Late and early Dec 4, 2009
I was on a flight yesterday that was delayed in taking off, then reached its final destination ahead of the originally scheduled time.  I'm pretty sure we passed through a wormhole. #travel
Barbados flag Dec 4, 2009
As much as I disliked my experience in Barbados, I have to admit they have a cool flag. 
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#travel
Smooth earth Dec 4, 2009
From Ripley's and verified:  "If shrunk down to the size of a billiard ball, the earth would be about as smooth as one!  Surface variations, such as mountains and the ocean floor, are less than 1/1000th of its diameter."  Mount Everest at 8.85 km and the Marianas Trench at -11 km are inconsequential to a 12,735 km earth. #science
Pi song Dec 4, 2009
The most recent episode of Radio Lab included this awesome three-part harmony song containing the first hundred or so digits of pi (YouTube version, "music video" YouTube version), which was part of a song written by the comedy/parody musical duo Hard 'n Phirm (consisting of Chris Hardwick and Mike Phirman -- pun!) whose own music video version of the song featured a pi-reciting robot who protected children (perhaps of the house of Gryffindor) from two men in red pointed hats whose job it appeared was to zap the children with death rays, and all made to look like a children's educational TV show from the 80s.  Ya know, pretty standard stuff. #math