Mon 25 Apr 2011
My social networking profile’s status message last night was:
Cindy does NOT understand how the weekend can be over already. Where did it go? This is like how back in 1992 or so, they had never isolated the “naked beauty” (or “naked bottom”) quark. Not that particle physics (bosons & quantum electrodynamics) quite rise to the mystery of disappearing weekends…
I thought it’d be funny cuz, who compares a weekend to particle physics? It’s so arbitrary. (Unless you work for NASA, I guess.) BUT, I also thought that at least a few of my science-minded friends would get a kick out of the analogy of “a weekend you know exists but that you somehow can’t quantify : a quark that all theory points to existing but that still hasn’t been officially isolated and quantified.” But the only comment this status message drew was from my friend Dardy, with whom I had an entire preceding convo about posting this status message before I’d even posted it.
BUT… “Cindy thinks some ice cream is in order now.” 19-comment-long interactive string of conversation with various people.
“Cindy had non-fat yogurt, which then entitles her to full-fat string cheese, right?” 15-comment conversation string, various people, 3 “likes.”
I guess I made an “analogy fail.” =P
Awww….don’t feel bad. Maybe some of your science-minded friends just didn’t see your status yet 😉 I, am officially announcing that I am NOT one of your science-minded friends. I read your status aloud to B last night and when I was finished I said “i can’t even SAY 5 of these words, and I for sure don’t know what they MEAN” LOL We got a chuckle, so don’t consider it a fail…we just didn’t chuckle from the original intent. xoxo
That WAS one of the original intents, that someone would read it and it would be all absurd and they’d go, “Wha?” 🙂 So I guess it worked with you guys!
The only part of it that registered with me was the naked bottom…and I meant to go back and ask about it but I had a student with all day…and I thought that asking about naked bottoms while she was here was probably not a good idea. 😀
She’s a student, she would probably be interested in such learning. 🙂
I got it, but I didn’t have enough of a working knowledge of particle physics to form a witty reply. I was trying to come up with a “strange” comment to go along with your “bottom” and “top”, but I drew a blank.
i think your science-minded friends are more introverted (and less interested in witty repartee) than your friends who engage in discussions about food. you know how those science geeks are 😉
Bat – That would’ve been interesting. There may have been something there with the word “rise” in the status message and the +2/3 charge? I dunno. I’m not sure whether “strange” is -1/3 or +2/3.
flip flop – my foodie friends are witty and social AND quite a few are sciency. What was your major?
my undergrad was in industrial engineering and operations research. the “softer side” of engineering 😉
so you’re one of my sciency friends. at least, that’s what I assume. I know nothing about your major.
IEOR is a far cry from particle physics 😛
right, IEOR sounds more like the cry of Dodo when he’s fed up with me combing him.
i never saw that post, but i prob wouldn’t comment bc i don’t understand it.
Oddly enough my chem teacher was going over nuclear chemistry and we touched on quarks. But I am still not sure if I would have automatically gotten your post and i am a Bio major. Hahaha!
anny – that’s okay, you’re my literary friend. you don’t have to be my sciency friend, too. 🙂
Vanessa – it was meant to be esoteric to mainstream anyway, which was what I thought would be funny (and apparently was wrong), altho I’d expected sciency people to understand it. But physics-sciency, not bio-sciency. I’ll see if I can make a reference to endoplasmic reticuli or something in the future for you. 🙂
thank uuuuuuuuuu. where have u been lately? i have been under a mound of moving boxes (which have yet to be filled) LOL
I’ve been at doctors’ appointments, mostly. You’re supposed to tell me when you’re at that stage so I can help! Text me or email me details (deadlines, move dates, etc.).
ct, thank uuu but i’m good for now. hiring movers for the official move in a few weeks, but should get keys next week.
will be home fri packing tho so hit me up if ur home too. hehe.
Ack! We’re doing Mother’s Day (for my mom and grandma) this Fri because Mr. W wants us to spend the actual weekend Mothers Daying with his mother in Vegas. =P
no worries. i’m doing mother’s day on saturday myself. i hope u get special treatment bc ur technically a mom now. 😀 😀
Thanks! I’ll be reporting in. 🙂 Mr. W’s been calling me “baby mama,” which makes me picture a not-pleasant cliche. I tell him to stop aging me. But yes, I am incubating an apparently very active kid.
tell him u prefer MILF