"he that believeth in me"

A friend came over last night and we ordered Chinese food and then watched "Crossroads" Parts 1 & 2, and then settled in to watch 04x01, "He That Believeth In Me" for which my love can be textually rendered.

( *flail* *flail* LOVE )

Next week's episode looks AMAZING.

Now I need to figure out if I have enough time to watch the season finale of Torchwood before the same friend shows up for our trip to the Detroit science museum.

even with photoshop i still say WTF...

After an awesome day at the Detroit Science Center we stopped at Borders and I picked up two books, Light Years by Brian Clegg and Quantum Physics by Alastair I. M. Rae.

Light Years "looks over the shoulders of the great revolutionaries of light theory--Bacon, Galileo, Newton, Faraday, Maxwell and Feynman--and traces the evolution of light-driven devices from the camera to the laser...author Brian Clegg reveals how twenty-first century scientists have achieved the seemingly impossible in bringing light to a halt, and used the quantum properties of entangled light to produce unbreakable encryption and unbelievable computers."

The book includes the optical illusion below and I am still BAFFLED by it. The shades of gray in tile A and tile B are the exact same. How is it possible that my mind sees two shades of gray when it's the same color? I even cut out the tiles in Photoshop to try to prove the illusion wrong but they're the same color. HOW?



There's more information on this illusion here.

( I did have time to watch the season finale of Torchwood this morning )

A colleague lent me the Dr. Who s3 DVDs which I think I'm going to try out. I borrowed them primarily for the purpose of watching the Jack episodes but, if I like the show, I'll stick with it for season four. I tried watching in s1 and quit because it was a bit too campy for my tastes. Perhaps, now that I fell for the universe as a whole, I'll feel differently.