• People smarter than we are have determined that our Universe is 13.7 billion years old. I feel very uneasy knowing this. It’s like hearing something I’m not supposed to know. The scientists also add it was a natural birth, of a Tuesday morning, the father wanted to name it Connor, the mother wanted to name it Brianna, and the Universe can’t wait till it can drive in two billion years.The big question of course is what was the Universe doing 13.71 billion years ago? But, as an old college friend once said, thinking like that just hurts your brain.
• I witnessed the creation of a new word today: “Awesolent“. Leo Laporte said it on The Screen Savers, inadvertently combining awesome and excellent as he thanked a guest. I’m unsure on the spelling though: whether it should be “awesolent” or “awcellent”.
