Thankful Thursday (Special Newtonmas edition)

[mdlbear]

Today is Isaac Newton's Birthday, so I'd like to start by wishing you all a very Heavy Newtonmas. I am thankful for...

• Friction, and in particular socks with grippy bottoms for wearing around the house.
• Gravity, without which those socks wouldn't work. (Neither would a lot of other things, of course. I'm also looking for a little levity, and not finding nearly enough.)
• The reason for the season -- axial tilt. Also, having just about the right amount of it. (Uranus has way too much!)
• Calculus -- integral, differential, and lambda.
• Number systems in which infinitesimals are, um..., well-defined. I guess you can't say "real", can you?
• Choice.
• Having slightly less mass than I did last year. (Very slightly, but I'll take what I can get.) Good drugs.

Comments

[freyjaw]

God jul og godt nytt år!

We have several pairs of those slipper socks. All three of us have been hospitalized this year, and PT won't get us walking without them. Falling in a hospital is bad form, after all. (Damn, I was the least sick in the hospital, despite being in PCU, and that I think is because of the AFib.)

[gingicat]

So long as the levity is only figurative :)