Black Holes: They don't suck

We went to Hamden today, which is just outside of New Haven to visit one of Liz's college friends, Steve, and his wife Kristen. Tiff was also there and we went to the Yale Peabody Museum for a couple of hours. It was fun - they had a black hole exhibit. That's where I learned that black holes don't suck. Apparently you more fall into them if you get too close.

Other exhibits included the dinosaurs in the Great Hall, the mammal exhibit, meteorites and the birds of Connecticut. The birds were cool - every bird in Connecticut was represented (in stuffed form). I liked looking at the raptors. They also had skeletons for saber-tooth cats, prehistoric "homo" specimens and dinosaurs. I found out that the dinosaurs were skilled surgeons. When a human badly breaks a leg they would have a metal rod inserted in there to help the healing. There was a dinosaur specimen that had a big metal beam running through it's entire body, so to be able to insert that must have taken incredible surgical skills - and also metal working knowledge. They also had a massive prehistoric turtle skeleton.

We got kicked out of the museum at closing time, then went and had some Japanese food for dinner with Tiff.

Also, I must tell everyone about a cool movie we saw this week. Both Liz and I enjoyed it immensely - it is up there with the best movies I have seen this year. It was Scott Pilgrim vs the World. It was really cool. To me it seemed like a mixture between a movie, video game and comic book. I liked the style, the way people played their parts, the story and even the Universal logo and fanfare in 8-bit form.

One of the stars was Keiran Culkin - yep, Fuller from Home Alone. When the movie first started I said to Liz "I know that's Keiran Culkin, but he looks like someone else to me..." It took me almost the entire movie, but I finally announced to Liz "Why the hell does Keiran Culkin look like Tobey Maguire?!?!"

If you haven't seen it, you should - Scott Pilgrim vs the World.