#alternative spelling

[pickle-the-lad]

Alternative spellings for void!

If you don't know: This word in English speaking countries, is used to state that information on a document is false. Even though you can explain to officials but that is in fact your name. Machines to scan information in, will read void and stop processing it.

So, here some alternative spellings for legal paperwork:

Voide

Voidd

Voēd

Voyd

Voəid

Vůid

Våid

Vøid

Phoid

Phoyd

Foid

Foyd

I hope all the Voids out there enjoys this list✨️

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

Fiction writers,

If you ever feel insecure about a name choice, remember big-time publisher DC’s “alternative” spelling:

[jzweibs]

lundehundenoodledoodleklubb

Emailed this to myself today, with the subject line, "let's get a lundehund." I almost wrote "lundehunde," but corrected myself. Boy though, if I had one, I'd throw the extra e in. Might even join the Lundehund Klubb. Barring that, I think I'd still like to belong to some sort of capital-K, double-b Klubb. Wouldn't you?

One Klubb I probably couldn't hack it in would be Engineer Klubb. But I'd like to read their minutes from time to time. Today I internet-moseyed onto the University Of Illinois department of Engineering blog. There I found a nice, clear explanation of "adaptive optics," a developing technology potentially capable of rendering very high-resolution images. It does so not by adding lenses and mirrors to compensate for aberrations in the other lenses, etc.; but by using software to identify and acount for those aberrations--after the image is captured. This can allow the imaging of tissues in vivo with significantly greater detail than is possible now. According to the post, "the ability to correct data post-acquisition allows the researchers to develop microscope systems that maximize light collection instead of worrying about minimizing aberrations. This could lead to better data for better image rendering." Neat.

In the same place, I found a post which helped me to understand atomic force microscopy (and its optical limitations in biological tissues--since they must be immersed in liquid, but liquid responds to mechanical vibrations in optically disastrous ways). The subject of this article is an innovation involving a nanoneedle on an apparatus which hovers above the liquid sample.

Nanoneedles are really only important here because today I also found out (was reminded?) that they sell needlenoodles at the Space Needle! I love intricate pasta (eg, Spongebob Kraft Macaroni--which please note Amazon suggests pairing with Spam. A stern look upon you, Amazon). I would eat a bowlful of cartoon- or state- or monument-shaped noodles any day. All that surface area makes them extra tasty (as an Engineer would say). The makers of needlenoodles call them "Space Noodles"--I guess needlenoodles sounds dangerous. I wonder if they buy noodle-molds (how are shape-noodles made?) from the same people who make penis-shaped noodles (which I saw on my first Adult Odyssey jaunt at 18)? Maybe I'll look up shape-noodle manufacture (an at-home adaptation, perhaps?), tomorrow. For now, I'ma plant some seeds and do some pushups fer warmth.

In this fabulous scarfhat. (PS: Thanks Animal Mother! I love you!)