i need a break

...from reading about what I'm reading about.

Well, we're right back into it. September, I mean. And so formulae are again streaming through my head, aching to be remembered. If anything will prove to be my downfall as a professional physicist, it will be my inability to remember things. Have you seen some of the formulae* these people** use? Here, click on this link and you'll see what I mean.

In other news, I tried to get some pictures of the squads of teenagers who play-fight in the park here every Sunday afternoon, hitting each other with big padded swords, kicking up dust, and arguing about whether they had, in fact, killed each other. But I was unsuccessful. So here's a link to someone else's photos of it, which give some small indication of what it's like to witness this event firsthand.

* I had meant to use the more formal plural version of the word only once, for novelty's sake. But then, needing to make additional reference to more-than-one-formula, I decided that consistency was more important than straightforwardness.

** I.e., physicists.