Oz has been going to physical therapy for his foot. One of the exercises that the mean therapist makes him do is pick up marbles with his toes. Oz wanted to be able to practice at home, so we went on a fruitless quest for marbles, which it seems you can only get in sets of Chinese Checkers anymore. Locally, anyway, but we were rescued by the Internet, where one can find The Land of Marbles. Little planets, even. The Earth marbles are really pretty, but the ones Oz bought are lacking a north polar ice cap. Scary. I hope they're not getting ahead of themselves. The Mars marble has two polar ice caps and isn't quite spherical, but I couldn't find Olympus Mons! I'll have to compare the marble with my Mars map.
On this planet, I visited Dr. Smith today. He says that the Hamsters are working well (Dr. Science was asking after me just the other day) and that he'll keep throwing my resume at NASA till it sticks somewhere. It was kind of nice to go back to school and smell the familiar smells and hear the familiar voices, and then leave without dragging a load of homework behind me.
204 words | September 29, 2005 09:14 PM | Real true storyI think they had those at the Air and Space museum last time we went.
The Wireless catalog we just got has a mug with a world map which has polar ice caps when it's cool and when it heats up the caps disappear along with significant chunks of low-lying real estate. Seriously unnerving.
Posted by: Jonathan Dresner at September 29, 2005 10:25 PM