For those who don't run with the painting analysis crowd, what do you do with your free time and collection of oil based paints?  Now, for those who share my zest for all things painty, Cornell scientists recently got to use the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, or CHESS.  (That's a playful little nickname, don't you think?  Oooh, I wish I knew how to play checkers!  Then I suppose I'd want to learn chess too.  But before all those I guess I should learn to play Go Fish.  After I learn to read, of course.)

Basically, CHESS is a big, crazy awesome x-ray machine that Cornell owns and , apparently, the best use the institution has for this little, massively espensive item is looking at paintings to see what's painted underneath them.  Now I know, I care deeply about what a painter painted on top of because he was too cheap to buy multiple canvases, but is this really the best use of funds?

By the way, I don't mean to give it away, but underneath the painting is the stolen one that Rene Russo has been looking for this whole time.  Oh, that Pierce Brosnan; he just wanted the thrill of the hunt.  I guess I can relate.  I mean, I haven't felt a real rush since I personally won the Crusades in the name of my own religion, Christianity.  Yep, I'm Christ.

PS:  I don't care enough to actually mention the painting.  If it's really awesome, I apologize.

PPS: I don't know the original versions of remade films; I figure they wouldn't remake it if it weren't better, right? (Some prime examples include Psycho, Planet of the Apes, the Thomas Crown Affair  [see above if you missed the joke] and the Longest Yard, all of which made me cry at least once.  But I always chop onions when I watch movies, so maybe I'm a bad measure.)