Posts from May 2nd, 2008

Hey! Guess what I got. Here’s a hint:

It’s shingles! The second coming of the virus that causes chickenpox!

It thankfully isn’t a very bad case. It’s only a couple of inches on the back of my neck, and is more annoying (and unsightly) than actively painful. Just stings a little. The swelling is starting to go down and the blisters are starting to crust over, so I should be getting steadily better over the next week or so.

What would happen if you threw a boomerang in a microgravity environment (like, say, if you were in the International Space Station)? Well, now thanks to astronaut Takao Doi, we have the answer, and it is completely awexome:

(via Pink Tentacle)