It's been raining...

Yay to grand and glorious streams of thunderstorms rolling through and loud rolling thunder and lightning. Less appreciated when still going at 3am, but the rain on the roof noise was still very nice.
Appart from the large puddles everywhere, you can tell it has been raining from the curiously red fronts on the otherwise gleaming (well, at least a little more white) cockatoos - I suspect the usual dust bath cleaning mechanism had a few problems...

And from someone's sig line in an email:

Physics is like sex; sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Richard Feynman

Said quoted physicist is also responsible for:

Physics is to maths what sex is to masturbation.

:)
And in a follow up to the last post, the Christchurch Health and Developement Study can be found here. Wish I had their publication rate...

Edit: and for later checking anachrotech for the steam punk fans out there...