The Castillian Blog

I never heard of ferrofluids before, but they are awesome. And they reminded me of the non-Newtonian fluid experiments we did in junior high science class: (turn off sound first) cornstarch at 80Hz, punching a liquid causes it to turn into a solid, borax gloop. There's lots more kinds of non-Newtonian fluids. You can try MIT but I couldn't get the videos to work. Stupid kids on youtube just like the cornstarch stuff.

Labels: fun for the whole family, it came from outer spaaaace, squirrelly behavior

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For What Purpose?

"When we were in college we used to take a popcorn popper -- because that was the only thing they would let us have in the dorms -- and fry squirrels in the popcorn popper." -- Mike Huckabee, this morning on MSNBC.

Labels: politics, squirrelly behavior

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Thursday

The news this week has gone something like this:

Sunday: Ole Miss fires head football coach Ed Orgeron. Rumors on the Ole Miss sports message boards suggest AD Pete Boone and even Chancellor Khayat may resign. They suggest Senator Trent Lott will get Khyat's job. Orgeron's contract will be funded through help of prominent boosters like Dickie Scruggs. Scruggs is Lott's wife's brother-in-law (Scrugg's wife and Lott's wife are sisters).

Monday: Senator Trent Lott announces he will resign before the end of the year. USM fires head football coach Jeff Bower. Houston Nutt resigns as head football coach for Arkansas.

Tuesday: Ole Miss sends Dickie Scruggs' jet to pick up Nutt and bring him to Ole Miss to take Orgeron's job. The FBI sends agents to Dickie Scruggs' office to serve a warrant and search for a document.

Wednesday: Ole Miss introduces Nutt, thanks Scruggs for the use of his jet. Scruggs is indicted for bribery and arrested. Also, Pervez Musharraf resigns as Army Chief of Pakistan.

Who will replace Trent Lott in the Senate? Who will pay for the Ole Miss coaches? Will Pakistan finally transition to a stable democracy? And how does Coach Bower fit into this? Who knows what today will bring...but one thing for sure, come by the Willie Morris Birthday Party at my house tonight.

Labels: celebrity gossip, fun for the whole family, Going To "Jail" For A Good Cause, Lawyers, Pakistan, politics, porches, squirrelly behavior, Willie Morris

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Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3

This is the news from Berlin: An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday. With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.

The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole.

"After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man's garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh," the spokesman said. "Then he killed it with his crutch." The spokesman said experts thought the attack may have been linked to the mating season or because the squirrel was ill.

Labels: antics, night of the lepus, squirrelly behavior, the final battle

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