measuring cell stress (literally how much you can deform a cell) as a factor that can influence its development is a bit of a hot crossover field in Physics and Biology atm

So I was reading up about it a little, and apparently the lady did get some kind of spoken agreement from the priest that she could restore it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

"(The) priest knew it! He did! How could you do something like that without permission? He knew it!"

and the priest then washed his hands of her once she botched it.

That being said, the piece is getting so much attention that the little church is raking in donations, and the woman is now sueing for a piece of the pie:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/09/20/161466361/woman-who-ruined-fresco-of-jesus-now-wants-to-be-paid

In a war, the birds would side with the crocodiles. I'm calling it.

A space ship descends and lands outside my door, and and a benevolent Alien pops out and hands me a 512 MB USB stick.

"I crafted this for your species, and made sure it's compatible with your hardware standards. It contains the sum total knowledge of all life in the universe and can be used to accelerate your species to the next plane of existence."

I thank him tearfully and he departs with a warm smile, ascending back up into the soon-to-be-knowable cosmos from when he came.

I plug the stick into my machine, and check out the directory. Inside are two files:

 105 MB   knowledge.tar.piidx
 328 KB   README.txt

I open up the readme file to learn more about the PIIDX file format so that I can uncompress the sum total knowledge of all existence. General gist:

• Uses a compression algorithm with an infinite dictionary based on prime numbers
• Uses a storage/retrieval algorithm based on the digits of Pi

Realise quickly that the file will never be opened in my lifetime

surprise.

yeah but it's way besides the point, no?

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/spelling/

Reminds me of this Perry Fellowship Bible strip

I remember weighing up either getting the iPhone at the time, the Nexus One, and the Nokia N900. It was a close call between the Nexus and the Nokia, mostly because I wanted those sweet sweet Android apps that everyone had, but ultimately I went with the N900 and it changed my life.

I could write my own Python on the train, I learned C and C++ over the course of a long car trip, and even started writing my own Apps on the device itself. Can you imagine that? On-device app development? In any language you want? It was unheard of at the time, and is relatively unheard of even now.

Isnt heart hockey that weird Aztec game that sacrificed the winners?

A human on a leash walks past another human on a leash. They lock eyes on their t-shirts.

"Team Jacob sucks!"
"No, Team Edward sucks harder!"
"Jacob sucks the most!"
"Edward was sucking before Jacob was even born!"
"Jacob sucks more in a single year than Edward sucks in several extended lifetimes!"
"Edward sucks full time though, whereas Jacob only sucks part-time!"
... etc

House hunting. I've brought a net and a rifle, and need nothing else other than bait. Luckily I know what houses hunger for: money. I've thrown a pile of into the road, and now I wait with abated breath for a rogue house to spring my dastardly trap and take the bait. I can practically taste that Victorian brick.

Little Greg Spider
Slept on a cider,
Dreaming of flies and babes.

Along came a man,
Who bit off half his can,
And now Greg files taxes for a wage.