- We all did weird stuff during lockdown… - Was gonna say, covid if anything made me more focused. I did so many side projects 
 
- Pictured: Sir Isaac Newton discovered gay rays on this day, which is why we celebrate pride. - Pictured: Isak Newton proves that going outside is gay 
 
 - Excellent picture of an excellent album. “The Black Album” is absolutely one of my favorite AC/DC albums. Not quite on par with “Nevermind”, but it’s definitely up there. “Stairway to heaven” alone makes this one of John Foggertys legendary works. - PS: It was a loss to the band when Wes Borland left, but David Gilmore is a pretty great replacement drummer. 
 
- things you can do to kill time in confinment 
- Then by year two of his lockdown, Newton was inserting a tiny lever under his own eyeball, inside the eye socket, to try and figure out how the eye captures and processes light. - I wonder what Newton would have done if he were alive today and tried to figure out furries. 
 
- We’ve all heard the story of the falling apple, but did you know Newton figured out light while trying to make an album cover? - anal bum cover? 
 
- ColoUrs, Newton was a well learned man! These meme creators, grrrr! - The U in USA had to come from somewhere! 
- CreatoUrs, thank you very much. 
 
- And calculating far too many digits of π by hand - and what did you do during corona lockdown huhhh??? - Completely rewrite the curriculum and problem sets for my advisor’s grad-level course for flipped-classroom virtual teaching as opposed to in-person lectures. It was the pits for many reasons, not the least of which was that his attitude became “everyone is at home doing nothing, so I can ramble into a recording for 3 h instead of giving 1 h lectures and we can have a full problem set every week instead of 4 in a semester and the scheduled class time is now a problem session amd to answer students’ questions :)”. - And a fuckton of DFT calculations, so honestly, fair. 
 
 
- To many people back then, a prism turning a sumbeam into a spray of colors must have seemed like actual magic happening right before their eyes. - Still does. 
 








