Stella Sue

Painted Mold

I love this sandwich bag with painted on mold. Wouldn't that just cheer you up at lunchtime to pull that out of the fridge at work and have people eye you like the stranger you are?

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Cat's Eye Nebula

From NASA's Image of the Day Gallery

Snatched from NASA's website http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1189.html:
Cat's Eye Hubble Remix
Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat's Eye Nebula lies 3,000 light-years from Earth. The Cat's Eye (NGC 6543) represents a brief, yet glorious, phase in the life of a sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced the simple, outer pattern of dusty concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. But the formation of the beautiful, more complex inner structures is not well understood.

Here, Hubble Space Telescope archival image data have been reprocessed to create another look at the cosmic cat's eye. Compared to well-known Hubble pictures, the alternative processing strives to sharpen and improve the visibility of details in light and dark areas of the nebula and also applies a more complex color palette. Of course, gazing into the Cat's Eye, astronomers may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years.

Image Credit: NASA, MAST, STScI, AURA and Vicent Peris (OAUV/PTeam)

Girls Read Sci Fi

Went to a cool party put on by a book club called Girls Read Sci Fi. It was a fundraiser for the Wonder of Reading. WofR builds and referbishes libraries in public schools in LA, stocks the libraries, and provides volunteers to read to kids. Now that's a worthy cause.

lafont

Where have you been all my life? I found the perfect eye glasses and just wish I could have every style. Delicately designed, perfectly stylish. I love them. Made in Paris, of course.
check them out www.lafont.com