Sunday, October 17, 2010

A cool Father's day present II

My family did it again. As they did last year, they gave me a DVD of a season of The Big Bang Theory. I am looking forward to watching all of Season 3. Most of the episodes I have not seen because we do not own a TV. But a few I have seen on planes. In the first episode Sheldon is dis-illusioned when he finds out that he did not detect magnetic monopoles and thus confirm string theory on his trip to the Arctic.... He was actually detecting noise from the electric can opener... Too bad he had already sent an email to everyone in the university about his results...

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