Agronesia

I just got a stomach problem some days ago, and that made me think about the types of stomach problems that exist, and ones that could possibly exist! The principle that I will use here is the inherent symmetry in the universe. On the large scale, we have day and night, male and female (OK, OK, female and male!). Going deep down we have G with its pair C, and A which loves T (sometimes U comes to wreck their relationship though). We even have the electron and positron pair! Whew…

OK, first we have nausea which causes vomiting:

See, the food goes out from the stomach through your mouth. Do we have its counterpart? Of course, that eating!

(If you can see where where this conversation is heading and doesn’t feel comfortable, please do not continue)

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I dare say this Mr. 588011503136145672 is an elliptical galaxy

I found this website named Galaxy Zoo. After we register there and pass the test (yes, there’s a test!) we can start help them classify galaxies! Another great way to spend your time when you’re bored.

Although there are only 6 categories to choose there, apparently asking for human help is better than making a program to classify it. If you don’t know anything about galaxy shapes (like me), don’t worry because there’s a very visitor-friendly tutorial.

From the 15-question test, I answered 12 correctly and passed:

Thanks to the tutorial, I now know some stuffs about galaxy classification. First we have the boring elliptical ones and the more interesting spiral ones. The spiral galaxies can be further classified based on their twirling direction, clockwise or counter clockwise. Then we also have image of merging galaxies and anomalous image caused by stars or satellites.

Most of the stuffs I encountered there were low quality blobs so far, but I’m hoping to discover a conical galaxy one day.

This shirt contains the Thailand alphabet. I lived in Thailand for around 4 years, but couldn’t read anything at all. What’s interesting is that the Wikipedia articled states that space is generally not used in writing because most words are monosyllabic. Never realized that also.

I sadly couldn’t speak Thai. Well, I probably can speak the two most important expressions for a man: “khong nam ti nai?” (where is the toilet?) and “pom rak kun” (I (male) love you). I’m of course using the never-before-heard Agronesian romanization.

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