Georgia Pok Guy

Why does Ben Fold’s “Kylie From Connecticut” remind me of a heaping bowl of staple sauce?

For some reason this looks like some bizarre chimera of the Eye of Sauron and a Shinto torii gate…

The nesia, from the Greek nesos (νῆσος), meaning island, is a unit of measure for the number of ridiculously large stone coins in a certain area.  Historically, the unit was defined in relation to micronesia, which is 10^-6 nesia.  One nesia is equivalent to 6.8 * 10^9 ridiculously large stone coins scattered over an area of 3.114 * 10^9 square kilometers.  The symbol for nesia is n (never capital N).

SI prefixes are often employed to denote decimal multiples and submultiples of the nesia, as follows:

• 10^24 n - yottanesia: a wicked large number of ridiculously large stone coins over an equally wicked large area
• 10^21 n - zettanesia
• 10^18 n - exanesia
• 10^15 n - petanesia
• 10^12 n - teranesia
• 10^9 n - giganesia: not to be confused with a famous kaiju villain from the 1960s
• 10^6 n - meganesia: a prominent example is the Meganesia planetary system, the planets of which are speculated to be covered in ridiculously large stone coins
• 10^3 n - kilonesia
• 10^2 n - hectonesia
• 10^1 n - decanesia
• 10^-1 n - decinesia: approximately the land area of Earth, with one ridiculously large stone coin per 10 people.
• 10^-2 n - centinesia: think Africa covered in 68 million giant stone coins
• 10^-3 n - millinesia: approximately equivalent to the area of India; fun fact, India is currently working on creating 6,800,000 ridiculously large stone coins to meet the criteria of being approximately 1 millinesia
• 10^-6 n - micronesia: a prominent example is Polynesia
• 10^-9 n - nanonesia: Gibraltar can be approximated as 2 nanonesia after the eccentric English adventurer, Sir Cecil Raffles, brought 7 ridiculously large stone coins to the territory in 1802
• 10^-12 n - piconesia
• 10^-15 n - femtonesia
• 10^-18 n - attonesia: the number of ridiculously large stone coins that can fit on the head of a pin
• 10^-21 n - zeptonesia
• 10^-24 n - yoctonesia: along with the other nesia brother and sister, Wakko and Dot

Along with the SI prefixes, there are a number of non-SI units expressed in nesias:

• Indonesia: approximately 6 * 10^-4 nesia
• Melanesia: approximately 3 * 10^-4 nesia

See also:

• fiche
• phone
• soft

This weekend I started, in earnest, the effort to tidy up my room in preparation for a visit by the illustrious Catalina.  My labors have borne some fruit, as one no longer needs to perform complex acrobatics in order to traverse the floor.  And in this process I came face-to-face with a truism of putting one’s effects in order: that, invariably, one will run across something of interest, forgotten in the intervening days since its initial placement.  One such item that I found today is a receipt from Paradise Bakery & Cafe, which, by the way, has the most delicious cookies.  Like, orgasmically good.  What strikes me most is that I purchased two cookies for $1.35, which seems like a steal in this day and age.  I just wish they had locations in the Old Line State, although it does give me further incentive to visit Indy.

I got accepted into Georgia Tech!  Now, if I play my cards right, I will have to change the name of this blog to “Georgia Pok Guy.”  You can expect to read about my trials and tribulations as I whine about classes and tests and all the other bullshit I was freed from by working (of course, working has it’s own unique breed of bullshit, which can be a lot more frustrating).  Still, I am really excited by the prospect of studying again, and not feeling like my brain is atrophying…