You get to a stage in life sometimes to where you feel like there aren’t going to be any more eyes-wide-open, jaw-on-the-floor blowing your mind revelations that has the capability to change your very way of life.  Up until 5 minutes ago, I felt I was in that position.  One gets to be a few years out of college, you get into a routine, you’ve got your retirement plans and your health insurance, things start to seem like they aren’t going to change all that much for the next 40 years or so.

Then an event comes around and just wipes that out.  Its like hearing music for the first time, or the first time you see a rainbow, or winning the lottery.

I, Brian B Culler, have just been introduced to the magical phenomenon that is known as microwaving bacon. All my life I’ve eaten bacon from a frying pan and loved every tender morsal along the way.  As a quick snack, Lauren just threw a peice of bacon into the microwave for a minute, something I’d never heard of, seen of, or imagined could be possible.

And dare I say it was … better ? It was crispy without being burned, it was nice and dry and not greasy and seems like it would be great on a sandwich.

Screw the pan!  I very well may never again deal with the jumping hot bacon grease, the smoke, the dirty pan.  Today is a new day, my friends… relish it.

I think its time for another peice of bacon

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/mars-phoenix-tw.html

There is water ice on Mars within reach of the Mars Phoenix Lander, NASA scientists announced Thursday.

Photographic evidence settles the debate over the nature of the white material seen in photographs sent back by the craft. As seen in lower left of this image, chunks of the ice sublimed (changed directly from solid to gas) over the course of four days, after the lander’s digging exposed them.

“It must be ice,” said the Phoenix Lander’s lead investigator, Peter Smith. “These little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days, that is perfect evidence that it’s ice.”

I’ve been running Firefox 3 RC at home for quite a while now, in windows XP.  I really liked the new styling of it there, it was bright and fresh and clean.

Well, here I am at work, and Firefox Download Day officially started a couple hours ago, so I downloaded it here on my Macbook.  Good golly this thing is ugly!  Someone said they were trying to mimic the look of iTunes, and if so, good golly iTunes is ugly!  Its dark gray and depressing and the tabs come down from the top for some reason, its just awful.

I hope someone releases new themes for it that make it look like the XP version.

For reference you can take a look: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2008/05/14/firefox-3-themes/