Shiny!

Just caught wind of this vid again, and I remember seeing it a while ago which probably means you're most likely to have seen it as well. But, man, this is too good not to want a second go!

The ladies of Firefly/Serenity in all their glory. Reminds me how much love I had for that series, and for Joss' female characters in general, if you want to get, you know, general.

It was made by YFish42 (user name in youtube) and it is fabulous!

we need lives. stat.

The best friend produced this article about a math code that had been finally solved after 38 years, and of course there is a reason why this guy is my BFF, he knows me, so he knows that stuff like this attracts my attention in inexplicable ways and for equally ineffable reasons.

Which is all very good, you know, in the spirit of learning and expanding horizons, etc, etc. Except. We dragged my boyfriend into it, and now the three of us find ourselves knee-deep in enemy territory wherein the only form of communication is through meaningful glances that mostly mean: what in the hell is this? Or the variation: why are we spending our saturday night doing this?, although my personal favorite is: why in the name of God am I thinking about this?

We are still trying to figure out whether The Road Coloring Problem actually translates into anything in real words. We refuse to give up, I'm taking this as a sign of extreme hard-headedness (pun probably intended, I'm not sure yet) as well as temporary insanity.

Still.