hello, my name is asteroid

But my friends call me 2102 DA14. Or D-troid for short. Because I'm cool like that.

Okay, I'm not really an asteroid. I'm me. But it would be totally cool if I could be an asteroid! And do asteroid-y things! Like...orbit stuff...in space.

So on Friday, D-troid will fly by Earth. Really, really close. Closer than the satellites that help us find directions and watch cartoons and stuff!

The closest moment will be at 2:26pm on February 15. 17,200 miles away. (That's 27,680 kilometers). A satellite is about 22,000 miles above the Earth.

This asteroid is 150-feet wide. About half the size of a football field. I hope that comparison helps. I have no idea what a football field looks like. I imagine a football field to have mountains and deserts and desserts and stairs. I'm not a big fan of stairs, so I don't really pay attention.

Luckily, this asteroid won't hit any football fields. But if that was a fear, I know how to get rid of it.

My triangle spaceship.

It doesn't take turns very well, but it spins great. And if I jet forward a little, I can spin it again. Then I go "pew pew pew" and blow up asteroids.

Sometimes flying saucers get in my way. I take care of them too. I'm a ruthless triangle.

Also, Ruthless Triangle would be a great name for a band. And a great name for a super secret space program to destroy asteroids. Which it may or may not be. I'm not at liberty to say. Because I keep good secrets.

But just a heads up, if you see a flying isosceles, get out of the way.

I'm off to catch an asteroid.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj

the bad shape of a chip

Chips are great. But there's a problem with some of them. They are triangles.

Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE me some triangles. Well, I love scalene and equilateral. Isosceles always stands there like it's better than everyone else. Whatever isosceles, we know you have two angles and sides equal. Everybody is SO impressed.

The problem with a snack-type chip being a triangle is the mouth entrance. See, you have to get your mouth SUPER wide to get the whole chip in! They tease you by making one end so small and ready to be eaten, but then the other end is HUGE and scrapes the sides of your mouth!

It's torture! I'm sure this happens to you, too!

If you try to break it into smaller pieces, it becomes a crumbly mess! Chip pieces are everywhere! It's like the apocachips!

Life is very complicated. So, to make it easier, I buy the small chips that are squarish.

Or gummy bears. Because they are small and chewy.

I wonder if they can make gummy chips? Or chippy bears? Some sort of bear/chip mutation that would be easy to eat but taste like a chip!

I feel like I talk about food a lot.

Maybe I should talk about something else.

How about those (insert sports team here)? Yeah...that was something!

Okay...food is more interesting.

I'm off to tri my angle.

Enjoy Everything.

-dj