Cosmic Sitcom™

A glorious sunlit path around Larsen Lake in Bellevue, Wash.

Nikki Graziano is a photographer who’s also into math. Courtesy of Wired.com, we learn how the graphs of mathematical functions are mirrored in nature. Graziano, a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, “overlays graphs and their corresponding equations onto her carefully composed photos,” Wired says. To her, it’s simply a demonstration of “how awesome math is.”

From a bulletin board for the Communication and Media program at the University of Minnesota. The funny part is that the “B.S.” bit was taped onto the Scientific & Technical Communication label — someone went out of their way to let you know.

MOUNDS VIEW, Minn. — Snow day means watching movies in my family. Besides our excursion this morning for the first showing of Sherlock Homes (rollicking good fun), we watched Love Actually, one of my favorite movies, and The Holiday. Shot with my iPhone using the Photoshop app.

My geek pals and I welcomed 2006 with a daylong (and it was a long day!) screening of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy in the living room of my loft apartment in Santa Cruz, Calif. I loved that apartment.

This photo was taken by my friend Ernie. It’s an ice-sculpted polar bear melting outside the pavilion set up by the World Wildlife Fund at the recent Copenhagen climate summit to portray global warming’s effect on the polar bear habitat.

I took this picture (unretouched) with my iPhone outside Blue C Sushi in Seattle’s University Village. I found the light bouncing off the blue stones mesmerizing.

From “The 30 Creepiest Vegetables on Earth” at the Environmental Graffiti blog is this entry — made entirely of terrestrial veggies — that explains why eggplants creep me out so much.

Photo by The Associated Press. Supersonic plumes of water jet out from a moon of Saturn in this stunning shot from the Cassini probe.

Fishies at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Calif., courtesy of my pal Spencer Lindsay.