WOO HEE HAW HAW
This phrase came into general use following the publication Tom Wolfe’s book about the space programme - The Right Stuff, 1979:
“One of the phrases that kept running through the conversation was ‘pushing the outside of the envelope’… [That] seemed to be the great challenge and satisfaction of flight test.”
Wolfe didn’t originate the term, although it’s appropriate that he used it in a technical and engineering context, as it was first used in the field of mathematics.
The envelope here isn’t the container for letters, but the mathematical envelope, which is defined as ‘the locus of the ultimate intersections of consecutive curves’. In a two-dimensional example, the set of lines described by the various positions of a ladder sliding down a wall forms an envelope - in this case an arc, gently curving away from the intersection of the wall and floor. Inside that envelope you will be hit by the ladder; outside you won’t. -Phrase Finder
guys I just learned something
conan o’brien is going to marry people in space or something
edit: also I think I might be bad at reblogging? I have no idea how to format this stuff while adding my own
also also reblogging is a pretty weird word.
re-blog-ging
reblogging
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THANKS GUYS I’M WERNER HERZOG AND I’LL BE HERE ALL WEEK!
ENJOY YOUR DINNER FOLKS! YOU’VE BEEN WONDERFUL!
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Yikes!
Sorry I haven’t touched this in a few days (because all of you are definitely super invested at this point, right?), It’s been a super busy week or two and I haven’t really been able to go near the internet for risk of getting totally sucked down into the intertubes and never getting anything done. Anyways, the good news is that I should be back on in the next couple of days and in three weeks or so will be headed off to Kyrgyzstan for five months.
Which means that there will be good updates and photos and neat things of genuine interest in addition to uh, youtube videos. Although there will still definitely be youtube videos. Because I love youtube videos.
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guys he is an actual artist
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Foxygen - Take the Kids Off Broadway
Here’s your haunted house soundtrack if your haunted house theme is “ramshackle time travelling troubadour shack that seems like it’s about to fall over but is actually kinda gorgeous once you really get in there and just live for a bit” which I realize is not exactly a standard haunted house theme but maybe it’s one that would get a decent bit of traffic if you served some craft-brewed beer and required bow ties and/or suspenders. Which is to say, this is TARDIS music right here. It is bigger on the inside and exists in multiple places and time periods all at the same time. Of course it’s associated with madman/genius/wolfman Richard Swift. Download it now before you hear a tarted-up, watered down version playing at Starbucks next summer.
hey, well check that out.
tumblr’s neat guys!
