Inside Ninja’s mind
Ninja November 16th, 2007
A lot of times when I’m sleep-deprived & having a conversation, it’ll seem like I just like to throw non-sequiturs out there. But really, there is a strange line of reasoning. For example:
• Radiohead’s Like Spinning Plates will be playing.
• So my thoughts naturally go to Richard Feynman being awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for fooling around with “spinning plates.” Cliff Notes: Feynman observed that the wobble of a plate appeared to be different from the wobble of the Cornell emblem printed on it. This observation eventually led to a new theory of nuclear physics. He later said, “The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.”
• I then shift my thoughts to Feynman diagrams and a subclass of Feynman diagrams, which are called “Penguin diagrams.”
• And then I’ll look over at Penguin and say, “You know Feynman diagrams? I don’t really think they look like penguins.”
• This is why I shouldn’t be allowed to talk when I haven’t had enough sleep. =)
• But the strangest thing of all—Penguin actually gets me and isn’t phased by this!
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