2012-11-23 - 11:03 a.m.

thanksgiving in a strangers' home.

as people came to the happy realization that such topics were of general interest, the conversation turned to bose-einstein condensates. my particular friend was entertaining a toddler with the toy where you fit plastic shapes into a bucket through the holes in the lid, but the baby became bored and wandered off. he continued to dump and fill the baby's toy like a very large toddler himself, all the while asking questions about stochastic calculus.

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