as any reader can gather, i have not been blogging as of late (read: for a month or two). the reasons amount to many things, the first and foremost being that i am a busy busy bee. though with march 31st fast approaching i have hung up a few spurs and given myself free time to spend with certain people, including my cat chuck. but, i digress.

among one of my time-suckers is a show that i’m happily contibuting my likeness to entitled Ka-Baam!! it’s an improvised comic book that’s being performed at the BLB every thursday in january at 7:00pm, with a special late show on feb 5th, at 10:00pm. learn more here, buy tickets here, then watch a video heavily featuiring my giggling puss below.

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in an unrelated note, i will now explain the science behind Non-Newtonian Fluids.

chances are that many of you have had fun with a Non-Newtonian fluid in your lifetime, however you may not have known it at the time. probably because you were too busy being 5 and enjoying this weird, white fluidy-chalk that your parent/guardian/babysitter/captor whipped up for you to play with. that’s right; cornstarch and water create a Non-Newtonian fluid (often called oobleck)

in scientific terms the shear stress and strain rate in any Newtonian liquid/fluid is linear, meaning the volume and viscosity are perportionate; they opperate in synch with each other. however, with a Non-Newtonian fluid, the shear stress and strain rate operate independently of one another. there can be many factors that determine how they react: time, force, temperature, etc.

check this shit out:

amazing.