen about Palin. I stumbled across this on Buzzfeed and have pretty much dedicated the last 40 minutes of my life to clicking the reply button on each of the these three videos.

These videos made me realize how much Sarah Palin resembles Frances McDormand, aka Police Chief Marge Gunderson. Isn’t it weird how the states that no one cares about always somehow roll into one another?
Check out other vlogs by Gov. Sarah Palin at Que Sera Sera. And other news about Sarah Palin can be found on every corner of the world wide web. Whether you like it or not.